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Eaton, Minnie Emily (1866-1954) Archive of Letters & Two Photo Albums, 1894-1935. Including approximately thirty-seven autograph letters signed by Eaton and addressed to family members, the vast majority addressed to her sister Mabel Love Eaton Kent (1876-1954) in Los Angeles, most consisting of several pages; approximately nineteen letters addressed to Eaton from others; and two photo albums compiled by Eaton, each containing approximately 100 original black-and-white photographs of locations in the Holy Land/Middle East, including images of Jordan, Damascus, Beirut, Syria, Nazareth, Gaza, the Valley of Elah, Jerusalem, Casablanca, Algeria, Cairo, and other places, including images of landscapes, ruins, and local people; with a few images of family members in Los Angeles inserted, along with one image of Rotifunk; with a small group of other related ephemeral material.
Eaton first went to West Africa to serve as a missionary in 1894. Just after her first return to the States in 1898, all remaining members of the missionary were killed in an uprising of indigenous people. She returned to her work overseas despite the danger in 1900, and served for a total of forty-four years, based primarily at the Tiama Mission in Sierra Leone. Some of her received correspondence includes letters from her niece Serena M. Hodges, and friend Anna M. Adams, both of whom were serving as missionaries in Jerusalem at the Shemariah Mission.
