A signed studio portrait photograph of Aimee Semple McPherson, held by the Los Angeles Public Library as part of the Security Pacific National Bank Collection and credited to Tibbals Studio. The library's own catalogue data dates it to circa 1911, early in McPherson's public ministry, and the original documentation describes it as inscribed by her, "Yours In the King's Glad Service." The same photograph serves as the lead portrait on McPherson's English Wikipedia biography, where it is instead captioned to the early 1920s, a disagreement of roughly a decade between the archival record and that later caption that is noted here rather than silently resolved.
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Devotional FunctionSourced to the subject's own accountStudio portraits like this one circulated as part of the publicity and fundraising materials that supported McPherson's traveling revival ministry, functioning less as a private keepsake than as a piece of ministry branding; her early and sustained investment in professionally produced portraiture and, later, her own radio station, is part of what historians point to as making her media savvy years ahead of most of her evangelist peers. 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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This source names Los Angeles directly: "of Aimee Semple McPherson, held by the Los Angeles Public Library as part of the Security Pacific National Bank Collection and credited to Tibbals Studio."
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The photograph's sole subject, used as the lead portrait on her Wikipedia biography and catalogued by the Los Angeles Public Library as an inscribed studio portrait.
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