David and Carol Butler Mission Letters Collection
a collection of letters and photos from American United Methodist missionaries in Algeria
Contents: About the Collection | Tech
About the Collection
David and Carol Butler were American United Methodist missionaries living and working and raising their four sons in north Africa until they retired in 1995, and moved back to United States where they settled down in Tennessee. While in the first 15 years of their careers, from 1961 to 1975, they moved around between Constantine, Algiers, and Tunis, with one year in Hartford, Connecticut and four of them spent in Montreal, Canada, they spent the last 20 years, from 1975 to 1995, in Oran, Algeria.
As a part of their work, they sent letters back to the States with updates on their work and family life, and other thoughts and experiences. This collection contains many of these letters from their time in Oran, along with some photographs.
Technical Credits - CollectionBuilder
This digital collection is built with CollectionBuilder, an open source framework for creating digital collection and exhibit websites that is developed by faculty librarians at the University of Idaho Library following the Lib-Static methodology.
The site started from the CollectionBuilder-GH template which utilizes the static website generator Jekyll and GitHub Pages to build and host digital collections and exhibits.