This circa 1900 photograph shows a gathering crowd at the entrance to the Westminster Presbyterian Church at Sixth and L Streets. Built in 1867, the wooden structure had a frontage of 38 feet and a depth of 60 with a cost eclipsing 10,000...
This circa 1904 photograph reveals a cluttered Sacramento River waterfront. Taken from the I Street Bridge, the view stretches from roughly J Street to just beyond the Sacramento and Yolo Bridge at M Street. A series of riverboats are docked to...
This February 29, 1904, photograph captures flooding just below the Y Street Levee. The break in the levee occurred on February 27 near the Freeport Boulevard farm and residence of Eustace R. Edwards, resulting in the inundation and loss of nearly...
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 interior of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, is revealed in this photograph, taken in 1939, the same year that the church was built for 140,000 dollars. Located at 2231 Capitol Avenue, the large steel frame, concrete-reinforced structure...
This circa 1916 photograph shows the Westminster Presbyterian Church as it sits on the northwest corner of Thirteenth and K. Built in 1904 for a cost of 25,000 dollars, the brick structure was twice the size of its Sixth and L Street predecessor. ...
This 1928 photograph shows the mausoleum and administrative buildings of the East Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery at Forty-third Street and Folsom Boulevard. The 250,000 dollar mausoleum, constructed in 1925/26, was built by the Fresno-based Robert...
This daylight photograph of Woodall and Lehman Flowers and Gifts at 1510 L Street was taken on November 17, 1939. The pictured store was opened in 1939 by Herbert “Bert” Woodall and the first generation German-American Carl Lehman. Woodall...
This circa 1940 photograph reveals the southern face of the Ochsner Building and a few of its first floor business tenants. Resting at the corner of Seventh and K Streets, the building’s first three stories were built in 1904, while two more...
Taken in 1960, this photograph shows several storefronts, all on the north side of K Street. They include: Owl Cigar Store at 519 K Street, Greenberg Men's Clothing at 521 K Street, the Bay Hotel at 521-and-a-half K Street, and the Ace High Cafe...
This 1961 photograph takes in three venerable examples of mid-to-late nineteenth century Sacramento architecture; left to right, the Golden Eagle Hotel, built between 1853 and 1860, the Post Office, built between 1890 and 1894, and the Ochsner...
A class poses for a picture on the front steps of Marshall School in this January 1927 photograph. The 10-room schoolhouse was built in 1904, and through the twenty-first century, stands as the largest surviving example of Classical Revival...
This photograph, taken in 1921, shows a batboy of the Sacramento Senators showing his stuff at Moreing Field. Sacramento’s first organized semi-professional baseball team was the Altas , who became the Senators in 1890, and played the 1891 and...
This 1955 photograph captures Marshall Elementary School on 2718 G Street. Built in 1904 for 80,485 dollars, the school - well into the twenty-first century - stood as Sacramento's oldest existing school facility. Due to Field Act non-compliance,...
This circa 1925 photograph captures longtime Sacramento schoolteacher, Eugene R. Lindberg. Born in Berkeley in 1904, Lindberg graduated from the University of California in 1929 with a degree in civil engineering and a teaching certificate. In...
An arcaded flank of Sacramento's Weinstock, Lubin and Company is the subject of this circa 1920 postcard. Several display cases are visibile between each pillar. Built in 1904, the building occupied the southeast corner of Fourth and K Streets.
Sacramento's Western Pacific Railroad passenger depot, at 1904 J Street, sits prominently in this postcard. Built in 1909, the Mission-style structure was designed by the Chicago-based architect Daniel Burnham, and constructed for 30,000 dollars. ...
Resting at 1904 J Street is the Western Pacific Railroad passenger depot. Opening in August 1910, the station operated until March 1970. In 1978, is was purchased by the Dariotis family and converted into a restaurant, the Old Spaghetti Factory.
Shown in 1998 is a light rail train making its way toward the intersection of Seventh and K streets. The train's terminus is the Butterfield Station, which had been completed the same year this photograph was taken. The structure in the...
Listed as “one of the fist important commercial wineries in the city of Sacramento, The Eberhardt & Lachman Winery, which would be later named the California Winery, was built in 1871 by a San Francisco wine house. The brick building was...
