Genre: correspondence / Language: English / Names: McPherson, Aimee Semple, 1890-1944 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

Browse items

Subject

Resource Type

Genre

Names

Location

Date

Language

Collection

Repository

17 Catalog Results

Aimee McPherson's alleged ransom note, 1926

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

Back of a telegram related to Aimee Semple McPherson, 1926

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

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

Letter from Kenneth Ormiston to Carmel Realty Company, 1926

Letter from McPherson to H. L. Henry, 1927

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

Letter from Tahoe Cedars, 1928

Letter related to Aimee McPherson letter, 1926

Letter related to Aimee Semple McPherson, 1926

Letter related to Aimee Semple McPherson, 1926

Letter related to Aimee Semple McPherson, page 4, 1926

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

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

Page of a letter related to Aimee Semple McPherson, 1926

Tahoe Cedars purchase letter, 1928

Search

Browse items

Search Constraints

17 Catalog Results

Search Results