cover image: Lock-jaw sufferer with family, Nigeria, ca. 1925

Lock-jaw sufferer with family, Nigeria, ca. 1925

Black and white photograph featuring a Nigerian man sitting in a wooden recliner at the Ama Achara hospital in southeast Nigeria run by the Primitive Methodist Missionary Society. A woman stands next to him in traditional dress, holding a small baby. The man wears trousers and a shirt. The caption to this image reads: "Man in chair - very severe Lock-jaw who recovered." This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey, Matron of the Ama Achara Methodist Hospital.
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Authors

Emily Godfrey

Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-77867
Date published
1920/1930
Dates
1920/1930
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-CSCNWW20-1-3-13.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/8243117224cc608d8d6dc5c415106eed

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