Sacramento Room Digital Collections

- California State Capitol in 1879
- 1879
- This 1879 photograph captures a youngish California State Capitol building as viewed from the corner of Tenth and L Streets. The building's raised posture was due to a desire to avoid flooding. Accordingly, in 1862, workers hauled wheelbarrows of...
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- Second Street Between J and K Streets
- 1863
- The Union Hotel dominates this circa 1862 view of the west side of Second Street, between J and K Streets. Several people stand in front of the hotel while some stand on the balcony overlooking the street. Notes on the picture identify this...
- 1173
- State Capitol and Grounds, Sacramento, Cal.
- 1900
- This circa 1900 postcard shows the California State Capitol building, as viewed from the northwest. Visible is ground level around the building, which was raised by 10 feet after the epic floods of 1861 and 1862. To the far right of the frame is...
- Sacramento Room Postcard Collection
- Old Sacramento, Railroad Museum
- 2000
- This circa 2000 postcard provides three views of locomotives on display at the California State Railroad Museum. "The finest Railroad Museum in North America. Dozens of restored locomotives and cars.." is the the description from the back of the...
- Sacramento Room Postcard Collection
- J Street, Looking East from Tenth Street, Showing Plaza, Sacramento, Cal. - E.C. Kropp
- 1909
- This circa 1909 postcard, labeled in error, shows J Street, looking west, from its intersection with Tenth Street. Street car rails fill J Street, while, to the right, is Plaza Park, the site of Sacramento's first hay scale, and what was...
- Sacramento Room Postcard Collection
- Aerial View of Rio Vista, California
- 1970
- This circa 1970 postcard shows the city of Rio Vista, California. Founded in the early 1850s by Colonel N.H. Davis at the junction of the Sacramento River and Cache Slough, the spot was originally called Brazos del Rio or "arms of the river." The...
- Sacramento Room Postcard Collection
- The Review, June 1908
- 1908-06-01
- 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 Review, 1929
- 1929-01-01
- 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...