McPherson, Aimee Semple | Collections | The Huntington

McPherson, Aimee Semple | Collections | The Huntington

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Photographs of Aimee Semple McPherson and her ministry
Visual Materials
Consists of head-and-shoulder vignette portraits of Los-Angeles based evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson and her husband David Hutton (photPF 24910); two photographic postcards of her residence in Lake Elsinore, California (photPF 24911-24912); a group portrait of church members standing in front of the San Pedro Four Square Lighthouse Church in 1929 (photPF 24913); an exterior view of Angelus Temple in Los Angeles, with a sign "The Open Book Munhall Revival Campaign" on the building (photpF 24914); a photographic postcard of "Brother Arthur" (Joseph W. Arthur, co-pastor of the Angelus Temple) (photPF 24915); and a printed "Season's Greetings" card from McPherson (photPF 24916).
photPF 24910-24916
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Healing Service at Balboa Park. [Aimee Semple] McPherson Revival
Visual Materials
The Huntington Library's Collection of Panoramic Photographs, 1851 to 2014, depicts a wide variety of subjects and provides an important resource for the visual history of the United States, with a particular emphasis on California and the American West. Subjects include landscapes, group portraits, and miscellaneous views. The collection also contains photographs by some of the better known photographers and photographic firms of the first part of the twentieth century. Photographers and publishers represented in the collection include Charles Z. Bailey; Bailey and Ramsey; Bryant Studio; Bunnell Photo Shop; California Panorama Company; Bell Clements; Fay Foto Service; R.J. Gallagher; George. R. Lawrence Company; J.D. Givens; Gordon Panoramic Photo Company; Griffith Photo; Harris Photographic Company; Karen Halverson; George W. Hazard; L.M. Hermance; Hiller; Hughes Photos; William Henry Jackson; I.L. Maduro; Mayhart Studio; C.R. Nock; Panorama Publishing Company; Pettit's Studio; Photo News Service; C.C. Pierce; A.C. Pillsbury; Pillsbury Picture Company; Prince Photo; G.H. Rice; H.H. Rideout; Sanford and Black Photo News Service; Thompson; O.A. Tunnell; H.A. Varble; Miles F. Weaver; and West Coast Art Company. Notable in the collection is a contemporary four-plate ambrotype in a frame; it is a panoramic view of the Los Angeles River, 2014, by Michael Kolster (photPAN 147).
photPAN
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Los Angeles : manuscript
Manuscripts
Typed manuscript of Morrow Mayo's 1933 book Los Angeles, which includes handwritten editing notations. The manuscript opens with the founding of Los Angeles and its Spanish and missionary origins, and topics covered include the development of railroads, agriculture, social history, real estate, population growth, labor conflicts, the role of newspapers, and the development of local areas such as Pasadena, the Owens Valley, and Hollywood. Various extended anecdotes include those on the 1910 bombing of the L.A. Times building and subsequent trial of J.B. and J.J. McNamara and the arrest of William Edward Hickman for the murder of Marion Parker, as well as biographies of Times publisher Harrison Gray Otis, evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, and physicist Robert A. Millikan.
mssHM 74607
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May - June
Manuscripts
Approx. 50 items: correspondence and agendas, guest lists and other material related to "VIP" luncheons and meetings arranged by the LAT Editorial Writers Group during the period April through June 1986. The guests included a wide array of local, national and international officials. Notable names: Cesar Chavez, Carlos Fuentes (author), Jaime (Cardinal) Sin (Archbishop of Manila), Jerry Falwell (evangelist), Pete Wilson (US Senate).
mssLAT
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March - April
Manuscripts
Approx. 50 items: correspondence and agendas, guest lists and other material related to "VIP" luncheons and meetings arranged by the LAT Editorial Writers Group during the period April through June 1986. The guests included a wide array of local, national and international officials. Notable names: Cesar Chavez, Carlos Fuentes (author), Jaime (Cardinal) Sin (Archbishop of Manila), Jerry Falwell (evangelist), Pete Wilson (US Senate).
mssLAT
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Lake Isabella, Kern River, Kernville, CA
Manuscripts
Approx. 15 items. Material in this file reflects unhappiness on the part of the Kernville Chamber of Commerce and others for material appearing in LAT that was believed to be misleading or incorrect about the Lake Isabella area and businesses there. The furor was generated by a July 1963 Lake Isabella Special Section.
mssLAT