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Title |
Nurse Alim and Nurse Nuyw, Ituk Mbam, Nigeria, 1933 |
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Description |
Black and white photograph of two nurses at the general hospital at Ituk Mbam, east Nigeria, run by the Methodist Missionary Society, one of four general hospitals that they administered in the region. Nurse Alim, a female nurse, wears a white dress and head-scarf, and a male nurse, Nurse Nuyw, wears a white shirt and apron. A man stands next to him in a dark robe. Twin babies lie in a cot at the centre of the picture. Twin babies were traditionally considered an ill-omen in Nigerian folk belief, and were often abandoned to die. The caption to this image reads: "Nurse Alim & Nurse Nuyw with the Father, and twin babies born at Ituk Mbam, 1933." This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey, Matron of the Ama Achara Methodist Hospital, also run by the Methodist Missionary Society. |
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Subject (genre) |
group portraits |
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Subject (lcsh) |
Nurses
Hospitals
Infants
Fathers |
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Subject (unesco) |
Health services
Nursing
Missionary work |
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Subject (corporate name) |
Primitive Methodist Missionary Society; Methodist Missionary Society |
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Geographic subject |
medical facilities: Ituk Mbam Hospital |
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Geographic subject (city or populated place) |
Ituk Mbam |
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Geographic subject (state) |
Uyo |
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Geographic subject (country) |
Nigeria |
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Geographic subject (continent) |
Africa |
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Coverage date |
1928/1938 |
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Photographer |
Emily Godfrey |
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Publisher (of the digital version) |
University of Southern California. Libraries |
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Date created |
1928/1938 |
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Format (aacr2) |
black-and-white photographs |
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Format (aat) |
black-and-white photographs |
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Part of collection |
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960 |
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Part of subcollection |
Photographs from the Centre for the Study of World Christianity, University of Edinburgh, U.K., ca.1900-ca.1940s |
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Part of series |
Emily Godfrey collection
Box 1
First book of photographs (CSCNWW20-1-1) |
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File |
CSCNWW20/1/1/149 |
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Rights |
Contact the repository for details. |
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Physical access |
http://www.cswc.div.ed.ac.uk/collections/ |
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Repository name |
Centre for the Study of World Christianity |
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Repository address |
The University of Edinburgh School of Divinity, New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh EH1 2LX, United Kingdom |
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Repository email |
divinity-CSWC@ed.ac.uk |
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Filename |
IMP-CSCNWW20-1-1-149.tif |
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Archival file |
Volume1/IMP-CSCNWW20-1-1-149.tif |
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
