This circa 1900 postcard shows a Sacramento City welcoming party, hailing down the steamer Edward Everett. Leaving Boston in January 1849, arrived on the Sacramento River in Summer 1849, its party of 170 intent of three things: the discovery of...
This postcard shows G.V. Cooper's 1849 lithograph of Sacramento, as viewed from the west side of the Sacramento River. Prominent are the intersection of J Street and Front Street. To the right of intersection is the Sam Brannan's Mansion House...
Pictured in 1880 is Sacramento physician, Dr. Gregory W. Phelan. Born in New York State in 1822, Phelan came to Sacramento in 1849 as part of the Gold Rush. He soon thereafter started a medical practice which would operate until 1870. Outside of...
Mrs. Elizabeth Richardson, pictured here circa 1873, was the wife of dairyman John Frink Richardson. Born in England in October 1817; she came to the United States in 1841 and settled in Sacramento in 1849. Upon arriving in the young city, she...
Taken in 1957, this photograph shows the weathered facades of the Hub Hotel and Tavern at 224 J Street and the Lincoln Room at 226 J Street. The building housing the Hub was erected by wholesale merchant and Kentuckian Edward P. Figg after the...
Captured in 1960, this photograph reveals the Samuel Brannan Building, built in 1853, at 1007 through 1009 Front Street. It was at this same spot - in February 1849 and at the southeast corner of J and Front Streets - that Brannan built a...
A darkened and flooded American River swells over its banks near Folsom in January 1997. The tropical, El Nino-style storm, which left 6.79 inches of rainfall in the Sacramento area, followed similar events in 1995, 1987, and 1982. Sacramento's...
Pictured on May 5, 1945, is the Capital National Bank, located at 700 J Street. Covering an 80 by 87 foot frontage, the building’s exterior was composed of California granite and with window frames of bronze. The eight-ton girders used to...
This circa 1955 photograph provides a view of Temple B'Nai Israel, a synagogue located at 3600 Riverside Boulevard. Founded in 1849 during a meeting at the Front Street home of merchant Moses Hyman, the congregation's first home was a small wooden...
This "Sacramento Historical Landmark" sign was posted on Front Street between I and J Streets. It reads: City Hotel Here Sacramento City's first major hotel was built in 1849 of timbers originally in John Sutter's grist mill. Erected by Hotel...
Resting at the southwest corner of Fifteenth and J Streets, in circa 1910, is the St. Paul's Episcopal Church. Founded in 1849, the church was first composed of wood. After a 1901 gale that demolished it St. Paul's was moved to the pictured 1430...
This circa 1895 postcard provides an image of the Plaza Park, bordered by I and J streets and Ninth and Tenth streets, and as seen from the park's southwest corner. Plaza Park was one of the original 10 city blocks granted to the City of...
An artist's rendition of the Mechanic's Exchange Hotel as it appeared in 1849, a large wooden shack with with two doors and two windws. There is no explanation for the statue (wooden?) of a Native American holding a rifle at the left of the...
This circa 1976 postcard shows Second Street, between I and J streets, in Old Sacramento. The rehabilitation of the historic area came with the January 1961 approval of the California State Parks Commission to create a State Historic Park in the...
This postcard shows the Great Seal of the State of California as represented in stained glass. Installed in 1907 in the ceiling of the hallway leading from the California State Capitol building rotunda, the final composition for the Seal was...
Shown in circa 1958 is the interior of the Old Tavern, located at Twenty-Eighth Street and Capitol Avenue. The two story stucco and wood Bavarian half-timber-style structure can draw its origins to 1849, when it was established as a brewery. Over...
Shown in this circa 1960 postcard is the reenacted publishing room of the "Placer Times" newspaper, set in Sutter's Fort, at Twenty-Seventh and K streets. The paper was started at the fort in April 1849, running through June 1950. One of its...
Established in 1849, the city was formed along the waterfront and extended up J Street toward Sutter’s Fort. The Old Sacramento District is a national historic landmark due to its rich place in California’s history. A quarter of a million...
Sacramento High School is located at 2315 Thirty-Fourth Street in Sacramento, California. Founded just one week after San Francisco’s Lowell High School opened its doors in mid-August 1856, “Sac High” has matured into the second oldest high...
