California Historical Society
Coordinates: 37°47′12.64″N 122°24′5.33″W / 37.7868444°N 122.4014806°W
The California Historical Society is the U.S. state of California's state historical society. It is headquartered in San Francisco.
The California Historical Society was founded in 1871. In 1993 the organization purchased 678 Mission Street, home of the former San Francisco Builders Exchange, E.M. Hundley hardware store, and Nancy Pelosi's first campaign headquarters in the re-developing Yerba Buena Gardens neighborhood. In 2012 the exterior was repainted in Sherwin Williams' International Orange, the color of the iconic Golden Gate Bridge, in celebration of the 75th Anniversary of the world-famous suspension bridge.
The Society is a privately funded nonprofit organization that produces original exhibitions; maintains a collection of historical documents, photographs, art and other research materials; hosts educational events; and awards the annual California Historical Society Book Prize. The Society publishes California History, an academic journal, in association with the University of California Press.
Recent exhibitions at the California Historical Society's San Francisco headquarters include:
The California Historical Society Collection represents the environmental, economic, social, political, and cultural heritage of the state of California, including materials from outside California that contribute to a greater understanding of the state and its people. The collection includes 50,000 volumes of books and pamphlets; 4,000 manuscript collections; 500,000 photographs; printed ephemera, periodicals, posters, broadsides, maps, and newspapers; the Kemble Collection on Western Printing and Publishing; 5,000 works of art, including paintings, drawings, and lithographs; and numerous artifacts and costumes.
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