cover image: Unfurling flag at Uzuakoli sports, Nigeria, 1924

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Unfurling flag at Uzuakoli sports, Nigeria, 1924

Black and white photograph showing the unfurling of a flag at a sports day at Uzuakoli mission station, run by the Primitive Methodist Missionary Society. The flag is a Union Flag, representing the United Kingdom. A group of Nigerian boys watch the flag raising, and male European missionaries stand around the flag. This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey, Matron of the Ama Achara Methodist Hospital, also administered by the Primitive Methodist Missionary Society.
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Authors

Emily Godfrey

Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-77832
Date published
1919/1929
Dates
1919/1929
Format
Black-and-white photographs
Place Discussed
Abia Africa Nigeria Uzuakoli educational facilities: Uzuakoli Institute
Provider
California Digital Library
Published in
Nigeria
Reference
IMP-CSCNWW20-1-2-3.tif
Rights
Centre for the Study of World Christianity Contact the repository for details. The University of Edinburgh School of Divinity, New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh EH1 2LX, United Kingdom divinity-CSWC@ed.ac.uk http://www.cswc.div.ed.ac.uk/collections/
Source
Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/628ceb97c662492e0bf2bd66be127013

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