Subject: Evangelists--California--Los Angeles / Genre: news photographs / Language: English - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Note addressed to Minnie Kennedy and Mrs. McPherson, 1926

Description:: From the note: "Mrs. Minnie Kennedy or Mrs Aimee Semple McPherson--IMPORTANT"
Date:: [circa 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Envelope addressed to Aimee McPherson, 1926

Description:: Envelope from Bertelson-Groves Co. Surety Bonds.
Date:: 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Telegram related to Aimee Semple McPherson, 1926

Description:: Photograph of telegram received from Mrs. E. Drame? [illegible] for "fifty dollars to be paid to John Anderson at Continental Hotel San Francisco..."
Date:: September 1, 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Letter related to Aimee Semple McPherson, 1926

Description:: From the letter: "My Dear Katherine Joe Harry & Dad, May god bless you all I got your letter and was so blue... I love you all & trying to make some money. I will send you soon as quick as I can..."
Date:: 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Envelope addressed to Lorraine Wiseman, witness in the Aimee Semple McPherson kidnapping case, 1926

Description:: Lorraine r. Wiseman was a witness that provided false testimony in the kidnapping case of Aimee McPherson.
Date:: August 30, 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Aimee Semple McPherson Western Union telegrams to Mrs. E. Frame, 1926

Description:: Some text from first telegram: "Am calling your house by phone at nine-thirty..."
Date:: 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Notes written by Aimee Semple McPherson, [1926]

Description:: In 1926 evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappeared from Venice Beach in California for 5 weeks. Thought to have drowned, she emerged in Mexico, claiming to have been kidnapped. A grand jury investigation indicated that she had actually been staying with a former employee, Kenneth Ormiston. The case against McPherson was finally dismissed.
Date:: 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Letter from Kenneth Ormiston to Carmel Realty Company, 1926

Description:: Aimee Semple McPherson was under investigation for faking her own kidnapping.
Date:: June 18, 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Foursquare Gospel Lighthouses Questionnaire, 1928

Description:: Related to article, "New Storm Hits Temple: Suits Filed Against Mrs. McPherson in Realty Promotion and Reprisal Actions Promised," Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 1928: A1.
Date:: August 31, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Letter related to Aimee Semple McPherson, page 4, 1926

Description:: From the letter"... there's nothing more I could say - except perhaps gain your confidence more than is possible on paper.--Believe me - If I had youre preacher lady I'd collect that $25,000...Kennedy has offered - Poor Mrs. Kennedy- my heart sure bleeds for her..."
Date:: 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Page 2 of an interview transcript with Kenneth G. Ormiston, 1926

Description:: Ormiston was the man that was suspected of having a romantic getaway with Aimee McPherson during her alleged kidnapping. In this document, he alleges that it was a different woman he refers to as "Miss X".
Date:: [circa 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Letter with a request for money, related to Aimee Semple McPherson, part 1, , Los Angeles, 1926

Description:: From the letter: "Oh what a miserable thing they have done to me, they said they'd get me and they think they have, but what I've got a card to spring, they don't know of yet now dear if you will send down 3000 for land..."
Date:: 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Letter from Tahoe Cedars, 1928

Description:: From the letter: "Dear Friend: A summer colony of Crhistian people in the most delightful, beautiful, ideal vacation-land in America--Lake Tahoe. That is our most sincere ambition for Tahoe Cedars, the gem of Lake Tahoe."
Date:: September 1, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Aimee Semple McPherson in the Angelus Temple, Los Angeles, 1920s (copy photo)

Description:: Aimee Semple McPherson was an evangelist for the Angelus Temple.
Date:: [1920s?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Note about a shack in San Juan possibly related to the Aimee Semple McPherson disappearance, 1926

Description:: From note: "San Juan House looking Northwest... This view not before published...window at left is one Douglas Authorities state is identical with Mrs McPherson's description of one thru which she escaped..."
Date:: 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Letter related to Aimee McPherson letter, 1926

Description:: Some text from first page: My Dear Katie & dear boy, Hope you & all are well. I ... had lots of trouble, but everything is coming O.K."
Date:: August 29, 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Tahoe Cedars purchase letter, 1928

Description:: Aimee McPherson was widely known for being an alleged kidnapping victim in 1926.
Date:: September 1, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Letter from Superior Court Judge Carlos S. Hardy to Mr. McKinley, 1926

Description:: The letter is dated Aug. 14. Judge Hardy tells Mr. McKinley that he is leaving for a vacation in Canada and advised Mr. McKinley about how to reach him.
Date:: August 14, 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Kenneth Ormiston's letter to Mr. and Mrs. Benedict, 1926

Description:: George E. McIntyre was the name Kenneth Ormiston used while staying in a cottage with a mysterious woman who many believed to be Aimee Semple McPherson during her alleged kidnapping.
Date:: 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Letter related to Aimee Semple McPherson, 1926

Description:: In 1926 evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappeared from Venice Beach in California for 5 weeks. She emerged in Mexico, claiming to have been kidnapped. A grand jury investigation indicated that she had actually been staying with a former employee, Kenneth Ormiston. The case against McPherson was finally dismissed.
Date:: 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Transcript of an interview between Asa Keyes and Lorraine Wiseman, page 2, 1926

Description:: Some text from the letter: "Mrs. Wiseman further stated that she could and would bring three witnesses to prove that she was the person in the cottage. Mr. Keyes asked who they were, and she stated that she would bring them. Upon Mr. Keyes' later repeated inquiry as to who the witnesses were, Mrs. Wiseman informed him that one was her son in university, one was a dentist and another was the man who drove her to and fro."
Date:: August 21, 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Possible biography of Lorraine Wiseman, 1926

Description:: Lorraine Wiseman was a key witness in the alleged kidnapping case of Aimee McPherson.
Date:: 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Aimee McPherson's alleged ransom note, 1926

Description:: From the note: "San Francisco, May 18th, Temple Angelus, Los Angeles--We have with us your beloved Aimee McPherson and will free her on payment of 500,000.00 in currency to be paid, at once in this manner. She has injured us and must pay in money or blood,--Select your man and have him take a seat in the Palace Hotel Lobby..."
Date:: 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Back of a telegram related to Aimee Semple McPherson, 1926

Description:: In 1926 evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappeared from Venice Beach in California for 5 weeks. She emerged in Mexico, claiming to have been kidnapped. A grand jury investigation indicated that she had actually been staying with a former employee, Kenneth Ormiston. The case against McPherson was finally dismissed.
Date:: 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Tahoe Cedars Invoice, 1928

Description:: From invoice: "Total paid to F. F. Mason $50.00 on lot 6 Blk. 22 Tahoe Cedars Tract..."
Date:: April 30, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Aimee Semple McPherson sued over real estate acquisition, Los Angeles, 1928

Description:: Aimee McPherson was widely known for being an alleged kidnapping victim in 1926.
Date:: September 1, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Letter from McPherson to H. L. Henry, 1927

Description:: Photograph of letter where Aimee McPherson talks about how much she enjoyed the Foursquare Gospel Lighthouse at Tahoe Cedars.
Date:: August 25, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Page of a letter related to Aimee Semple McPherson, 1926

Description:: In 1926 evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappeared from Venice Beach in California for 5 weeks. She emerged in Mexico, claiming to have been kidnapped. A grand jury investigation indicated that she had actually been staying with a former employee, Kenneth Ormiston. The case against McPherson was finally dismissed.
Date:: 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Transcript of an interview between Asa Keyes and Lorraine Wiseman, page 1, 1926

Description:: Some text from the page: "Mrs. Wiseman and myself called at the office of the District Attorney, Asa Keyes, at about ten minutes after ten on the morning of August 21."
Date:: August 21, 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Letter with a request for money, related to Aimee Semple McPherson, part 2, 1926

Description:: Aimee Semple McPherson was under investigation for faking her own kidnapping.
Date:: 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Note from Bernice Morris, 1926

Description:: Text from note: Please quite directly, B.M.--"These are the pictures of the shacks given by Mrs. McPherson and Mrs. Kennedy, from which assortment the said said kidnappers were to designate one in which Mrs. McPherson was last held.-- Last Friday Mother Kennedy asked me to return these pictures to her."--Bernice Morris
Date:: 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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