This April 24, 1909, photograph captures activity on the M Street Bridge during the celebration of Sacramento’s fiftieth anniversary. The picture was taken from the west side or West Sacramento side of the bridge, looking east. In the distance,...
Pictured are the Golden Eagle Hotel (627 K Street), and the Pantages Theater (615 K Street), circa 1909. The Golden Eagle was built of brick for 25,000 dollars in 1853 by D.C. Callahan. It stood three stories high and covered nearly 3,360 square...
This circa 1910 photograph shows the Elks Club as it sat at 824 J Street. The cornerstone for the building was layed on September 10, 1905. Republican Congressman Grove L. Johnson spoke at the occasion. The five-story structure, with a 42-foot...
This circa 1909 photograph shows the bar of Turner Hall, a 914 K Street tavern and social hub for ethnic Germans. It was owned by Louis Graber and William Dreher. Three men stand at the bar, one behind.
Presented in 1909 are Sacramento's English Lutheran Church at 1018 Sixteenth Street and the German Lutheran Church at 1207 K Street. The former was founded in 1890 at Fireman's Hall, moving to the pictured location in 1897. The latter was...
This corner view of the Hotel Sacramento is dated the same year as the "New" hotel opened (1909) and may depict the grand opening. The top floor of the building is decorated in greenery and automobiles, pedestrians and streetcars all converge in...
This circa 1909 postcard shows a flurry of early urban activity on J Street, between Front and Second streets. Notable are, to the right, the Ennis Brown Company and, to the right, Wood, Curtis and Company. By 1927, both produce companies will...
This circa 1909 postcard shows K Street, looking west, between Sixth and Seventh streets. The grayish building to the left is the Masonic Temple. The brownish sandstone structure before that is John Breuner's Furniture. To the immediate right in...
Shown in circa 1909 is the bustle of J Street, between Front and Second Streets. To the right, at 100 J Street, is the Ennis Brown produce company, specializing in potatoes, onions and beans. At 117 J Street, and to the left, is Wood, Curtis and...
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...
Shown in circa 1909 is the intersection of Twenty-Fourth and M streets, looking west toward the California State Capitol building. Notice the carriage steps and hitching posts alligning the sidewalk. Streetcars operate, running east and west.
The storefront of the Leo J. Meyberg household appliances store, at 1716 L Street, is captured in this 1938 photograph. The company served as northern California’s official wholesale distributor of RCA Victor and RCA Whirlpool products, opening...
Workers at the Panama Pottery factory at 4421 Twenty-Fourth Street are hard at work in this January 2, 1944, photograph. Founded in 1909 by Swedish immigrants Anders Anderson, Victor Axelson and Jacob Johnson, Panama’s production scope was wide,...
This March 28, 1938, photograph captures western side of the Hotel Sacramento. Visible on the structure's first floor are the Hotel Sacramento's Coffee Shop (1107 Tenth Street), and Dr. Locke's X-Ray Shoe Store (1115 Tenth Street). The five-story...
In this November 14, 1935, photograph, Otto Wiesen poses behind the counter at his 802 J Street jewelry store. After emigrating from Ulm, Germany, in 1909, Wiesen opened his first store at 501-and-a-half K Street, where, as the only employee, he...
The banks of Southside Park's lake are captured in this 1929 photograph. It took nearly two decades for fencing to find its way to the lakeside. Prior to this, a handful of children fell victim to drowning. The first to do so was Bobbie Whittaker,...
This circa 1920 photograph shows the interior of the Turner Hall Café at 914 K Street. Notables posing are co-owners Louis Graber (standing with elbow on bar) and William Dreher (seated left-of-center facing camera, left hand holding glasses). ...
The intersection of Tenth and L, as taken from the Capitol Dome, was captured in this 1897 photograph. The large structure on the far corner is the residence of flour mill manager Charles McCreary and his wife Fannie, while the even bigger...
A circa 1960 photograph of 1123-1125 Fifth Street, with Marie Kay's Beauty Salon at 1123 Fifth Street. There were rooms for rent at 1123 and an empty store at 1125 Fifth Street. A Shell Gasoline station, built in 1909, stood at the corner.
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...
