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Box 51

 Container

Contains 18 Results:

Medical photographs [restricted], circa 1974-1978

 File — Box: 51, Folder: 7
Identifier: Series 5
Scope and Contents From the Series: Photographic prints were created or collected by the Publications Department to illustrate the Peoples Forum newspaper and other printed materials, including newsletters, press releases, and mailers, which supported Peoples Temple’s fundraising, public relations, and community outreach activities. The Publications Department also supplied photographic prints, enclosed with press releases, to other news organizations, including Carlton Goodlett’s...
Dates: circa 1974-1978

[Restricted contact prints and negatives], circa 1974-1978

 File — Box: 51, Folder: 9
Identifier: Series 1
Scope and Contents

Contains contact prints and negatives with medical and general photography intermixed.

Dates: circa 1974-1978

Medical photographs [restricted], circa 1970-1978

 File — Box: 51, Folder: 8
Identifier: Series 5
Scope and Contents From the Series: Photographic prints were created or collected by the Publications Department to illustrate the Peoples Forum newspaper and other printed materials, including newsletters, press releases, and mailers, which supported Peoples Temple’s fundraising, public relations, and community outreach activities. The Publications Department also supplied photographic prints, enclosed with press releases, to other news organizations, including Carlton Goodlett’s...
Dates: circa 1970-1978

Disappearing photographs [restricted], circa 1974-1975

 File — Box: 51, Folder: 13
Identifier: Series 4
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...
Dates: circa 1974-1975

Conspiracy Book [restricted], circa 1976

 File — Box: 51, Folder: 15
Identifier: Series 4
Restricted Materials

Contains a page from the manuscript of a book documenting potential conspiracies against the Temple, compiled by member (and eventual defector) Teri Buford. Page includes a signed confession of a Temple member that may compromise the privacy of living people.

Dates: circa 1976

Restricted slides, circa 1974-1978

 File — Box: 51, Folder: 16
Identifier: Series 2
Scope and Contents

Contains slides depicting the birth of an infant.

Dates: circa 1974-1978

Enemies that have left [restricted], 1976

 File — Box: 51, Folder: 20
Identifier: Series 1
Scope and Contents

Contains contact prints of people who have left Peoples Temple.

Dates: 1976

Enemies that have gone out, circa 1976-1978

 File — Box: 51, Folder: 21
Identifier: Series 1
Scope and Contents

Contains contact prints and negatives of people who left Peoples Temple.

Dates: circa 1976-1978