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Contains a small group of Guyanese penny coins found in a plastic bag in the collection, along with a locket ring containing a photograph of Jim Jones. The ring is stored with its original envelope provided by the donors, which declares it to be the former property of Temple member and Jonestown victim Novella Sneed (1907-1978).

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Contains a series of pens promoting Jim Jones and the Redwood Valley Temple, along with Licenses to Solicit (i.e. to publicly seek donations to the church) for members Linda Mertle and Vonn Smith.

Scope and Contents Contains photographs of Jim Jones intentionally developed to fade on contact with light, distributed with the Temple's August 1974 mailer and intended to be used for faith healing. Although the mailer never explicitly instructed the user to place the photograph on the site of their illness and watch the photograph vanish as they were healed, it did include several testimonials to this effect. The photographs in this folder were sent back to the Temple, many with testimonals written on their...

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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.

Scope and Contents From the Series: The manuscripts, ephemera, and artifacts series contains a diverse selection of materials produced or maintained by the Publications Department. Some, such as a substantial group of Temple newsletters and mailers, document the Department's daily work. Others, such as a collection of members' biographies from Jonestown and the manuscript of a book by member (and later defector) Teri Buford documenting potential conspiracies against the Temple, speak of the Department's sense of a broader...

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Contains an organizational chart explaining Temple activities publicized by the Publications Department, produced in 2019 by the donors.