Black and white photograph showing three Nigerian nurses working at the leper colony in Uzuakoli, southeast Nigeria, run by the Primitive Methodist Missionary Society. The nurses all suffer from leprosy. They are photographed next to the leper colony bell. The caption to this image reads: "Three nurses (Lepers.)" 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 run by the Primitive Methodist Missionary Society.
Authors
- Collection
- International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-77758
- Date published
- 1927/1937
- Dates
- 1927/1937
- Format
- Black-and-white photographs
- Place Discussed
- Abia Africa Nigeria Uzuakoli medical facilities: Uzuakoli Leper Colony
- Provider
- California Digital Library
- Published in
- Nigeria
- Reference
- IMP-CSCNWW20-1-1-107.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/5e1dffb7a1da04ddf5c709b035af5692
