cover image: Miss Gardner and Baby Johnson, Nigeria, ca. 1934

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Miss Gardner and Baby Johnson, Nigeria, ca. 1934

Black and white photograph showing a missionary of the Methodist Missionary Society (formerly the Primitive Methodist Missionary Society) holding a small child. She wears a patterned dress. The hospital at Ama Achara took in babies (often twin babies) abandoned by their parents. The caption to this photograph reads: "Miss Gardner and Baby Johnson." This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey, Matron of the Ama Achara hospital.
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Authors

Emily Godfrey

Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-77714
Date published
1929/1939
Dates
1929/1939
Format
Black-and-white photographs
Place Discussed
Abia Africa Nigeria Umuahia medical facilities: Methodist Hospital, Ama Achara
Provider
California Digital Library
Published in
Nigeria
Reference
IMP-CSCNWW20-1-1-29.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/e370faaf0e23ef8f3f0bbff08bcf4199

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