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Title
Praying for McPherson
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1944
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
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Description
Prayer service at Angelus Temple's Prayer Tower on the day of Aimee Semple McPherson's death at age 53: September 27, 1944 at 11:45 a.m. She died of an accidental overdose of sleeping pills in Oakland, where she had gone to dedicate a new church.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00021742
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1712-McPherson, Aimee Semple.
CARL0000026961
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/9213
Subject
McPherson, Aimee Semple,--1890-1944--Death and burial
Angelus Temple (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Clergy--California--Los Angeles
Echo Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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