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Title: Aimee Semple McPherson with some of her birthday presents, Los Angeles, 1926
Date Created and/or Issued: October 1926
1926-10
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
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
Photograph appears with the article, "Evangelist's Birthday Celebrated," Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct 1926: 2.
Aimee takes a break from the trial for a three-day birthday celebration where she is bestowed at her home with gifts, cake, and entertainment from the children of her Bible school.
Aimee sits on a cushion on the floor surrounded on all sides by bouquets of flowers, baskets of fruit, boxes of chocolate, letters, and packages as she holds a bird in a birdcage.
Text from newspaper caption: "One Bright Spot," She Says Aimee Semple McPherson surrounded by some of her presents.
Text from negative sleeve: McPherson, A.S. birthday x
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_6334
ark:/21198/zz002cwj1j
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Gifts
Birdcages
Evangelists
Birds--California
Birthdays--California--Los Angeles
Angelus Temple (Los Angeles, Calif.)
McPherson, Aimee Semple, 1890-1944
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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