Description
Minutes, correspondence, reports, studies, speech transcripts, membership and financial records, printed matter, and sound
and videotape recordings relating to international, national, state and local public issues. Digital copies of select records
also available at
https://digitalcollections.hoover.org.
Background
The Commonwealth Club of California is a private, nonprofit organization for the nonpartisan study of public issues based
in San Francisco, California. It was founded on February 3, 1903, by San Francisco Chronicle editorial writer Edward F. Adams to investigate and discuss public issues and contribute to their solution, provide an open
and impartial forum for discussion of disputed questions, and influence public opinion according to conclusions reached after
proper investigation.
Extent
1011 manuscript boxes, 119 oversize boxes, 62 card file boxes, 87 audio trays, 1 motion picture film, 3434 digital files
(525.6 Linear Feet)
Restrictions
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Availability
Boxes 5-256, 681-740, and 1239-1240 closed. The remainder of the collection is open for research; materials must be requested
in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual or digital media material in the collection, they must be
reformatted before providing access.