This photograph was taken during the construction of the Buffalo Brewery on June 6, 1889. It was located on 1717 Twenty-first Street between Q and R Streets. Touted during its construction as "the most complete brewing establishment on the Pacific...
This January 1, 1900, photograph looks northerly from the dome of the California State Capitol building toward the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament at Eleventh and K Streets. The steeple on the immediate right of the photograph is that of the...
Shown on January 26, 1910, are the ornate altar and apse of the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacramento, located at 1017 Eleventh Street. Opened in 1889, the structure took three years to build. Its June 30, 1889 dediction included eighth separate...
This 1955 photograph shows the front of the Harry August Nauman Funeral Home at 2021 Twenty-Eighth Street. Nauman came to Sacramento from Pennsylvania in 1889 and went into the mortuary business after a stint as an executive with the John Breuner...
Photographed in 1955 is Jackson's Furniture Store as it sat on the southwest corner of Fourteenth and K Streets. Jacksons was started in Oakland, California, in 1889 by Henry Jackson. Jackson and his business holds considerable distinction for...
Taken on November 14, 1939, this photograph shows the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament at 1017 Eleventh Street. Several period cards are parked on Eleventh Street. Designed after Paris’s Church of the Holy Trinity and the passion of Bishop...
This westerly view, from the intersection of Twelfth and K Streets, was taken in 1939. On the right are the towering spires of the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament, built in 1889 for 250,000 dollars. Its design was directed by the Sacramento...
The three-part arched sign announces Oak Park, 1889, 1903 and street cars are stopped under the sign. Passengers (many are women) are seated on the open bench sections of the cars . Two of the cars in view have signs posted reading "SPECIAL...
Andy's Drive-In on North 16th street, on the night of February 17, 1939. This thriving restaurant was owned by Andrew J. Swenson and was listed in the February, 1939 telephone book (Main 8974). Surrounded by cars, a male customer is walking...
This 1928 photograph provides a view of the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament and the Hotel Senator from the California State Capitol building’s dome. Nestled between the hotel and church is the Weinstock, Lubin and Company department store. A...
This circa 1920 photograph shows a posing Edna Becsey. She sits on a stool, looking across her body at the camera and wearing a velvet hat and dress. Becsey, a second generation Sacramentan, was born in June 1889. She lived in Sacramento her...
This circa 1910 postcard shows the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacramento, at Eleventh and K Streets, as viewed from the southwest. Completed in 1889, the cathedral's design of a central bell tower and two flanking spires was inspired by the Church...
This postcard shows a statue dedicated to the memory of Andrew Jackson Stevens, a native of Vermont who went on to become a master builder of early Southern Pacific Railroad locomotives. Locted at Sacramento's Park Plaza at Ninth and J Streets,...
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...
This postcard provides a bird's eye view of Sacramento and K Street and seen from the west and the Federal building and Post Office, at Seventh and K, in circa 1910. Prominent are the steeples of the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacramento at Eleventh...
A miniature railroad is the subject of this circa 1910 postcard, set in the Oak Park section of Sacramento. Largely considered Sacramento's first amusement park, Oak Park, then later to be called Joyland, was founded in 1889. The park included a...
A banana plant grows in Sacramento in this circa 1900 postcard. What had been a mere curiosity to Americans for decades had, by the late nineteenth-century, become a staple as, in 1889, an estimated 1.2 billion bananas had been eaten by American...
Shown in circa 1900, at its Ninth and I Street perch is the Pythian Castle, or what the Sacramento Bee called "the most pretentious of the kind on the coast." Built for 25,000 dollars, the castle was dedicated on Thanksgiving Day 1889, serving all...
Children take in the novelty of riding on the Oak Park Amusement Park's miniature train, in this circa 1910 postcard. The park opened in 1889, the transport to which was provided, in many cases, by six closed streetcars, operating between downtown...
This circa 1900 postcard shows the Pythian Castle, resting at the northwest corner of Ninth and I streets. Built in 1889, it was the work of architect W.H. Hamilton and contractor E.A. Bovyer. The castle, built for 25,000 dollars, served four...
