US UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Photograph of Minnie Kennedy, mother of Aimee Semple McPherson, with attorney Marion P. Betty in his office filing for divorce from "Whataman" Guy Edward Hudson. Kennedy holds several checks that she wrote to Hudson. Text from newspaper caption: Mrs. Kennedy-Hudson and Bundle of Grief. Wife of Whatman, and mother of Aimee Semple McPherson Hutton, shows some of reasons why said Whataman was not paying proposition. The exhibit includes checks, bills and notes. Photograph appears with the article, "'Ma' Files Divorce Papers" 'Whataman' Hudson Declared Too Expensive and Complaint Lists Series of Charges," 19 Jul. 1932: A1. Text on negative sleeve: Kennedy, Minnie (Angelus Temple) Mother of McPherson Handwritten on negative: Ma Kennedy & Marion P. Betty
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_5366 ark:/21198/zz002cvcn0
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Checks Divorce--California--Los Angeles Religious groups--California--Los Angeles Betty, Marion P. (Marion Patterson), 1893-1961 Kennedy, Minnie, 1871-1947
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