Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection / Names: McPherson, Aimee Semple, 1890-1944 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Aimee Semple McPherson appears in court to testify regarding a $2500 check that was given to Superior Judge Hardy in 1926 that was entered in their accounts as "Legal and Defense".
Date:: January 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Ernest A. Renkert was a delivery driver who testified that he had seen Aimee Semple at a seaside cottage at Carmel-by-the-Sea, contradicting Semple's story that she had been kidnapped and taken to Mexico.
Date:: September 1926
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 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:: 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:: A similar photograph of the same cottage appears with the articles, "MOTHER DENIES BLINDNESS OF 'SISTER' M'PHERSON: Broken-Nosed Parent Requests Her Daughter to Appear at Temple; Facial Liftings in Spotlight," Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 1930: A1, and "'MA' KENNEDY TELLS OF BLOW: Nose Broken by Daughter in Fight, Says Mother History of Angelus Temple Conflict Exposed Row Over Woman Declared to Have Been Climax," Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 1930: A1
Date:: [circa August, 1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Dozens of people sit or stand along Venice Beach. The crowd stretches back in a loose line from left to center; most face right. All wear jackets at the beach. In the far distance at right, Venice Pier is visible extending into the water.
Date:: [circa May 19, 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Related to the articles, "LINK TRUNK TO FIND IN CARMEL: Crochet on Towel and Wash Rag Held Identical Officers Tracing Gowns as McPherson Clews More Strands of Red Hair Found in Ornaments," Los Angeles Times, 02 Nov. 1926: A1, and, "LIST GIVEN OF TRUNK'S CONTENTS Keyes Checks Garments in Container Thought to Belong to Ormiston," Los Angeles Times, 02 Nov. 1926: A2
Date:: [circa November, 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: McPherson stands on a small platform over a large crowd of children who each have their left arms raised in the air towards her.
Date:: June 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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