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Aimee Semple McPherson's secretary Emma Shaffer, Roberta Semple, and Rolf McPherson, Los Angeles, 1926

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Title: Aimee Semple McPherson's secretary Emma Shaffer, Roberta Semple, and Rolf McPherson, Los Angeles, 1926
Date Created and/or Issued: June 2, 1926
1926-06-02
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.
Roberta and Rolf stand on either side of an unsmiling Ms. Schaffer.
Minnie Kennedy protects her grandson Rolf from reporters after his return from Yolo county.
Photograph appears with the article, "M'Pherson Boy Shielded," Los Angeles Times, 03 June 1926: A1.
Text from negative sleeve: McPherson, Roberta & Robert &, Rolf x
Text from newspaper caption: Wearing His First Pair of Long Trousers, his last present from his mother, Rolf McPherson, 11-year-old son of Aimee Semple McPherson, arrived in Los Angeles yesterday from a ranch in Yolo county. The boy says he believes his mother died in the Pacific Ocean. Above, Rolf, Emma Schaffer and Roberta Semple, his half-sister. (Times photo.)
Handwritten on negative: Roberta Semple Emma Shafer Rolf Mc Pherson
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_6340
ark:/21198/zz002cwj7n
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Siblings--American--California--Los Angeles
Shaffer, Emma
Salter, Roberta Semple, 1910-2007
McPherson, Rolf Kennedy, 1913-2009
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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