This ceramic column was photographed in 1918. It was created by the Gladding, McBean Company, located on 601 Seventh Street in Lincoln, California. Founded in 1875 by Peter McGill McBean, George Chambers, and Charles Gladding, the company's terra...
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 1998 photograph shows the headstone of Georgia Fisher who died on December 27, 1875. She was aged 19 years, 10 months and 2 days. The elaborately carved plaque mounted on a red tile background features carved flowers and clasped hands. It...
Georgia Fisher died on December 27, 1875, from typhoid fever. She was aged 19 years, 10 months and 2 days. A memorial service was held at a residence at Twenty-Second and L streets, prior to interment at the City Cemetery, at Tenth and Y...
This photograph of the newly-completed American Trust Company building at 1011 Tenth Street was taken in 1938. The site had been the location of a nineteenth and early twentieth-century livery stable. By 1948, the structure had been expanded to...
In this frenetic photograph, taken in September 1895, a few of the 30,000 travelers that made their way to Sacramento for the Grand Electric Carnival and California Admission Day festivities are seen making their way to transportation and...
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 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...
Captured on the west side of Twelfth Street, between E and F Streets, is the home of blacksmith Walter Bennett, at 512 Twelfth Street. Water was the son of Henry Bennett, a Canadian who immigrated to Sacramento in the 1875 and opened his Alkali...
Resting between Fifteenth and Sixteenth streets and J and K streets, and facing J Street in circa 1875, is Sacramento Grammar School. The three story, red brick structure was built in 1872/73, then razed in the mid-1920s to make room for the...
Shown in 1890, at its Capitol Park location, is the State Printing Office. Opened in November 1875 as part of a repurposing of what had been intended to be the Governor's Mansion, in an odd marriage, the office shared the building with the State...
This circa 1890 postcard shows the entrance to the State Printing Office, as seen from Fifteenth Street. Located in Capitol Park, contained a bindery, as well as electrotyping, box making, and warehouse facilities. It was converted into...
Shown in circa 1910 is a river barge, plying its way along the Sacramento River. For nearly a century and beginning in 1875, River Lines provided transport for cargo - canned goods, rice, and wool - from Sacramento to Colusa, From Sacramento to...
Growing children with no available outlet for further education was incentive enough for sixteen elementary school districts to establish California’s first union high school in Elk Grove. The initial building was housed in what is now Old Town...
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