Who is Participating

12 institutions are participating in the 2019 crawl.

Archives of the Archdiocese of San Francisco
The Archives of the Archdiocese of San Francisco (AASF) is located at Saint Patrick Seminary and University in Menlo Park, and serves as the official repository for the records of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco (established in 1853). The AASF maintains historical records and materials related to the history of California prior to its admission to the United States in addition to those reflective of the Bay Area's richly diverse Catholic heritage and history, and covers significant periods of growth, expansion, and changes both within the Church and local regions. Collections include the official records of archbishops and bishops, institutional and administrative records, and a Special Collections comprising of over 100 individual collections of donated archival materials and records from individuals and archdiocesan entities involved with regional Catholic movements and organizations, social justice causes, lay ministries, Catholic education, and parish activities.

California Historical Society (2019 Host Site)
The California Historical Society (CHS) collections started in 1922 when Templeton C. Crocker donated his extensive private collection of rare books, manuscripts, maps, newspapers, and periodicals. The Crocker Collection—with its emphasis on voyages of discovery, Western overland travel, California's transition from a Mexican province to statehood, and the Gold Rush—remains at the heart of the CHS library collection today. CHS has continued to build on the strengths of this gift through the acquisition of books, photographs, personal papers, and collections from various California individuals, businesses, and organizations that cover the social, cultural, economic, and political history and development of California.

Currently CHS houses over 50,000 volumes of books and pamphlets, more than 4000 manuscript collections, and over 500,000 photographs providing stunning visual documentation of the state and its people from the 1850s to the present. The North Baker Research Library is open to the public, without appointment, Wednesdays through Fridays from 1 to 5 p.m. Please see the California Historical Society website for the latest information on open hours, programs, and exhibitions.

California State Archives
The California State Archives collects, catalogs, preserves, and provides access to the historic records of state government and some local governments. The Archives collection is primarily composed of records from California state agencies, the governor's office, the state legislature, and the State Supreme Court and Courts of Appeal. The records are organized under the name of the agency or office that transferred the records to the Archives. The collections also include some private papers that have been donated to the Archives.

The State Archives has specialized programs to collect and preserve records of state government. The Legislative Archives Program, Court Records Program and Governor's Records Program work with the three branches of Government to identify records of enduring value that should be preserved in the Archives. The State Records Appraisal Program works to identify and collect records of state agencies.

Environmental Design Archives
The Environmental Design Archives (EDA) is a non-profit research facility within the College of Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley committed to raising awareness of the architectural, landscape, and design heritage of Northern California and beyond, through collecting, preserving, and providing access to primary records of the built and designed environment.

The work of many San Francisco Bay region's historically significant architects, landscape architects, planners, and designers are represented in collections of more than 200 individuals and firms. These collections contain drawings, plans, specifications, photographs, audio-tapes, personal papers, business records, furniture, art, models, and artifacts.

The Environmental Design Archives provides access to primary source material for scholarly research, teaching support, curatorial use, preservation, and public service, and actively encourages and promotes the use of its collections.

GLBT Historical Society
The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender (GLBT) Historical Society collects, preserves, exhibits and makes accessible to the public materials and knowledge to support and promote understanding of LGBTQ history, culture and arts in all their diversity. Founded in 1985, the GLBT Historical Society is recognized internationally as a leader in the field of LGBTQ public history. Our operations are centered around two sites: our GLBT Historical Society Museum, located since 2011 in the heart of San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood; and our Dr. John P. De Cecco Archives and Research Center, open to researchers in the Mid-Market district.

Global Museum, SFSU
Opened in April 2018, the Global Museum at SF State is a place in which to appreciate the power of diverse communities in a globally connected world. The Global Museum houses outstanding permanent collections from Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas, and uses family and student-oriented exhibitions as the bases for innovative educational programming for SF State, the extended San Francisco community, and Bay Area school districts. Students in the undergraduate Minor and the graduate Master's programs in Museum Studies, as well as volunteers from other departments on campus, are involved in all aspects of museum operations.

Labor Archives & Research Center, SFSU (2019 Host Site)
Few regions can rival the rich, lively labor history of the San Francisco Bay Area. This history is preserved in primary source and vintage history materials at the Labor Archives and Research Center (LARC). Founded in 1985 by trade union leaders, historians, labor activists and university administrators, the Labor Archives is a unit of the J. Paul Leonard Library at San Francisco State University.

The Labor Archives collection includes materials from the counties surrounding San Francisco Bay, including Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, San Mateo, and Santa Clara. More than 6,000 feet of primary source material is available for research. From the beginning of the twentieth century to the present, a wide scope of Bay Area labor activity is represented. Many unions have made the Labor Archives the official repository for their historical records -- minutes, office correspondence, membership files, publications and contracts. Labor leaders, attorneys, arbitrators, and rank-and-file workers have donated their personal papers. Personal memorabilia, photographs, ephemera, and oral histories document the lives and stories of working men and women. Visual material, in addition to photographs, includes cartoons, banners, posters, prints, handbills, picket signs, and buttons.

National Archives at San Francisco
The National Archives at San Francisco is one of 15 research facilities nationwide where the public can access Federal archival records in person. Its holdings total over 77,000 cubic feet of historical records dating from the 1850s to the 2000s, created by more than 100 Federal agencies and courts in northern and central California, Nevada (except for Clark County), Hawaii, Guam, American Samoa and the American Territories.

The holdings of the National Archives at San Francisco are a major primary resource for the study of Asian-Pacific immigration, environmental and natural history, naval and military activity in the Pacific, the Native American experience, and many other aspects of United States history. Notable documents include after-action reports following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the Alcatraz inmate case file of Alphonse “Al” Capone, the immigration case file of Dr. Sun YatSen, and Federal court cases on the constitutionality of internment during World War II.

San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library
The Daniel E. Koshland San Francisco History Center contains a research collection of books, newspapers and magazines, photographs, maps, posters, archives and manuscript collections, and ephemera, documenting all aspects of San Francisco life and history. The Center is also the archives for the City and County of San Francisco.

SF MOMA
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is the largest museum of modern and contemporary art in the United States and a thriving cultural center for the Bay Area. Our remarkable collection of painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, design, and media arts, is housed in an LEED Gold-certified building designed by the global architects Snøhetta and Mario Botta. In addition to our seven gallery floors, SFMOMA offers 45,000 square feet of free, art-filled public space open to all.

SFMOMA believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. For that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections, create exhilarating exhibitions, and develop engaging public programs that connect with our community.

Sutro Library, California State Library
The Sutro Library is the legacy collection of San Francisco mayor, entrepreneur, and philanthropist Adolph Sutro (1830-1898). It houses over 100,000 rare books, manuscripts, maps, and ephemera dating from 12th through the 20th century. Intent on building a world-class public research library for the citizens of San Francisco, Sutro spent thousands of dollars buying books and entire lots at auction, as well as hiring agents to travel the world acquiring items. Among the many treasures at the Sutro Library are 30,000 broadsides and pamphlets covering Mexico from the 1600s-1800s; one of the largest collections of British History on the West coast; and of course Shakespeare’s First Folio. More recent acquisitions include the Women’s March protests of 2017 and 2018. Guides for this collection as well as a dozen other Sutro Library archival collections can be found on the Online Archive of California.

Sutro Library also has one of the largest genealogy collections west of Salt Lake City. The genealogy collection covers the entire country and also includes international resources. Some highlights of this collection include family & local histories; directories (city, phone, social); birth registers; cemetery inscriptions; various record indexes & abstracts; and genealogical & historical society publications. Sutro Library is also the host of the Bay Area Genealogy Calendar which serves as one place people can go to see what local and family history events are happening in the Bay Area.

To learn more about the Library’s collections, follow us on social media @SutroLibrary on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. Biweekly posts are published on the blog, The Sutronian with topics about the current exhibit, the genealogy collection or even the happenings at the Library.
The Sutro Library Reading Room is located on the 5th floor of the J. Paul Leonard Library on the SFSU campus. The Library is open Monday thru Friday, 10AM – 4PM except on state and university holidays. For more information, visit www.library.ca.gov/Sutro.

University Archives, SFSU
The University Archives traces the history of San Francisco State from a vocational school for teachers to a liberal arts college to its becoming a preeminent urban university as documented with its own records, images and artifacts. Since its inception in 1899, San Francisco State University has held a unique position as an institution of higher learning in the San Francisco Bay Area that has consistently promoted educational equity. The University Archives serves as the collective memory of San Francisco State University containing unique primary source materials about our University's colorful history.