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. This photograph is similar to images appearing with the articles, "DETECTIVES INQUIRE INTO EVANGELIST'S DROWNING: Burns Operatives Enter Case While Searchers Vainly Seek Body of Aimee Semple McPherson," Los Angeles Times, 20 May 1926: 1, and “FAITHFUL CLING TO WANING HOPE: Men and Women Followers of Mrs. McPherson Grouped on Sands at Venice Pray That Leader Will Return to Them,” Los Angeles Times, 20 May 1926: 2 A crowd of dozens gathers on Venice Beach. In the foreground, a man stands along the left edge and faces right. Behind him, the crowd stretches back and across the image. A few people at right and center lounge on the beach while most behind them stand. The majority of onlookers face towards the right and almost all wear jackets at the beach. Similar photographs of the same event appear with the newspaper caption, "Crowds Offer Prayer at Scene of Bathing Tragedy Picture shows part of the throng that [flocked?] to Venice beach yesterday while police and life guards searched in vain to recover body of Aimee Semple McPherson, believed victim of sea while swimming Tuesday afternoon. Insert shows Mrs. McPherson, pastor of Angelus Temple, victim of tragedy," Los Angeles Times, 20 May 1926: 2 This photograph is similar to images appearing as part of panoramic photograph titled, "Thousands of Evangelist's Followers Throng Beach While Searchers Vainly Drag Sea for Body of Temple," Los Angeles Times, 20 May 1926: 2 Text from negative sleeve: MCPHERSON, AIMEE SEMPLE [handwritten:] with Ormiston & beach scenes 1
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_6389 ark:/21198/zz002cwkxg
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Missing persons--California--Los Angeles Crowds--California--Los Angeles Beaches--California--Venice McPherson, Aimee Semple, 1890-1944
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection OpenUCLA Collections
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