cover image: Cleaning operation, Nigeria, 1934

Cleaning operation, Nigeria, 1934

Black and white photograph showing a group of Nigerian staff cleaning a courtyard and surrounding buildings in a mission compound run by the Methodist Missionary Society at Ovim, Abia state, southeast Nigeria. Women can be seen standing and walking around the courtyard, at the front of which is a large table. 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 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-c123-77751
Date published
1929/1939
Dates
1929/1939
Format
Black-and-white photographs
Place Discussed
Abia Africa Nigeria Ovim medical facilities
Provider
California Digital Library
Published in
Nigeria
Reference
IMP-CSCNWW20-1-1-96.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/3c83a5bb638e84b8e32540004314ce51

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