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Maker(s):Fries, Janet
Culture:American (1949 - )
Title:Jim Jones
Date Made:1976
Type:Photograph
Materials:gelatin silver print on seagull Oriental paper
Place Made:United States
Measurements:sheet: 15 7/8 x 20 in.; 40.3225 x 50.8 cm; image: 10 7/16 x 15 1/2 in.; 26.5113 x 39.37 cm
Narrative Inscription:  undated, signed in felt-tipped pen at lower right: Janet Fries, titled in felt-tipped pen at lower left: Jim Jones
Accession Number:  SC 1986.52.2
Credit Line:Gift of Janet Fries, class of 1971
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
portrait of a seated man leaning to the left; Portrait of Jim Jones (1931-1978), cult leader and founder of the Peoples Temple, in his office in San Francisco, CA.

Label Text:
This image is a portrait of Jim Jones (1931-1978), cult leader and founder of the Peoples Temple, in his office in San Francisco, CA. In 1978 Jones and over 900 of his followers committed suicide by drinking poisoned Kool-Aid, at Jones's instructions, at their compound, Jonestown, in Guyana. According to the photographer Janet Fries: "[Jones] was a very stiff person who took and held odd positions. He sat this way for some time while I photographed him."

Subjects:
Photographic gelatin

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