This 1925 photograph shows the interior of the L Street Boxing Auditorium, located at 223 L Street. Built in 1916, the venue seated 4,000, but was known to have squeezed in 5,000 fans for major tickets. It was placed into what had been the old...
Gazing eastward, down K Street, is the camera that captured this photograph, taken on the evening of September 9, 1895. In the middle of frame is a pavilion of light, sitting over the intersection of Eighth and K Streets. It was estimated...
The 1950’s saw a period of population growth, increasing from 8,685 to an estimated 12,000. Sacramento, during that time, provided employment for 18,000 people with an annual payroll of approximately $90,000,000. The 40’s and 50’s also...
The 1950s saw a period of population growth, increasing from 8,685 to an estimated 12,000. Sacramento, during that time, provided employment for 18,000 people with an annual payroll of approximately $90,000,000. The 40s and 50s also brought to...
The 1950s saw a period of population growth, increasing from 8,685 to an estimated 12,000. Sacramento, during that time, provided employment for 18,000 people with an annual payroll of approximately $90,000,000. The 40’s and 50’s also brought...
The 1950s saw a period of population growth, increasing from 8,685 to an estimated 12,000. Sacramento, during that time, provided employment for 18,000 people with an annual payroll of approximately $90,000,000. The 40s and 50s also brought to...
“Wheat farming dominated the life and economy of the Sacramento Valley from 1867 until 1893.” Acreage of wheat planted increase from 200,000 in 1866 to 400,000 in 1873, increasing to 1,000,000 in 1882. By 1865 the price paid for California...
Pictured in 1952 is the recently completed McKesson and Robbins warehouse at the corner of Richards Boulevard and Seventh Street. Opened in the fall of 1950 and costing nearly $1,000,000, the facility was designed by the accomplished Sacramento...
In this October 1937 photograph, a revetment borders a section of the Sacramento River. Efforts to strengthen the levee system within the Sacramento-San Joaquin Flood Control Project were especially vigorous after the March 1936 breach of several...
This 1935 photograph shows an ivy-covered Libby, McNeill and Libby cannery, bordering Stockton Boulevard. On the left side of the photograph is the cannery’s first floor receiving area while just above is the can storage room. In September...
This 1935 photograph shows an ivy-covered Libby, McNeill and Libby cannery, bordering Stockton Boulevard. On the left side of the photograph is the cannery’s first floor receiving area while just above is the can storage room. In September...
The preparation room of the Libby, McNeill and Libby cannery is shown prominently in this 1935 photograph, taken from the corner of Thirty-First Street and Stockton Boulevard. As of March 1929, Sacramento’s four canneries were employing over...
This circa 1925 photograph shows a dilapidated Oak Park Methodist Episcopal Church at Thirty Fourth Street, between Fourth Avenue and Y Street. The congregation was formed in 1895 under the direction of Reverend F.A. Morrow, meeting at Oak...
The entrance to Grant Stadium at Grant Union High School is shown here in 1939. The venue was built the same year by the Works Progress Administration. Its design was intended to mirror that of Stanford University's Stanford Stadium, complete...
This circa 1930 photograph shows the fountain in front of the Sacramento Filtration Plant. Built in 1923/24 under the design of Henry D. Dewell, the structure was the first water filtration complex west of the Rocky Mountains. Its design called...
This 1961 photograph takes in three venerable examples of mid-to-late nineteenth century Sacramento architecture; left to right, the Golden Eagle Hotel, built between 1853 and 1860, the Post Office, built between 1890 and 1894, and the Ochsner...
Photograph, taken November 11, 1932, of a football game at Sacramento Stadium on the Sacramento Junior College campus, located at 3835 Freeport Boulevard. The stadium was later renamed Hughes Stadium on November 18, 1944. Built in 1928 for 140,000...
This circa 1947 postcard shows Mission Style homes in the Land Park neighborhood of Sacramento. Between 1924 and 1931, nearly 1,000 homes were built in the Land Park, valued at a combined 5,000,000 dollars. Prior to development, the land that...
Raising turkeys in Northern California was a profitable venture during the first decade of the 20th Century. Butte, Placer, Sacramento and Yolo Counties claimed nearly 400,000 of the birds during that time with a total valuation of over 2,000,000...
This circa 1928 postcard shows the California State Life Insurance Company's headquarters, located at 926 J Street. The 14-story building was built to contain 85,000 square feet of office space and 8,000 square feet of street level retail shops. ...
