Hope Waddell Training Institute, Calabar, Nigeria, ca. 1943

Black and white photograph showing the Hope Waddell Training Institute built by missionaries from the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland in 1895. It was named after the Reverend Hope Masterton Waddell (1804-1895), a Scottish Missionary Society missionary who led the first expedition to Calabar. The vocation training school was the brainchild of Mary Mitchell Slessor (1848-1915), a pioneering missionary of the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland (the United Free Church of Scotland from 1900 to 1930). This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey, Matron of the Ama Achara Methodist Hospital, a facility run by the Methodist Missionary Society in modern Abia state, southeast Nigeria.