California Historical Society

California Historical Society
AbbreviationCHS
Established1871
Founded atSanta Clara, California
Legal statusOfficial historical society of California
PurposePreserving and promoting Californian history
HeadquartersSan Francisco, California
Coordinates37°47′12.64″N 122°24′5.33″W / 37.7868444°N 122.4014806°W / 37.7868444; -122.4014806
Interim CEO
Jen Whitley
Chief Operating Officer
Jen Whitley
Publication
California History
WebsiteOfficial website

The California Historical Society (CHS) is the official historical society of California. It was founded in 1871, by a group of prominent Californian intellectuals at Santa Clara University.[1][2] It was officially designated as the Californian state historical society in 1979.[3][4][5] Its headquarters are in San Francisco, though it hosts exhibits and collections across California.

History

John W. Dwinelle led a group of prominent Californian intellectuals in founding the society at Santa Clara University in June 1871.

The California Historical Society was founded in June 1871 by a group of prominent Californian politicians and professors at the Santa Clara University (then the College of Santa Clara), led by Californian Assemblyman John W. Dwinelle (an influential founder of the University of California).[2][1] The stated mission of the society was “collecting and bringing to light and publishing, from time to time, all information not generally accessible on the subject of the early colonization and settlement of the west coast of America, and especially Northwestern Mexico, California, and Oregon.[2] The society published 32 papers until 1901. From 1901 to 1906, the CHS temporarily merged with the California Genealogical Society. Following the devastation of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the society fell into dormancy until 1922.[2]

In 1922, the society was permanently reestablished by Templeton Crocker, famed expeditionary of the California Academy of Sciences.[6] In 1979 the organization was named the official state historical society, in a bill signed by Governor Jerry Brown.[3][4][5]

The Society maintains a collection of historical documents, photographs, art and other research materials, awards the annual California Historical Society Book Prize, and publishes California History, an academic journal, in association with the University of California Press.[7] It occasionally hosts C-SPAN lectures on California history.[8] Exhibitions have included a 2015 celebration at the Palace of Fine Arts of the centenary of the Panama–Pacific International Exposition, and the Society sponsored the 50th anniversary celebration of the Summer of Love in 2017.[5]

The Society hired Alicia Goehring as executive director and CEO in September 2019, after Anthea Hartig became director of the National Museum of American History.[5][9] Following Goehring's death in August 2022, the Society named COO Jen Whitley as its interim CEO.[10]

Locations

  • Headquarters of the CHS throughout history
  • Wells Fargo Building, 1922–38
    Wells Fargo Building, 1922–38
  • Flood Building, 1955
    Flood Building, 1955
  • Whittier Mansion, 1956–95
    Whittier Mansion, 1956–95
  • Builders Exchange, 1995–2024
    Builders Exchange, 1995–2024

Shortly after its most recent refounding in 1922, the Society leased Room 508 of the Wells Fargo Building (at Second and Mission) as its headquarters.[6] Subsequently, the Society moved its offices to 456 McAllister (sharing the Pioneer Hall building near City Hall with the Society of California Pioneers) in 1938[11] and the Flood Building as a temporary home in 1955 when the Pioneer society was expanding.[12][13]: Note 10 

The society bought the Whittier Mansion in Pacific Heights as its headquarters in 1956, subsequently adding an adjacent building.[5] In 1993 it sold both and bought the San Francisco Builders Exchange Building, at 678 Mission Street which had housed E. M. Hundley Hardware and served as headquarters for Nancy Pelosi's first campaign for Congress; the building was gutted and rehabilitated, and the Society moved in 1995.[14] In 2012, when the Golden Gate Bridge was 75 years old, the Society had its facade painted international orange, the color of the bridge.[4][5]

For several years the Society studied the feasibility of moving to the Old San Francisco Mint building, which would be renovated to house a museum and a community center.[5][9][15] Although the society has hosted educational events as well as exhibitions at its San Francisco headquarters, in July 2020 the society announced that it was putting that building up for sale, to reduce costs, and that it planned to house its research library and store its collection in dispersed locations and organize touring exhibitions to appear at venues including local historical societies throughout the state.[5] In June 2024, the 20,000-square-foot headquarters building was sold for nearly $6.7 million, to the San Francisco Baking Institute.[16]

Collections

April Showers in Napa Valley; oil on canves by Jules Tavernier, c. 1880.
Mission Santa Clara de Asís baptismal records from 1839; manuscripts collection.

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.[17] 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.[17]

Fine Art Collection

The Historical Society houses an outstanding collection of over 5,000 works of art, including paintings, drawings, and lithographs. Artists represented in the Fine Art Collection include Albert Bierstadt, Maynard Dixon, George Albert Frost, William Hahn, Thomas Hill, Grace Carpenter Hudson, William Keith, Arthur Frank Mathews, and Theodore Wores.[18]

Manuscripts Collection

The Historical Society holds the papers of noteworthy organizations and businesses, including those of the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, League of Women Voters, California Tomorrow, Stern Grove Festival Association, Peoples Temple, and the Heller Ehrman law firm. The Society also holds the papers of influential persons, including the Burr-Allyne Family, San Francisco Mayor James Rolph, Jr, Asbury Harpending, and Isaias W. Hellman.[19]

Photograph of Reginaldo Francisco del Valle from the Californios collection, c. 1878.

Ephemera Collection

The ephemera collection consists of a wide range of ephemera pertaining to the state of California and each of its constituent counties.

Dating from 1841 the collection includes ephemera created by or related to churches; civic associations and activist groups; clubs and societies, especially fraternal organizations; labor unions; auditoriums and theaters; historic buildings, landmarks, and museums; hotels and resorts; festivals and fairs; sporting events; hospitals, sanatoriums, prisons, and orphanages; schools, colleges, and universities; government agencies; elections, ballot measures, and political parties; infrastructure and transit systems; geographic features; and other subjects.

Label for Southern Cross lemons from 1937; ephemera collection.

In 1964, former Society president, printing historian, and collector George L. Harding founded the Kemble Collection on Western Printing and Publishing, named in honor of pioneer California printer and publisher Edward Cleveland Kemble. Dedicated to the history of printing and publishing in the West, this collection began with three major gifts—Harding's printing and publishing library, William E. Loy's typographical library, and the business archives of San Francisco printing firm Taylor & Taylor—and has since grown in size and scope.[20][21]

Photography Collection

The Historical Society holds documentary and fine art photographs by photographers such as Marliese Gabrielson, Arnold Genthe, Louis Herman Heller, Eadweard Muybridge, Anton Wagner, Carleton Watkins, Minor White and Willard Worden.[17]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Irvine, Leigh. "A History of the New California", 1903
  2. ^ a b c d California Historical Society - About
  3. ^ a b "Law section". California Legislative Information.
  4. ^ a b c "About" California Historical Society website
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h Sam Whiting (July 19, 2020). "Datebook: California Historical Society to sell building and spread out statewide". San Francisco Chronicle.
  6. ^ a b "California Historical Society 1852-1922". California Historical Society Quarterly. 1 (1): 9–22. March 1922. doi:10.2307/25613565.
  7. ^ "California History". California History. 1978. ISSN 0162-2897. OCLC 3937507.
  8. ^ "California Historical Society". San Francisco: C-SPAN.
  9. ^ a b Sam Whiting (September 3, 2019). "Datebook: California Historical Society hires new director from Wisconsin". San Francisco Chronicle.
  10. ^ California Historical Society announcement of death of Alicia Goehring.
  11. ^ Watson, Douglas S. (1938). "The Society's New Quarters". California Historical Society Quarterly. 17 (1): 74. doi:10.2307/25160756.
  12. ^ Knowland, Joseph R. (1956). "Report of the President: For the Year Ending December 31, 1955". California Historical Society Quarterly. 35 (1): 74–76. doi:10.2307/25155035.
  13. ^ Baird Jr., Joseph Armstrong (1969). "The Mansion of the California Historical Society, 2090 Jackson Street, San Francisco". California Historical Society Quarterly. 48 (4): 308–324. doi:10.2307/25154392.
  14. ^ Bloomfield, Anne B. (Winter 1995). "A History of the California Historical Soceity's New Mission Street Neighborhood". California History. 74 (4): 372–393. doi:10.2307/25177533.
  15. ^ Lizzie Johnson (April 1, 2016). "California Historical Society to take on fixing up the Old Mint". San Francisco Chronicle.
  16. ^ Waxmann, Laura (9 August 2024). "Celebrated S.F. pastry chef makes two big downtown investments amid tumbling real estate values". SFChronicle. Retrieved 10 August 2024.
  17. ^ a b c "Collection Overview: California Historical Society". californiahistoricalsociety.org. Retrieved 2016-04-15.
  18. ^ "Bridgeman Images". Bridgeman Images. Retrieved 2016-04-15.
  19. ^ "California Historical Society, Online Archive of California". www.oac.cdlib.org. Retrieved 2016-04-15.
  20. ^ "California Ephemera Collection CA EPH". www.oac.cdlib.org. Retrieved 2016-04-15.
  21. ^ "About the Library: California Historical Society". californiahistoricalsociety.org. Retrieved 2016-04-15.
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