cover image: Female patient and baby, Nigeria, ca. 1938

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Female patient and baby, Nigeria, ca. 1938

Black and white photograph showing a Nigerian woman and her baby at the hospital at Ama Achara run by the Methodist Missionary Society. The woman wears a white smock and sits on a wooden recliner holding a small baby. An umbrella has been placed on the recliner to shade her and the baby from the heat, since she sits on the hospital's veranda. 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-c123-77926
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-CSCNWW20-1-5-40.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/23b442017cfd3e2ba184440455aed65e

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