Digital Library - Selected African Holdings

Black and white photograph showing a midwifery clinic in Ukala Ubo, Nigeria. The clinic is stone-built with a thatched roof. A group of Nigerian women stands in front of the …

Black and white photograph showing the mission house at the leper colony at Uzuakoli, run by the Primitive Methodist Missionary Society (later the Methodist Missionary Society.) The house is brick-built, …

Black and white photograph showing Emily Godfrey, Matron of the hospital run by the Methodist Missionary Society in Ama Achara in modern Abia state, southeast Nigeria, between 1921 and 1944. …

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 …

Black and white photograph showing two female missionaries working for the Methodist Missionary Society at their hospital at Ama Achara in southeast Nigeria. They sit on a rug with two …

Tinted lantern slide of drawings made of uli, traditional patterns made on the bodies of Igbo women with dye from the uli plant before marriage and on other special occasions. …

"Häuptlingspaar aus Südpare" ("Chiefly couple from South Pare"). Photograph of an African man and an African woman standing next to each other. The man wears a white kanzu and a …

Portrait photograph of three nurses in smart dress, presumably taken at the hospital run by the Primitive Methodist Missionary Society at Ama Achara, Nigeria. This image comes from a photograph …

Black and white photograph of a group of Nigerian men preparing fufu. Fufu is a staple food in west and central Africa, and is made from boiled starchy vegetables like …

"Voksfest. (Sprecher Miss. Schanz.) ("Public festival. (Speaker Missionary Schanz.)") Photograph of a crowd of African people sitting in the grass. In front of the crowd a European man is standing …