cover image: Small girl with swollen belly, Nigeria, ca. 1938

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Small girl with swollen belly, Nigeria, ca. 1938

Black and white photograph showing a small girl standing on a dust road in Nigeria. She is naked, and carries a magazine. Her belly is quite swollen, possibly from an infectious disease. This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey, Matron of the Ama Achara Methodist Hospital, an institution run by the Methodist Missionary Society in southeast Nigeria.
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Authors

Emily Godfrey

Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-77918
Date published
1933/1943
Dates
1933/1943
Format
Black-and-white photographs
Place Discussed
Abia Africa Nigeria populated places
Provider
California Digital Library
Published in
Nigeria
Reference
IMP-CSCNWW20-1-5-34.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/0124bf83aa92e46a098dabcc918026b2

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