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...
The first Sacramento County Courthouse at the corner of Seventh and I Streets was completed in time for Christmas in 1851. The structure served the California State Legislature during 1852 and 1854 before it burned to the ground during a fire that...
This circa 1900 photograph captures an omnibus from Sacramento’s Western Hotel. The Western was first built in 1854, but felled by fire in 1875. It was rebuilt that same year by Sacramento hostelling luminary William Land who went on to found...
This 1865 photograph offers a view down J Street, showing, to the right, both the Metropolitan Baths and B.F. Hastings and Company. Hastings was a long standing bank in Sacramento and held distinction as the western terminus of the Pony Express...
The Turnverein Building on 3349 J Street is the subject of this photograph, taken in 1925, the same year that the structure was built. The cornerstone for the 100,000 dollar building was laid on October 25, 1925, enabling the organization to move...
The corner of K Street at Ninth is occupied by Leon's Club, a tavern (228 K Street), Dave's Mens Wear (230 K Street) on the street level, the Hotel St. Claire (228 K Street), El Prado Hotel (226 K Street), Ringside Second Hand Store (226 K Street),...
ITT Technical Institute, located at 9700 Goethe Road, sponsors sports teams for its students. In this November 1996 photograph, an ITT Technical Institute intramural basketball team poses for a group photo inside a gym.
Photograph circa 1949 of the back of the Sacramento County Courthouse featuring sheriffs posing with their vehicles. Construction on the first county courthouse at Seventh Street and I began in 1850 and the building opened late in 1851, only to be...
This evening photograph of the American Trust Company’s 1011 Tenth Street branch was taken on March 3, 1951. The company established itself in Sacramento with a mere ten employees at the corner of Seventh and J Streets. By the time this...
Pictured in April 1954 is the American Trust Company’s one-hundredth anniversary gala, held at the bank’s 1011 Tenth Street location. Standing before the celebratory cake – topped with 100 candles – are, left to right, H. Stephen Chase,...
Shown in 2002 are three homes, located on the north side of F Street -- left to right, 1017, 1021, and 1029 -- in the Alkali Flat section of Sacramento. To the far right of the frame is the J. Neely Johnson House which, built in 1854, has been a...
This postcard depicts the Sacramento County Courthouse, to the right, and the Hall of Records, to the left, at the northwest corner of Seventh and I Streets. Built in 1854, the courthouse was done in a Greco-Roman Ionic style, an imperative design...
This circa 1980 postcard shows the Crocker Art Gallery at Second and O streets, as seen from Third Street. The gallery provides stands as the most robust symbol of the Crocker legacy and a Sacramento saga that started with Edwin and Margaret...
As shown in this circa 1900 postcard, the second Sacramento County Courthouse built on the northwest corner of Seventh and I streets, was 80-feet wide, 120-feet deep and measured 61-feet from street to rooftop. The cost for the multi-purpose...
This circa 1910 postcard depicts Plaza Park, as viewed from the southeast. As early as 1854, the plan was to set the block aside as the location for the California State Capitol building. With 300,000 dollars in hand, the commenced construction,...
Originally constructed in 1854, and then rebuilt in 1875 was the brick, three-story Western Hotel at 215 K Street. Set in a Sacramento evening, this postcard shows the bustle surrounding the business which had a K Street frontage of 100 feet and a...
This circa 2000 postcard, taken within the Old Sacramento State Historic Park, shows a carriage making its way along Second Street, between J and K streets, and by the B.F. Hastings building. Constructed in 1852/53, it stood as the headquarters...
This 1997 postcard shows the Discovery Museum, located at 101 I Street. At the time this photograph was taken, the museum's mission sought to educate through interactive exhibits covering science, history and technology. It was established in...
Sacramento Room Postcard Collection
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