Subject: Evangelists - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Evangelist and political figure Robert P. Shuler smiling while sitting with a group of people. Shuler became famous for his controversial sermons and radio broadcasts from Trinity Methodist church.
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Popular evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, in winter furs, holds a bouquet of roses while standing at the back of a Pacific Coast Railway car.
Date:: 1933-1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Popular Christian Evangelist and founder of the Foursquare Church, Aimee Semple McPherson, sings to the crowd while wrapped in white furs.
Date:: 1933-1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: (left to right) Attorney Joseph Scott, Angelus Temple business manager Giles Knight, Angelus Temple founder and pastor Aimee Semple McPherson, and Rolf Kennedy McPherson, son of Aimee. All are at a trial in which Aimee's daughter Roberta Semple has brought a $150,000 slander suit against Willedd Andrews, attorney for Aimmee McPherson and Angelus Temple. Miss Semple claims that Andrews had made untrue statements about her, including that Semple and her husband Jacob Moidel (former Temple attorney) had kidnapped Aimee and forced her to sign several documents. Joseph Scott acted as attorney for Andrews while Rolf and Aimee McPherson stood as witnesses. Roberta Semple was ultimately offered $2000 in damages. This trial was the latest in a series of tumultuous family relations which began with Aimee's decision to retain Giles Knight as business manager against Roberta's wishes
Date:: between April 12 and April 23, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Thousands of people came to bid Aimee Semple McPherson farewell before the pastor's three month trip abroad, where she will visit the Holy Land.
Date:: January 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Roberta waves as she's about to step onto a bus, a driver standing off to her right.
Date:: July 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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:: Dr. A. Earl Kernahan of Washington is here with his son to landscape the city of Los Angeles and survey the religious status of every citizen. The surveys of evangelism campaigns in some key American cities have so far gained half of a million members of the church.
Date:: July 20, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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