cover image: Mother and baby, Ituk Mbam, Nigeria,, ca. 1933

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Mother and baby, Ituk Mbam, Nigeria,, ca. 1933

Black and white photograph featuring a Nigerian mother sitting on a wooden chair holding a small baby. She sits in the grounds of the general hospital run at Ituk Mbam in east Nigeria, a facility run by the Methodist Missionary Society. The caption to the image reads: "Mother & Baby (Bura case) Ituk Mbam." 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-c123-77786
Date published
1928/1938
Dates
1928/1938
Format
Black-and-white photographs
Place Discussed
Africa Ituk Mbam Nigeria Uyo medical facilities: Ituk Mbam Hospital
Provider
California Digital Library
Published in
Nigeria
Reference
IMP-CSCNWW20-1-1-153.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/02e670371f57de58ea1bbdcf5727440d

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