Disappearing photograph correspondence [redacted copies], 2019

File — Box: 41, Folder: 3

Identifier: Series 4

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Contains redacted copies of letters testifying to the ostensible power of the "disappearing photographs" of Jim Jones distributed with the Temple's August 1974 mailer, and intended to be used for faith healing. Names have been removed from the letters in order to protect the privacy of possibly living people. Some have been left unaltered, in cases of the subjects' confirmed deaths at Jonestown.

Dates

2019

Restricted Materials

Sealed and closed until 2052: Visitor Information Cards, Box 51, Folders 4-5.

Sealed and closed until 2053: Disappearing Photograph Correspondence, Box 51, Folder 10. Disappearing Photograph Envelopes, Box 51, Folders 11-12. Disappearing Photographs, Box 51, Folder 13. Conspiracy Book [restricted], Box 51, Folder 15.

Sealed for the lifetimes of the subjects: Temple Member Biographies, Box 51, Folder 3 (Timothy Carter and Lee Ingram)