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Postcard: McPherson, Aimee Semple

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Postcard: McPherson, Aimee Semple

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Title Postcard: McPherson, Aimee Semple
Publisher Longshaw Card Co.
Time Period 20th century
Description Aimee Semple McPherson, a California-based evangelist who built the huge Angelus Temple funded by donations of her followers, disappeared while swimming near Venice Beach in 1926. She showed up, after having been missing for 32 days, at the edge of a desert in Arizona claiming that she had been kidnaped and escaped her captors. Her alleged kidnapping was believed by some to be fabricated in order to hide secret or illicit activity.

Caption: “618; Sister Aimee Semple McPherson, Angelus Temple, Los Angeles, Calif." This postcard is undated.
General Subject Area Crime
Extent 1 postcard
Institution Kent State University
Repository Special Collections and Archives
Finding aid title Finding Aid for the Crime-Related Postcards collection
Access Rights This digital object is owned by Kent State University and may be protected by U.S. Copyright law (Title 17, USC). Please include proper citation and credit for use of this item. Use in publications or productions is prohibited without written permission from Kent State University. Please contact the Department of Special Collections and Archives for more information.
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Format of Original postcard
Subject Abductions, Kidnappings & Missing Persons
Provenance Crime-Related Postcards collection
Genre/Format postcards
Geographical Location United States. California

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