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

Description:: Related to the article, “EVANGELIST PLAYS SANTA ROLE: Temple Throng Sees Veterans Remembered,” Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 1933: A8
Date:: [circa December 28, 1933]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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

Description:: At left, attorney Forrest Murray stands beside the witness box during the kidnapping case of Aimee Semple McPherson. He stands facing slightly right and holds up the dress worn by McPherson when found in the desert. To the right of him, Alonzo B. Murchison, a native of Douglas, Arizona, sits on the witness stand.
Date:: [circa 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Related to numerous stories reported by the Los Angeles Times on Aimee Semple McPherson's alleged kidnapping in 1926. McPherson, evangelist for the Angelus Temple, disappeared for some time, and when she reappeared, saying she was kidnapped, she and her mother, Mildred Kennedy, were charged with criminal conspiracy, perjury, and obstruction of justice.
Date:: [circa 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Aimee Semple McPherson kisses a school girl (possibly a family member) on the platform of a train car as a crown watches. McPherson is about to depart for Boston and holds a large bouquet of roses.
Date:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Aimee Semple McPherson, Mayor Frank Shaw, and Rheba Crawford smiling as they watch the Four Square Gospel Parade from the reviewing stand on the steps of City Hall.
Date:: January 4, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Aimee Semple and Mayor Frank Shaw smiling as they watch the parade from the reviewing box. On their left are Roberta Semple and Rheba Crawford saluting and smiling. Surrounding the four are unidentifiable men in uniform.
Date:: January 4, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A parasol and pendant necklace, found in a trunk allegedly belonging to Kenneth G. Ormiston during proceedings against Aimee Semple McPherson and others, are viewed close-up. At center, the parasol stands upright on the seat of a chair. Behind it, a large, furled piece of paper rests between the parasol and the back of the chair as a makeshift backdrop. To the right of the parasol, a large pendant necklace hangs down against the backdrop.
Date:: [circa November, 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Mexican cowboy Francisco Perez testifies on behalf of evangelist Aimee McPherson in her trial on charges that she conspired with her mother to defeat justice. The case focused on charges the popular minister faked her own kidnapping.
Date:: [October 21, 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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