Genre: news photographs / Names: McPherson, Aimee Semple, 1890-1944 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: John J. Kershner was the author and publisher of a book chronicling the life and works of Aimee Semple McPherson. The book was published in 1926.
Date:: [1926?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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

Description:: David Hutton was a singer and performer married to Aimee McPherson very briefly in 1931.
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: During the McPherson kidnapping case, Aimee Semple McPherson (Mrs. McPherson), a Pentecostal evangelist, was accused of having an affair with another man here during the dates of her disappearance.
Date:: 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A similar photograph of Aimee Semple McPherson on the witness stand is captioned, "Evangelist Quizzed on Film and Marital Affairs Upper picture at the trial of the film contract breach suit shows Superior Judge Yankwich and Aimee Semple McPherson-Hutton. Lower picture was taken at the deposition proceedings--left to right--Dave Hutton, Attorney Benjamin Lewis, Aimee Semple McPherson-Hutton, Attorney Edward A. Adams and Miss Ruth Tuttle, shorthand reporter," Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 1934: A3
Date:: [January 29, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Adobe hut in the Sonora desert. In 1926 the Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappeared from Ocean Park Beach. A search ensued. When she finally re-appeared in Arizona, weeks later, she claimed that she had been abducted and taken to a a hut in Mexico, from which she eventually escaped.
Date:: 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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

Description:: Three persons participating in the grand jury investigation into the disappearance of Aimee Semple McPherson, L to R: Louise Winters, a friend of Aimee Semple McPherson; Blanche O. Rice, captain of the women orderlies and mail clerk at the Angelus Temple; Reverend D. V. Alderman, a minister of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel.
Date:: 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: 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
Date:: [circa May 19, 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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