Finding aid for the Annabelle Yerigan Foursquare Church album 7154
Bo Doub -- with collection-level notes adapted from the seller, Johnson Rare Books and Archives
USC Libraries Special Collections
2024 March
Doheny Memorial Library 206
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Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Title: Annabelle Yerigan Foursquare Church album
Creator:
Yerigan, Annabelle (1902-1975)
Identifier/Call Number: 7154
Identifier/Call Number: /repositories/3/resources/3450
Physical Description:
0.96 Linear Feet
1 box
Date (inclusive): 1933-1943
Abstract: The Annabelle Yerigan Foursquare Church album is a photograph and memory book created by Annabelle Yerigan (1902-1975), an
ordained minister of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel. An Evangelical Pentecostal Christian church founded
by Aimee Semple McPherson (1890-1944) in Los Angeles, the Foursquare Church is credited by some as the first megachurch. McPherson
used radio broadcasts to draw in large audiences and donations to Foursquare Church events and services. In 1938, Annabelle
Yerigan became an ordained minister of Foursquare Church after graduating from the church's L.I.F.E. Pilots program. During
this time, the ministry was still popular but beginning to struggle financially because of internal conflicts following a
scandal surrounding McPherson's alleged kidnapping and a nervous breakdown that kept her away from the pulpit for nearly 10
months. The album includes photographs, clippings, and other documents relating to Yerigan's ministerial training and roles
at the church, and several pieces of church-related ephemera. These materials highlight women's leadership roles within the
Foursquare Church.
Language of Material:
English
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Container: 1
The Annabelle Yerigan Foursquare Church album is a photograph and memory book created by Annabelle Yerigan (1902-1975), an
ordained minister of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel. An Evangelical Pentecostal Christian church founded
by Aimee Semple McPherson (1890-1944) in Los Angeles, the Foursquare Church is credited by some as the first megachurch. McPherson
used radio broadcasts to draw in large audiences and donations to Foursquare Church events and services. In 1938, Annabelle
Yerigan became an ordained minister of Foursquare Church after graduating from the church's L.I.F.E. Pilots program.
The album contains 36 black and white photographs, including one of Yerigan and an unidentified man with McPherson in the
center saluting the photographer, as well as several images of Yerigan in various iterations of her preaching attire, along
with a 1937 class photo. Pasted in are Yerigan's Baptismal Certificate, dated November 1933, two ministerial licenses dated
1938 and 1943, and a few newspaper clippings. Various pieces of church-related ephemera are laid in, including an Angelus
Temple schedule for May 18, 1942 which lists Yerigan as Assistant at the 1 p.m. service. The materials are housed in a custom
wood and string tied binding with a relief of a woman wearing a cap which reads LIFE and piloting a boat, alongside the raised
title "Pilots '37".
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from Johnson Rare Books and Archives, November 15, 2023.
[Box/folder no. or item name], Annabelle Yerigan Foursquare Church album, Collection no. 7154, Regional History Collection,
Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Churches -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- Archival resources
Churches -- California -- Los Angeles -- Photographs
Evangelicalism -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources
Pentecostal churches -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources
Women clergy -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources
Baptismal certificates
Certificates
Ephemera
Newspaper clippings
Photograph albums
Photographs
Scrapbooks
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel -- Archives
McPherson, Aimee Semple, 1890-1944 -- Archives
Yerigan, Annabelle (1902-1975) -- Archives