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Saturday Closures: Beginning November 1, 2015, the research rooms at the National Archives at Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Fort Worth, Kansas City, New York, Philadelphia, Riverside, San Francisco and Seattle, will no longer be open on Saturdays. Research rooms will continue to be open to the public Monday-Friday.
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Research rooms will close at 3 p.m. on Thursday, December 24, and be closed December 25–27 and January 1–2. Museums in Washington, DC, and at the Presidential libraries are closed on Christmas Day, and library museums are closed on New Year's Day. See the full schedule for the winter holidays.

Scheduled maintenance between 10 p.m. EST, Saturday, December 12, and 1 a.m. EST, Sunday, December 13, may interrupt access to Archives.gov. We apologize for any inconvenience.

What's New

We are updating our web page with information on our holdings including our Immigration and A Files. Please check back soon.
For details about the release of the A-Files and dedication of the Tom Lantos Research Center see this media alert.
1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire
View our online exhibit with documents about the earthquake aftermath
Visit the online Exhibit, The Deadly Virus: The Influenza Epidemic of 1918, featuring holdings from the National Archives at Riverside and San Francisco.

National Archives at San Francisco

The holdings of the National Archives at San Francisco include over 70,000 cubic feet of original records dating from the 1850s to the 1980s, with a limited number of records as recent as the early 2000s. These records were generated by the Federal courts and more than 100 Federal agency field offices in:

California (northern and central)
Nevada (except Clark County)
Hawaii
American Samoa
Guam
former Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands
i.e. Marshall, Caroline, and Northern Mariana Islands

Our holdings also include records of U.S. Navy bases on foreign territory in the Pacific and Far East.

Our holdings are a primary resource for the study of Asian-Pacific immigration, environmental and natural history, naval and military activity in the Pacific, the American Indian experience, and many other aspects of United States history.
Learn more about our holdings and the areas they cover

We also have a large collection of National Archives microfilm relating to the history of our region as well as limited genealogical records from elsewhere in the United States. Our Research Room public access computers provide free, on-site access to several genealogical web sites.

The National Archives at San Francisco is located in the Leo J. Ryan Memorial Federal Building in San Bruno, California and is home to the Tom Lantos Research Center.

Contact Us

Call us for an appointment at (650) 238-3501.
Please wait for confirmation from our staff of your appointment time and date before traveling to our facility.

Address:

Leo J. Ryan Memorial Federal Building
1000 Commodore Drive
San Bruno, California 94066-2350

Phone: (650) 238-3501

E-mail: sanbruno.archives@nara.gov

Directions:

The facility is located in San Bruno, California, approximately 12 miles south of San Francisco, about 5 minutes from San Francisco International Airport.

Hours:

Monday-Friday by appointment. Our hours are Monday - Friday, 7:30-4:00.
Please wait for a confirmation from our staff of your appointment time and date before traveling to our facility.

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