cover image: European churchyard at Calabar, Nigeria, ca. 1943

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European churchyard at Calabar, Nigeria, ca. 1943

Black and white photograph showing a European churchyard at Calabar, a burial place for European missionaries. The churchyard is filled with stone, carved gravestones and crosses and looks onto a body of water. it is surrounded by greenery. The caption to this image reads: "European Churchyard at Calabar. Cross on right - Miss Annie Dodds." Miss Dodds was a missionary for the Methodist Missionary Society. This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey, Matron of the Ama Achara Methodist Hospital run by the Methodist Missionary Society in modern Abia state, southeast Nigeria.
cemeteries death burial tombs general views

Authors

Emily Godfrey

Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-77952
Date published
1938/1948
Dates
1938/1948
Format
Black-and-white photographs
Place Discussed
Africa Calabar Cross River Nigeria cemeteries
Provider
California Digital Library
Published in
Nigeria
Reference
IMP-CSCNWW20-1-5-89.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/dc3d86dbd699475870ad0f97d08eb7da

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