cover image: Mrs Brown, nurse and "clean" babies, leper colony, Nigeria, ca. 1932

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Mrs Brown, nurse and "clean" babies, leper colony, Nigeria, ca. 1932

Black and white photograph showing Mrs Brown, wife of Dr Brown, the missionary doctor at the Uzuakoli Leper Colony, run by the Primitive Methodist Missionary Society in southeast Nigeria. Mrs Brown sits with a Nigerian nurse next to six Nigerian infants sitting on a blanket. The caption to this image reads: "Mrs Brown, Nurse & "clean" babies, Leper Colony, Uzuakoli." 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.
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Authors

Emily Godfrey

Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-77761
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
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/17d7fd28e5ed45f1a85374e762fbac58

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