The State - News from April 16, 1989
A financial emergency has forced the California Historical Society to close the doors of its Pacific Avenue library in San Francisco and lay off about half its staff of 21, directors said. The library is filled with photographs, artifacts, diaries, manuscripts and historic documents of early California. Although the library will be closed to the public indefinitely, the collection will be maintained, safeguarded and insured, according to executive director Nathan Sumner.
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