Collection context
Summary
Background
- Scope and content:
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The Conference of California Historical Societies contains records and correspondence related to its founding, early years, membership, the publication of the California Historian, and the organization of annual conferences.
- Biographical / historical:
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The Conference of California Historical Societies is a consortium of the local historical societies of California. The Conference was founded under the leadership of California History Professor R. Coke Wood of the College of the Pacific (1954). The Conference supports the activities of its members with educational programs and information on historic restoration, fund raising, grant writing, lobbying, collection maintenance, volunteer activities and other subjects of interest to membership. The Conference publishes the California Historian and hosts annual conferences and workshops.
- Arrangement:
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Series 1 includes: officers’ records; minutes; programs; committee reports; financial reports; and, awards information (1954- ). Series 2 contains small serial publications and announcements of individual member societies.
- Physical location:
- For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
- Physical description:
- 4 linear ft.
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- © 1998
- Date Encoded:
- Machine-readable finding aid derived from paper by means of scanning and OCR; OCR file edited for typographical errors before encoding. Date of source: November 1998.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Collection is open for research.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Conference of California Historical Societies Archives, Mss243, Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library
- Location of this collection:
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University of the Pacific, Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University LibraryStockton, CA 95211, US
- Contact:
- (209) 946-2404