{"id":101029,"date":"2020-08-02T15:37:05","date_gmt":"2020-08-02T22:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=101029"},"modified":"2023-02-01T15:15:38","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T23:15:38","slug":"sdsu-library-digitizes-stephan-jones-photograph-collection","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=101029","title":{"rendered":"SDSU Library Digitizes Stephan Jones\u2019 Photograph Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2019, Special Collections & University Archives (SCUA) at San Diego State University Library acquired approximately 500 photographs from Stephan Jones, the son of the Rev. Jim Jones. In the intervening months, SCUA processed and preserved the photos, digitized them, and, by soliciting descriptive information about the photos from former Peoples Temple members and Jonestown survivors, was able to make them accessible to the world via the Library\u2019s Ibase digital asset management system. The photos were added to already existing photographs in the Jones Family Memorabilia Collection<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Photograph courtesy SDSU<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Peoples Temple took thousands of photographs of Temple members and activities, but these ~500 photos are particularly notable, important and rare because they afford an immediacy to and an understanding of Jim Jones, the Jones family, Peoples Temple, and Jonestown, not found elsewhere in the collection. The items have been arranged physically in six separate folders in Box 3 of the collection<\/a>:<\/p>\n