{"id":33152,"date":"2013-07-25T15:54:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T15:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=33152"},"modified":"2026-02-21T16:03:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T00:03:12","slug":"chs-pt","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=33152","title":{"rendered":"The Peoples Temple Collection at California Historical Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The California Historical Society (CHS) is the chief repository for materials related to Peoples Temple. These materials include organizational and personal papers, legal documents, financial records and photographs. CHS currently holds <strong>seventeen individual collections<\/strong> that form the Peoples Temple Collection:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Manuscript Collections Peoples Temple Records, 1941-1983 (MS 3800); 139 boxes<\/p>\n<p>FBI Collection of Peoples Temple Papers from Jonestown, Guyana: photocopies, 1931-1978 (MS 3801); 35 boxes<\/p>\n<p>Moore Family Papers (MS 3802), 1968-1988; 28 boxes<\/p>\n<p>John R. Hall research materials on Peoples Temple, 1954-2003; 38 boxes (MS 3803)<\/p>\n<p>Ross E. Case Collection pertaining to Peoples Temple, 1961-1984 (MS 4062); 2 boxes<\/p>\n<p>Margaret T. Singer Materials on Peoples Temple, 1956-1998 (MS 4123); 29 boxes<\/p>\n<p>Peoples Temple Ephemera and Publications, 1959-1979 (MS 4124); 2 boxes<\/p>\n<p>Newspaper Clippings on Peoples Temple: photocopies, 1953-1978 (MS 4125); 1 box<\/p>\n<p>Peoples Temple Miscellany Collection, 1951-[ongoing] (MS 4126); 12 boxes<\/p>\n<p>Peoples Temple Theater Project Collection, 2001-[ongoing] (MS 4127)); 5 boxes <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong> Photography Collections <\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Photographs from Peoples Temple Records, [1959]-1980 (MSP 3800); 7 boxes, 25 albums<\/p>\n<p>Photographs from Moore Family Papers, 1968-1979 (MSP 3802); 1 box<\/p>\n<p>Photographs from John R. Hall Research Materials on Peoples Temple, 1935-2003 (MSP 3803); 1 box<\/p>\n<p>Photographs from Ross E. Case Collection pertaining to Peoples Temple, 1966-1978 (MSP 4062); 1 box<\/p>\n<p>Photographs from Margaret T. Singer Materials on Peoples Temple, 1970-1978 (MSP 4123); 2 boxes, 1 album<\/p>\n<p>Photographs from Peoples Temple Miscellany Collection, 1966-1978 (MSP 4126); 1 box<\/p>\n<p>Photographs of Peoples Temple in U.S. and Guyana, 1967-1978 (PC 010); 8 albums<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Researchers can search for materials related to Peoples Temple at <a href=\"http:\/\/melvyl.cdlib.org\"> http:\/\/melvyl.cdlib.org<\/a>, the online catalog of the University of California libraries, which includes records of the California Historical Society. More detailed guides or finding aids to larger collections can be found through the Online Archive of California ( <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oac.cdlib.org\"> http:\/\/www.oac.cdlib.org<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The California Historical Society (CHS) is the chief repository for materials related to Peoples Temple. These materials include organizational and personal papers, legal documents, financial records and photographs. CHS currently holds seventeen individual collections that form the Peoples Temple Collection: Manuscript Collections Peoples Temple Records, 1941-1983 (MS 3800); 139 boxes FBI Collection of Peoples Temple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":33218,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-33152","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33152"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133943,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33152\/revisions\/133943"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}