Monterey County Historical Society
Monterey County Historical Society
- Location: Salinas, CA
- Phone: (831) 757-8085
- Website: http://mchsmuseum.com/salinas/
Founded in 1933, and incorporated in 1955, the Monterey County Historical Society is a non-profit organization dedicated to the ongoing preservation of our own past. The Society is responsible for a massive collection of family, city and county archival materials. These rare and valuable documents are housed in our temperature and humidity controlled archival vault. Scholars, authors, students, attorneys and the public are using these historical documents for research purposes at an ever-increating rate.
To better serve the public, the Society is in the process of building an agricultural museum and research center that will make a significant contribution to our county in the field of education of our youth and outreach to the public. The primary emphasis of this facility will be on the cultures and the people who made this area what it is today.
Collections at this institution
California Revealed from Monterey County Historical Society
California Revealed is a State Library initiative to help California’s public libraries, in partnership with other local heritage groups, digitize, preserve, and provide online access to archival materials - books, newspapers, photographs, audiovisual recordings, and more - that tell the incredible stories of the Golden State. We also provide free access and preservation services for existing digital collections for partner organizations with in-house digitization programs. California Revealed is supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.
Institution: Monterey County Historical Society
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