Articles from the California Historical Society

CHS Peoples Temple Collection Transferred to Stanford, by Frances Kaplan (2025)

(Editor’s note: In 2025, the California Historical Society transferred its collections, including its collection on Peoples Temple, to Stanford University in Palo Alto. All the CHS collections may be viewed here. To learn more about visiting the Special Collections at Stanford, click here.

(Frances Kaplan is the Archivist/Librarian for the California Historical Society Collections  at Stanford University Libraries. She may be reached at fwkaplan@stanford.edu.)

(The articles below were written by staff members of CHS during its years on Mission Street in San Francisco, and have been archived by the jonestown report.)

1. The Peoples Temple Photo Identification Project, by Frances Kaplan (2023)
2. Preserving history: The Peoples Temple Collections at the California Historical Society, by Frances Kaplan (2022)
3. CHS Processes Major Collection of Temple Publications Department (March 2019)
4. Report on the Peoples Temple Collection at the California Historical Society, by Marie Silva, Archivist & Manuscripts Librarian (2018)
5. Report on the Peoples Temple Collection at the California Historical Society, by Chela Scot Weber, Marie Silva, and Frances Kaplan (2017)
6. Report on the Peoples Temple Collection at the California Historical Society, by Marie Silva (2015)
7. Report on the Peoples Temple Collection at the California Historical Society, by Marie Silva & Mary Morganti (2013)
8. Peoples Temple Films in CHS Collection to Appear Online, by Marie Silva & Mary Morganti (2012)
9. Report on the Peoples Temple Collection at the California Historical Society (2011)
10. CHS Puts Temple Photos Online, Receives Large Photo Donation, by Tanya Hollis (2010)
    1. The Role of the Receiver in Shaping the Peoples Temple Collection, by Frances Wratten Kaplan
11. CHS Acquires Additional Collections, Embarks on Photo Identification Effort, by Tanya Hollis (2009)
    1. My Account of How the Laurence Schacht Clinic Sign Was Acquired, by Derek Braithwaite
    2. Fringe artists interpret Jonestown, by Rikke Wettendorff
12. New Collections from Temple Survivors Highlight CHS Acquisitions, by Tanya Hollis (2008)
13. Report from the California Historical Societyby Tanya Hollis & Mary Morganti (2007)
    1. The Peoples Temple Collection at California Historical Society
14. Report from the California Historical Society, by Denice Stephenson and Mary Morganti (2006)
15. Report from the California Historical Society(2005)
    1. When Tragedy Informs History: The Challenges of Administering the Peoples Temple Collection at the California Historical Societyby Mary Morganti
16. Report from the California Historical Societyby Denice Stephenson (2004)
    1. An Open Invitation from the Library at the California Historical Society by Mary Morganti
    2. Donating My Peoples Temple Archives to the California Historical Society by John R. Hall
    3. Knowledge of Temple Archives Goes International by Mary Morganti
    4. Primary Sources Needed for Continued Research on Peoples Temple by Tanya Hollis
17. Report from the California Historical Society(2003)
    1. Living History: the Peoples Temple Archive at CHS, by Tanya Hollis
18. Report from the California Historical Society(2002)
    1. Resources Improve at California Historical Society
19. Report From The California Historical Society by Tanya Hollis (2001)
    1. Resources At The California Historical Society by Denice Stephenson
20. Report from the California Historical Society by Tanya Hollis (2000)
21. “The Peoples Temple Collection”, California History, California Historical Society, Vol. 83, No. 1 (2005), 3-5.