Contains mostly undated contact prints documenting Peoples Temple events, activities, and visits from local and national figures and foreign dignitaries, taken in California mostly in 1976. Includes photographs of guests from Belize, the USSR, Grenada, South Africa, Chile (the Chile Democrático group); Housing Authority meetings and trips; church services and meetings at which prominent figures spoke or were present; the Walter Mondale rally (1976 September 19); the Moscone dinner (1976 May?); International Hotel demonstrations; and Jim Jones’ trip to Cuba, during which he visited Huey Newton (1977). Also includes photographs labeled “security,” “security purposes,” and “legal documentation,” showing people, cars and trucks, accidents, and acts of vandalism possibly deemed suspicious by Peoples Temple; and formal and candid portraits of unidentified members.

Public figures depicted include: Mervyn Dymally; Kenneth Orduna; Mike Roos; Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden; Dianne Feinstein; Joseph Alioto; Charles Garry; civil rights activist Unita Blackwell Wright; Fernando Flores (Salvador Allende’s cabinet minister); Harvey Milk; Willie Brown; Dennis Banks; Angela Davis; Walter Mondale; and George Moscone.