Large crowd gathers on Venice Beach during a search for the missing Aimee Semple McPherson, Los Angeles, 1926

Item Overview

Title

Large crowd gathers on Venice Beach during a search for the missing Aimee Semple McPherson, Los Angeles, 1926

Date Created

[circa May 19, 1926]

Date

1926-05-19

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Notes

Description

This photograph is similar to images appearing with the articles, "DETECTIVES INQUIRE INTO EVANGELIST'S DROWNING: Burns Operatives Enter Case While Searchers Vainly Seek Body of Aimee Semple McPherson," Los Angeles Times, 20 May 1926: 1, and “FAITHFUL CLING TO WANING HOPE: Men and Women Followers of Mrs. McPherson Grouped on Sands at Venice Pray That Leader Will Return to Them,” Los Angeles Times, 20 May 1926: 2
A crowd of dozens gathers on Venice Beach. In the foreground, a man stands along the left edge and faces right. Behind him, the crowd stretches back and across the image. A few people at right and center lounge on the beach while most behind them stand. The majority of onlookers face towards the right and almost all wear jackets at the beach.
Similar photographs of the same event appear with the newspaper caption, "Crowds Offer Prayer at Scene of Bathing Tragedy Picture shows part of the throng that [flocked?] to Venice beach yesterday while police and life guards searched in vain to recover body of Aimee Semple McPherson, believed victim of sea while swimming Tuesday afternoon. Insert shows Mrs. McPherson, pastor of Angelus Temple, victim of tragedy," Los Angeles Times, 20 May 1926: 2
This photograph is similar to images appearing as part of panoramic photograph titled, "Thousands of Evangelist's Followers Throng Beach While Searchers Vainly Drag Sea for Body of Temple," Los Angeles Times, 20 May 1926: 2

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: MCPHERSON, AIMEE SEMPLE [handwritten:] with Ormiston & beach scenes 1

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs
cellulose nitrate film

Names

McPherson, Aimee Semple, 1890-1944

Location

Venice (Los Angeles, Calif.)

Longitude

33.984378

Latitude

-118.473388

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Missing persons--California--Los Angeles
Crowds--California--Los Angeles
Beaches--California--Venice