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Hand-drawn diagram of Aimee Semple McPherson's escape route in the Sonoran Desert, circa 1926

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Title: Hand-drawn diagram of Aimee Semple McPherson's escape route in the Sonoran Desert, circa 1926
Date Created and/or Issued: [circa 1926]
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 Arcadia funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
Photograph of a hand-drawn diagram that depicts Aimee Semple McPherson's account of her escape from her kidnappers in Sonora, Mexico. A dotted line, representing the U.S./Mexico border, extends across the upper third of the image. Below, the Sonoran town of Agua Prieta and its surroundings are depicted. Above the dotted line, Douglas, Arizona is represented. Notations and scale markers are also included in the diagram. A compass rose sits in the upper right corner. Signatures of witnesses Jackson Bergh and Mayor (of Agua Prieta) Ernesto Boubion are in the lower left corner.
Text from negative sleeve: McPherson, Aimee Semple Map Douglas[?]
Handwritten on negative: Diagram of Amie [sic] McPhers[...] kidnapping
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_6327
ark:/21198/zz002cwhsf
Language: English
Subject: Escapes--Mexico--Sonora
Douglas (Ariz.)
Kidnappings--California--Los Angeles
Autographs
Evidence (law)
Sonora (Mexico : State)
Sonoran Desert
Bergh, Jackson
McPherson, Aimee Semple, 1890-1944 Trials, litigation, etc
McPherson, Aimee Semple, 1890-1944
Boubion, Ernesto
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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