Woman and baby, Nigeria, ca. 1938

Identifier

http://dp.la/api/items/5bbdb245aaeb389f6031aa6ac75891b6

Title

Woman and baby, Nigeria, ca. 1938

Creator

Emily Godfrey

Date

1933/1943

Description

Black and white photograph showing a woman and a baby in Nigeria. The woman wears traditional dress and holds a small baby in a knitted singlet. This photograph was probably taken at the hospital at Ama Achara in southeast Nigeria, run by the Primitive Methodist Missionary Society. This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey, Matron of the Ama Achara Hospital.

Subject

Portraits
Infants
Women
Hospitals
Missionary work
Health services
Children
Primitive Methodist Missionary Society
Methodist Missionary Society

Source

University of Southern California Libraries

Relation

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/utils/getthumbnail/collection/p15799coll123/id/77930

References

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll123/id/77930

Citation

Emily Godfrey, “Woman and baby, Nigeria, ca. 1938,” Center for Knit and Crochet Digital Repository, accessed September 29, 2026, https://digital.centerforknitandcrochet.org/items/show/7294.

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