Pictured in circa 1900, at the northeast corner of Twelfth and ""H"" Streets, is the City Brewery. It was established in 1856 by German expatriates Wilhelm Borchers and Benedict Hilbert. The two-story structure was made of brick, rested on a lot...
The venerable Breuner's furniture store rests at its 604 K Street location in 1945. John Breuner - after sailing around Cape Horn in the early 1850s - started his business in 1856 and it stayed in operation for over 120 years. Bruener's was...
Pictured in circa 1960 are the Karl’s Shoes are 620 K Street and Breuner’s Furniture at 600 through 618 K Street. Karl’s – a chain store – had been a K Street fixture since the late-1920s while Bruener’s had been a Sacramento...
This 1960 photograph offers a view of 1201 Front, location of the Stanford Brothers store during the Gold Rush era. Notes with the photograph date that store to 1856. Jon's Home Furniture (1213 Front Street) was formerly a wholesale paper...
Ledyard Frink was an early Sacramento pioneer who came overland with his wife in a covered wagon, reaching Sacramento on September 1, 1850. He built a hotel on the southwest corner of Seventh and K Streets in the early 1850's and was a member of...
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, staffed an exhibit booth at the 1996 California State Fair. In this photograph, an ITT representative assists an exhibit visitor in a demonstration of a computer program.
Aerial view of Sacramento High School campus, 1926. The actual address of the school was 2315 Thirty-fourth Street. The stadium and playing fields lie just beyond the campus. In the upper center of the photograph are the outskirts of the City...
The facade of the Leland Stanford Mansion at 800 N Street was captured with this 1955 photograph. Designed by San Francisco-based architect Seth Babson, and originally built in 1856 by Gold Rush merchant Sheldon Fogus, the home was eventually...
Shown in this 1955 photograph, taken at Sutter's Fort, is the wedding dress, worn by Martha Jane Reed, a survivor of the infamous Donner Party. She married Frank Lewis, in Santa Cruz, California, on Christmas Day 1856. Sutter's Fort is located at...
Taken from the south, this May 1956 aerial photograph captures Sacramento High School at Thirty-Fourth and W Streets. Y Street runs east- west in the foreground while Thirty-Fourth Street runs north-south to the far left of the photograph. The...
This 1960 phothograph of Breuner's at 600 K Street, and Goodwill Industries Department Store at 1117 Sixth Street, was taken from the northwest coerner of Sixth and K Streets. Resting at the business's original 1856 location, the pictured building...
This 1912 photograph shows the front of Sacramento High School, located on 1816 K Street. Although in existence since 1856, the pictured location opened in 1908, operating as the high school until its move to a more modern building at...
Shown in circa 1930 is Sacramento High School, located at Thirty-Fourth and Y streets. Considered to be the second oldest high school west of the Mississippi River, founded in 1856, the pictured incarnation of the school was built in 1924.
This circa 1905 postcard shows a steamboat race coming off in a tightly packed Sacramento River. Steamer racing had been conducted on the river, and around Sacramento, going back to the 1850s, one of the first taking place in November 1856 between...
This circa 1956 postcard shows a Christmas window display at Breuner's Furniture, located at 600 K Street. A regional fixture from 1934 to 1971, the displays offered animated, three-quarter-sized figures living out Holiday scenes. The company...
This circa 1956 postcard shows a portion of its time-honored tradition of hliday window diplaying. On the back of the card, it reads: "Breuner's 22nd musical, moving Christmas display shows the whole family out for a ride on Christmas Day in...
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...
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...
