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.
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, 117 oversize boxes, 62 card file boxes, 1 motion picture film, digital files.
(464 linear feet)
Restrictions
Publication Rights
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives
Availability
Access
Boxes 5-256 and 681-740 closed until 2018 January 1. The remainder of the collection is open for research.
Access to audiovisual materials requires at least two weeks advance notice.
Audiovisual materials include sound recordings, video recordings, and motion picture film.
Hoover staff will determine whether use copies of the materials requested can be
made available. Some materials may not be accessible even with advance notice. Please
contact the Hoover Institution Archives for further information.