Scrapbook Created by Elisabeth Elliot
Scrapbook Created by Elisabeth Elliot
- Collection ID
- OBJ.000425.1-.19
- Type
- Object
- Date
- 1952-1956
- Geography
- United States
- Language
- English
- Medium
- Photographs on Paper
- Dimensions
- 14.6 × 10 × 1.2 in. (37 × 25.3 × 3 cm)
- Exhibit Location
- Not on View
This scrapbook belonged to Christian author and speaker Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015), who was a missionary to the Waodäni people of Ecuador in the 1950s with her husband, Jim Elliot. Elisabeth chose to stay and live with the tribe after a Waodäni hunting party killed Jim and four other missionaries in 1956. She returned to the United States in 1963. This scrapbook records Elisabeth and Jim’s life in Ecuador from 1952–1956, including their engagement and wedding.
Created between 1952–1956 by Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015); Via death in 2015 to Lars Gren, Little Rock, Arkansas; Donated in 2020 to Museum of the Bible, Washington, DC.
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