Genre: glass plate negatives / Location: Los Angeles (Calif.) / Names: McPherson, Aimee Semple, 1890-1944 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Reverend John Goben and Aimee Semple McPherson had a legal conflict over the financial affairs of the Angelus Temple church that went to a grand jury. Reported in "M'PHERSON QUIZ ADVANCED: Prosecutor Admits Probability of Finance Row Being Referred to Grand Jury," Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 1929:A8.
Date:: October 21, 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Reported in "Cheering throngs hail Aimee McPherson here: Crowd of 30,000 showers pastor with flowers as she returns; appreciation expressed," Los Angeles Times, 27 June 1926: 1.
Date:: June 26, 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: A group of men, women, and children stand, sit, or kneel in a darkened church. Two factions of the Angelus Temple defected from Aimee McPherson's Angelus Temple in 1925. These groups were located in Burbank and in Santa Ana. Their respective dissent was reported on in "Leave Mother Church: Burbank Congregation Severs Ties with Angelus Temple," Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 1925: 10 and "Prayer Downs Church Parley: Four Square Love Feast Proves Unfruitful, Discussion of Lawsuit is Hindered by Praise, Santa Ana Dissenters Give Version of Trouble," Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 1925: 12.
Date:: [between September-October 1925]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Kharvina Burbeck seated on a wooden chair in front of a door. Kharvina was the secretary to Minnie Kennedy, mother of Aimee Semple McPherson, the mother of the founder of the Foursquare Church. Reported, with a different photograph taken on the same day, in "Cash Saves Her When Jail Looms: Woman on Auto Charge Has 'Narrow Squeak' from Hearing Cell Door Creak," Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 1927: A8.
Date:: October 21, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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