Aimee Semple McPherson's secretary Emma Shaffer, Roberta Semple, and Rolf McPherson, Los Angeles, 1926

Title: Aimee Semple McPherson's secretary Emma Shaffer, Roberta Semple, and Rolf McPherson, Los Angeles, 1926
Date Created: June 2, 1926
Date: 1926-06-02
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Roberta and Rolf stand on either side of an unsmiling Ms. Schaffer.
Minnie Kennedy protects her grandson Rolf from reporters after his return from Yolo county.
Photograph appears with the article, "M'Pherson Boy Shielded," Los Angeles Times, 03 June 1926: A1.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: McPherson, Roberta & Robert &, Rolf x
Text from newspaper caption: Wearing His First Pair of Long Trousers, his last present from his mother, Rolf McPherson, 11-year-old son of Aimee Semple McPherson, arrived in Los Angeles yesterday from a ranch in Yolo county. The boy says he believes his mother died in the Pacific Ocean. Above, Rolf, Emma Schaffer and Roberta Semple, his half-sister. (Times photo.)
Handwritten on negative: Roberta Semple Emma Shafer Rolf Mc Pherson

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Shaffer, Emma
Salter, Roberta Semple, 1910-2007
McPherson, Rolf Kennedy, 1913-2009
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Siblings--American--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_6340
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002cwj7n
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Rights Country: US
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