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Aimee Semple McPherson, Roberta Semple, and Minnie Kennedy at a meeting of the Evening Bible Training School, Los Angeles, 1926

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Title: Aimee Semple McPherson, Roberta Semple, and Minnie Kennedy at a meeting of the Evening Bible Training School, Los Angeles, 1926
Date Created and/or Issued: May 1926
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: 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 Haynes Foundation funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Photograph appears with the article, " 'Double' of Pastor Seen By Officer," Los Angeles Times, 20 May 1926: 3.
Aimee, Roberta, and Minnie stand together wearing white dresses amongst several other unidentified women wearing similar clothes. Aimee wears a dark cape and holds a book under one arm while her mother holds a bouquet of flowers in her arms.
Detective Captain Barnard of Culver City reports seeing McPherson driving towards Los Angeles on Washington Boulevard a short time before she was reported drowned at Venice.
Text from newspaper caption: Three Generations Last picture taken of Mrs. Aimee Semple McPherson, the evangelist, is shown in the center. At the left is her daughter, Roberta and at the right her mother, Mrs. Minnie Kennedy. The photograph was taken a few days ago at Angelus Temple during a meeting of the students of the Evening Bible Training School conducted under the direction of Mrs. McPherson.
Text from negative sleeve: McPherson, Aimee Semple temple crowd x
Handwritten on negative: [illegible] TER MCPHERSON AND MOTHER KENNEDY-WITH STUDENT OF THE EVE [illegible] AY- 1926 - AT - ANGELUS TEMPLE: LOS ANGELES CALIF - C [illegible]
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_6279
ark:/21198/zz002cwg44
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Evangelists
Bouquets
Family members--American--California--Los Angeles
Kennedy, Minnie, 1871-1947
McPherson, Aimee Semple, 1890-1944
Salter, Roberta Semple, 1910-2007
Angelus Temple (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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