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Contributing Institution:
Special Collections & University Archives
Title: Ann Elizabeth Moore Papers
Creator:
Moore, Ann Elizabeth
Identifier/Call Number: MS-0526
Physical Description:
3.63 Linear Feet
Date: 1956-1978
Language of Material:
English
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The
Ann Elizabeth Moore Papers (1954-1978) consist of correspondence, schoolwork, photographs, artwork and memorabilia. All materials are organized alphabetically
by document type, with correspondence further organized chronologically within its folders. The largest amount of material
is correspondence, and within that category most letters are written to Ann from her friends. The earliest letters date from
when Ann was only eight years old, and most correspondence continues until after her high school graduation, making the letters
exceptionally noteworthy as a window into Ann's girlhood and adolescence. Her friends wrote to her about boys, school, music,
and other topics. Letters written from Ann to her parents after she immigrated to Guyana in 1976 as part of the Peoples Temple
community in Jonestown are especially significant. Ann's schoolwork spans her years at Davis Junior High School and Davis
Senior High School. One of her school reports, about the 1960s pop musician Donovan, is particularly notable not only for
its contents but also for the detailed marginalia that Ann drew. The collection contains a significant amount of Ann's artwork,
including small books she assembled and illustrated as well as her sketches and drawings.
All materials are organized alphabetically by document type, with correspondence further organized chronologically within
its folders.
The collection is open for research.
The copyright interests in some of these materials have been transferred to or belong to San Diego State University. The nature
of historical archival and manuscript collections means that copyright status may be difficult or even impossible to determine.
Copyright resides with the creators of materials contained in the collection or their heirs. Requests for permission to publish
must be submitted to the Head of Special Collections, San Diego State University, Library and Information Access. When granted,
permission is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical item and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder(s), which must also be obtained in order to publish. Materials from our collections are
made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of the
materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials.
Rebecca Moore and Fielding M. McGehee III
Alternative Considerations of Jonestown and Peoples Temple
, sponsored by the Department of Religious Studies at San Diego State University.
Peoples Temple Collection, 1972-1990
Rebecca Moore Papers, 1951-2013
Identification of item, folder title, box number, Ann Elizabeth Moore Papers, Special Collections and University Archives,
San Diego State University Library.
Ann Elizabeth Moore was born on May 12, 1954 to parents John and Barbara Moore. She spent much of her adolescence in San Francisco
and Davis, California. She had two older sisters - Carolyn and Rebecca - and her father served as a minister in the United
Methodist Church. She lived with her sister Rebecca and her husband Patrick Clary in Washington, D.C. during the summer of
1971 and she volunteered her time at the Children's Hospital of the District of Columbia. After graduating high school in
1972, Ann moved to Redwood Valley to live with her other sister, Carolyn, and work in the Peoples Temple church. Ann attended
Santa Rosa Junior College and earned a degree in nursing in 1975. In the years to follow, Ann gradually became more involved
with Peoples Temple, becoming a member of Jim Jones' inner circle. She moved with the group to Jonestown, in Guyana, in 1976
where she helped to develop the Peoples Temple Agricultural Project. Ann and her sister Carolyn died in the tragedy at Jonestown
on November 18, 1978.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Jonestown (Guyana)
Peoples Temple--History--Sources
Personal Papers
Adolescence--California
Teenage girls--California
Jones, Jim, 1931-1978