Who's behind the news?
Who's behind the news?
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Use of Data
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The San Diego City Clerk's Archives and Digital Archives is the official archival arm of the Office of the City Clerk of San Diego, California. It holds and provides access to official city records dating from the mid-19th century to the present, with a particular strength in materials from San Diego's pre-statehood Mexican period through the early 20th century. The Digital Archives portal at sandiego.gov/digitalarchives makes a substantial portion of these materials freely available online for research, scholarship, and public use.
The City Clerk's archives function developed as San Diego's government accumulated records over nearly two centuries of municipal history. The archive preserves documents from the Mexican Period of San Diego's history (1835–1849), transition-to-statehood records, and an extensive run of official city government records including ordinances, resolutions, council minutes, correspondence, maps, photographs, and special collections on notable historical events and figures.
Among the notable Special Collections are: the Alonzo E. Horton Document Collection; records of Charles Lindbergh Week; the Rainmaking and Charles Hatfield collection (1914–1948); railroad franchise materials for the San Diego and Arizona Railroad and other lines; the Kate O. Sessions horticultural records (1891–1940); the U.S.S. Bennington 1905 Disaster collection; World War I participation documents; the 1935–36 California Pacific International Exposition collection; and elected and appointed city officials biographical records from 1850 to the present. Each Special Collection has been digitized and made word-searchable.
The archive holds materials relating to San Diego's press history, including newspaper clippings documenting major city events, and regulatory records for signs, billboards, and theatre marquees, providing insight into the development of San Diego's public communications landscape.
The Digital Archives are freely accessible at sandiego.gov/digitalarchives. For physical research, the City Clerk's Archives are located at 202 C Street, San Diego, CA 92101, open Monday through Friday, 8:00–17:00. The archive email is cityclerk@sandiego.gov and phone is 619-236-6885.
San Diego City Clerk – Archives & Digital Archives
202 C Street, San Diego, CA 92101
Phone: (619) 236-6885
Email: cityclerk@sandiego.gov
Website: sandiego.gov/digitalarchives