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. From the letter: "Dear Friend: A summer colony of Crhistian people in the most delightful, beautiful, ideal vacation-land in America--Lake Tahoe. That is our most sincere ambition for Tahoe Cedars, the gem of Lake Tahoe." Aimee McPherson was widely known for being an alleged kidnapping victim in 1926. Photograph is of a letter trying to entice the purchase of lots at Tahoe Cedars written byH. L. Henry. Aimee McPherson convinced her followers to purchase real estate for Angelus Temple and was being charged with a fraud suit for taking commission on the transaction. Handwritten on negative sleeve: McPherson, Aimee Semple, real estate case-copies
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_6404 ark:/21198/zz002cwmfq
Language
English
Subject
Evangelists--California--Los Angeles Fraud--California--Los Angeles Kidnappings--California--Los Angeles Actions and defenses--California--Los Angeles Real estate business--California--Los Angeles McPherson, Aimee Semple, 1890-1944
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection OpenUCLA Collections
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