Society of California Pioneers Library

Currently closed while the Society moves to its new location at Pioneer Hall in the San Francisco Presidio, the library and museum plan to reopen in the summer of 2014. Established in 1850, The Society of California Pioneers is a not-for-profit museum, library, and cultural organization dedicated to advancing the knowledge and appreciation of early California history.

The Society will reopen Pioneer Hall – their public museum, research library and administrative office currently located South of Market – in the new 101 Montgomery Street location this summer.

Society of California Pioneers Library 101 Montgomery Street San Francisco, CA 94107-1272 Telephone: 415-957-1849 Fax: 415-957-9858 E-Mail: [mailto:info@californiapioneers.org info@californiapioneers.org] Internet: http://www.californiapioneers.org/ Pioneers collection has Spanish and Mexican eras materials, records about pioneer travels overland and around the Horn, the Gold Rush and later mining ventures, urbanization and the construction of the railroads, 1906 earthquake, biographical information and county files and indexes on early pioneers and notables, local histories, directories, diaries, papers, maps, newspapers, periodicals and California history to 1900.