Genre: glass plate negatives / Subject: Search and rescue operations--California - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Minnie Kennedy, mother of the evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, doing a radio interview with deep-sea diver R. C. Crawford during the search for her daughter's body. Related to the article, "AIMEE SEMPLE M'PHERSON BELIEVED BATHING VICTIM: Police and Members of Congregation Patrol Beach in Vain Search for Trace of Missing Pastor," Los Angeles Times, 19 May 1926: 1.
Date:: May 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: The St. Francis Dam was a 200-foot high concrete gravity-arch dam built between 1924 and 1926 in St. Francisquito Canyon (near present-day Castaic and Santa Clarita). The dam collapsed on March 12, 1928 at two and a half minutes before midnight. The resulting flood killed more than 600 residents plus an unknown number of itinerant farm workers camped in San Francisquito Canyon, making it the 2nd greatest loss of life in California after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. It is considered the worst American civil engineering failure in the 20th century.
Date:: March 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Minnie Kennedy, mother of the evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, holds on to a railing as she looks out into the ocean in search of her missing daughter. Related to the article, "AIMEE SEMPLE M'PHERSON BELIEVED BATHING VICTIM: Police and Members of Congregation Patrol Beach in Vain Search for Trace of Missing Pastor," Los Angeles Times, 19 May 1926: 1.
Date:: May 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Minnie Kennedy, mother of the evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, holds on to a railing as she looks out into the ocean in search of her missing daughter. Related to the article, "AIMEE SEMPLE M'PHERSON BELIEVED BATHING VICTIM: Police and Members of Congregation Patrol Beach in Vain Search for Trace of Missing Pastor," Los Angeles Times, 19 May 1926: 1.
Date:: May 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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