cover image: Anniversary at mission hall, Nigeria, 1938

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Anniversary at mission hall, Nigeria, 1938

Black and white photograph showing a crowd at an anniversary at the mission hall of the Methodist Missionary Society in 1938. The crowd is mostly made up of women, some of whom cover their heads from the sun using umbrellas. This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey, Matron of the Ama Achara Methodist Hospital, a general hospital 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-c123-77906
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-CSCNWW20-1-4-141.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/4c3768210b99657f006eb55c4f90eaf5

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