The Calohornia History Association, which has faced many years of financial tasks that has deteriorated by Coronovirus pandemic, has decided to dissolve the collection to Stanford University and transfer.
The association, which was founded in 1871 and designated the State official History Association in 1979, is one of the oldest historical organizations in California. However, abnormally among the nation's historical society, the leadership said that it did not receive regular funding.
Tony Gonzales, chairman of the organization, said that the decision to dissolve the organization headquartered in San Francisco was “bittersweet.” However, he emphasized that the agreement with Stanford has ensured that the collection of the association, including more than 600,000 items dating back a century before the gold rush, remained the same, making it easier to access.
“We think it's a playback,” Gonzales said. “Stanford is not a State History Association, but the collection will be better with them than to be with us.”
Social treasures include books, pamphlets, product labels, trading catalogs, and other items produced in the western part of the United States between 1802 and 2001, and other items. Northern California's Citizens' Freedom Union and California Flower Market founded by Japanese American flower merchants in 1912.
In 1978, the members led by Jim Jones were also official repositories related to the temple of a poisoned person in Giona in 1978, and more than 900 children died.
Ann -Rai, a librarian for the external relationship of Stanford University, calls the collection of the History Association as a unique property of over 15 million items, especially in the early history of California. It helps to fill the gap.
The Board of Directors' decision to dissolve society and relocate the collection will follow the 10 -year failed attempt in the turn around.
In 2016, San Francisco was deprived as a potential partner for the potential recovery of the old US Mint in downtown San Francisco, one of the few structures to survive the 1906 earthquake and fire. However, recovery of buildings, which had not been used for decades, was considered expensive.
In early 2020, the group sold a 20,000 -square -footed building near Union Square and announced a new strategic plan that uses profits to support travel shows and partnerships with small organizations in the state. However, the effort was prevented by the unexpected death of Alicia L. Gailling, an executive director and highest executive officer who supported the formulation of 2022 plans in the San Francisco real estate market. 。
Gonzales, a Sacramento lawyer who participated in the Board in 2012, has been approaching his own philanthropy because many Foundation and donors have been approaching efforts to solve social issues away from humanities. He stated that he has become unreliable in the past 20 years. And, unlike other states with a robust historical society, he said that California Congress had never provided a regular budget for operation support.
According to Gonzales in 2022, the group demanded a one -time $ 12 million subsidy to support the partnership with the California Riverside School.
The request has been rejected. “Congress gave us the same answer to what we heard from a charity, which sounds like what the university should do,” said Gonzales.
The group has received $ 5 million in the building to cover the budget of about $ 3.5 million that Gen Hoitley, the provisional executive director of the group, is about $ 3.5 million.
However, the finances were not yet implemented, and last summer, the Board of Directors voted to start the dissolution process. According to San Francis Coclonicle, four years after the first list, a former hardware store, which depicts the same red color as the Golden Gate Bridge, was sold at nearly $ 6.7 million.
Based on the dissolution conditions that had to be approved by the State Corporation, Stanford will also receive a donation of about $ 3.2 million. For the past few years, most of the two -do staff have been released, but whitley said that three people would move to Stanford in collection.
Gonzales said it was painful to see history losing footprint in San Francisco. But Stanford's collection stewardship would make it possible to make continuous discoveries of new stories about the past.
He quoted an example of Juanabrion, a businessman and healer born in Santa Cruz, who lived under three flags in California in 1802: Spain, Mexico, American. In 2011, local conservatives helped save some of the Adobewall from the home of Palo Alto, which was the center of the Bilingal Exhibition at the History Association.
“We all know about gold rush,” said Gonzales. “But some of these have no name.”
