Object Details
- Local Numbers
- P 2 NIG 21.3 EE 59
- General
- Title is provided by EEPA staff based on photographer's notes.
- Local Note
- 58482 1 29
- Frame value is 12.
- Slide No. P 2 NIG 21.3 EE 59
- Photographer
- Elisofon, Eliot
- Collection Photographer
- Elisofon, Eliot
- Place
- Africa
- Nigeria
- Topic
- Medicine
- Mod. architecture/cityscape -- Photographs
- Photographer
- Elisofon, Eliot
- See more items in
- Eliot Elisofon Field collection
- Eliot Elisofon Field collection / Nigeria
- Extent
- 1 Slides (photographs) (col.)
- Date
- 1959
- Archival Repository
- Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
- Identifier
- EEPA.1973-001, Item EEPA EECL 12884
- Type
- Archival materials
- Slides (photographs)
- Color slides
- Collection Citation
- Eliot Elisofon Field Collection, EEPA 1973-001, Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution
- Collection Rights
- Permission to reproduce images from the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives must be obtained in advance. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.
- Genre/Form
- Color slides
- Scope and Contents
- Original title reads, "Operation performed at Lagos General Hospital. The surgeon is Dr. Adeiloyejo Majekodunmi, 42, senior gynecological consultant for Lagos General Hospital. He studied medicine at Trinity College, Dublin, graduating in 1941. Dr. Majekodunmi is transplanting a woman's patient because of a childbirth injury. Some of the nurses are student nurses. Opposite the surgeon is Dr. Abimbola Awoliyi, who graduated in 1946 from the Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, and was the first woman doctor from Nigeria. The anaesthetist is Dr. Mohamed Aziz, from India." [Elisofon field notes, August 1959-December 1959]
- This photograph was taken when Eliot Elisofon was on assignment for Life magazine and traveled to Africa from August 18, 1959 to December 20, 1959.
- Collection Restrictions
- Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
- Record ID
- ebl-1536870822481-1536871015780-3
