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Elizabeth M. Nielson scrapbook of South Pacific tour and New Zealand temple dedication

 Item — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 8320

Scope and Contents

Scrapbook contains materials pertaining to the New Zealand Missionary Society Temple Dedication tour. The scrapbook was created to memorialize Nielson's trip to see the New Zealand Temple dedication, which included pre-travel correspondence, itineraries, Pan American certificates of travel, hotel and restaurant pamphlets, country magazines, and newspaper articles. Also loosely included are pamphlets from the Tribute to the Tabernacle, June 1978, and the Jordan River Temple dedication, June 1979. Materials date from between 1957 and 1979.

Dates

  • 1957-1979

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

Open for public research.

Conditions Governing Use

It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances. Permission to publish material from Elizabeth M. Nielson scrapbook of South Pacific tour and New Zealand temple dedication must be obtained from the Supervisor of Reference Services and/or the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Board of Curators.

Biographical History

Elizabeth M. Nielson (1905-1995) was a Mormon school teacher and genealogist in Utah.

Elizabeth Brazier Mitchell was born in Salt Lake City, Utah on April 28, 1905 to parents Joseph and Suzan Liberta Brazier Mitchell. She graduated from Granite High School and the University of Utah, then taught school in the Granite and Salt Lake School Districts and at the Kelsey Academy in Kelsey, Texas. She served as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Central States and Texas. She also served in several organizations within the Church, and was especially interested in genealogy. In 1958, she joined with the New Zealand Missionary Society Temple Dedication Tour, which also traveled to Hawaii and Fiji. On August 19, 1964, she married Ernest Eugene Nielson in Salt Lake City, Utah, and moved with him to Richfield and Manti, Utah until his death on May 14, 1973. At that time, she returned to Salt Lake City, and then to the suburb of Holliday, where she was active in several civic and service organizations. She died on October 27, 1995 in Holladay, Utah.

Extent

1 oversize box (2 linear ft.)

Language of Materials

English

Custodial History

Item was transferred to the repository in 2013. No other information about its history is known.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Transferred; Special Collections; 2013.

Appraisal

Utah and the American West and LDS cultural, social, and religious history (20th century Western & Mormon Manuscripts collection development policy, 5.VII, 2007).

Processing Information

Processed; Margaret Weddle; 2013.

Title
Register of Elizabeth M. Nielson scrapbook of South Pacific tour and New Zealand temple dedication
Status
Completed
Author
Margaret Weddle
Date
2013 December 4
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
Finding aid written in English in Latin script.

Repository Details

Part of the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Repository

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