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. 

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.

1011 manuscript boxes, 119 oversize boxes, 62 card file boxes, 87 audio trays, 1 motion picture film, 3434 digital files (525.6 Linear Feet)

For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

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.