Black and white photograph featuring an infant cared for by the Methodist Missionary Society hospital in southeast Nigeria. She stands in a checked smock in the hospital grounds. The child is Miriam Wakefield, who was brought to the hospital at five months old as an unwanted twin baby in 1923. This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey, Matron of the Ama Achara Methodist Hospital.
Authors
- Collection
- International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-77885
- Date published
- 1920/1930
- Dates
- 1920/1930
- 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-CSCNWW20-1-4-47.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/22cc019aa2f861bde927916783e05831
