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Title: Roberta Semple finalizes her divorce, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: June 1935
1935-06
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.
Aimee Semple McPherson's daughter Roberta left Superior Judge McComb's courtroom after she was rid of the name Smyth, belonging to her ex-husband William Bradley Smyth.
Photograph appears with the article, "Aimee's Daughter Regains Name of Roberta Semple," Los Angeles Times, 05 June 1935: 3.
Roberta smiles into the camera as she rips the piece of paper in half.
Text from negative sleeve: SEMPLE. ROBERTA MCPHERSON CASE X Historical (one or more being cleaned) Box 28
Text from newspaper caption: Roberta Semple Smyth, Aimee Semple McPherson's daughter, says it was easy to convince court she should resume name of Roberta Semple for evangelical purposes, since she has divorced W. B. Smyth.
Handwritten on negative: 115 115 Roberta Semple
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_11653
ark:/21198/zz002h9qzz
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Divorce--California--Los Angeles
Daughters--American--California--Los Angeles
Salter, Roberta Semple, 1910-2007
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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