cover image: Hospital staff at Ama Achara, Nigeria, ca. 1938

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Hospital staff at Ama Achara, Nigeria, ca. 1938

Black and white photograph of a group of staff working at the Ama Achara hospital run by the Methodist Missionary Society in southeast Nigeria. The group is made up of smartly dressed Nigerian men and women, and one European female missionary. Only one Nigerian man wears national traditional dress, with the other Nigerian staff members wearing Western style clothes. 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-c123-77922
Date published
1933/1943
Dates
1933/1943
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-CSCNWW20-1-5-36.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/a8e50c69942879477719f2a83df4c74c

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