This photograph of the I Street Bridge, originally known as the Southern Pacific Bridge, was taken in 1911, just one year prior to the 1,000,000 dollar structure's official opening. The view comes from the West Sacramento side of the Sacramento...
This 1911 photograph shows members of the Capital City Wheelmen, Sacramento's most enduring bicycling club. Formed on June 25, 1886, the organization engaged in standard "Club Runs," or country excursions, as well as competitive engagements with...
The "Pride of the River" is shown in action, somewhere near Sacramento on the Sacramento River. This photograph of the riverboat, built in 1878 for the California Transportation Company, was taken in 1911. The ship's maiden voyage was a 20-minute...
Plying the waters since 1878, the steamboat "Pride of the River" is shown in action, in circa 1911, somewhere along the Sacramento River. The 175-foot-long craft was constructed at San Francisco's Meigg's Wharf and could carry up to 500 tons of...
This circa 1911 postcard provides a view of Capitol Park. At that time, the park was view to contain some of the most unique flora in the western United States, boasting plants from every continent: date palms of Asia, Africa, and South America;...
Making its way along L Street, in this circa 1911 postcard, is the Hotel Land's 26-horse power, 18-passenger Frayer-Miller auto bus. The Land started the service -- the first of its kind in the city -- at the end of 1910, when it starting...
This circa 1911 evening rendering of the intersection at Eighth and K streets, shows the Clunie Theater in foreground and the spires of the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacramento appear in the distance. On the back of the postcard, it states "on the...
Shown on this postcard, prior to 1911, is the Sacramento Boat Club, as situated on the west banks of the Sacramento River at Broderick. The group attempted to move from the depicted site in April 1911 and away from the recently built, yet ominous,...
This 1911 postcard reveals a giddy opening night audience at Meichlor Diepenbrock's Theater Diepenbrock. 1,600 Sacramentans showed up on March 18 to see Charles Kline's comedy-drama "The Lion and the Mouse."
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...
Centered at the junction of the California Central rails and the Central Pacific Railway and named for the abundant wildflowers in the area, the town of Roseville formed a school district in 1869 but had no schoolhouse of its own until 1872. A...
This photograph of J.J. Jacobs - Jack J. - Motor Company at 1500 K Street was taken on July 21, 1937. Jacobs came to California from his native Darby, Pennsylvania, in 1911, setting up his Sacramento Studebaker dealership in 1916. In 1934, he...
The First Christian Church sits at 2701 N Street in this circa 1924 photograph. The Romanesque structure was built in 1911 for a cost of 30,000 dollars. The previous church – located at Sixteenth and L Streets – was burned down during the...
Taken between 1927-1929, this photograph shows the Hotel Sacramento, resting at the southeast corner of Tenth and K Streets. From its opening, onward, the Sacramento was looked upon as one of the more cosmopolitan spots in the city. In March of...
The Port of Sacramento's nascent deep water channel is pictured here on January 18, 1954. The two silos are on the north bank of the channel. The earliest feasibility study on the Port was done in 1911 by Paul Norboe, an engineer for the State of...
The Port of Sacramento's nascent deep water channel is pictured here on January 18, 1954. The two silos are on the north bank of the channel. The earliest feasibility study on the Port was done in 1911 by Paul Norboe, an engineer for the State of...
This photograph of a pristine interior of the California State Capitol Governor's Office was taken in 1942. Levy Olson was the Governor at this time. The Governor's office was moved to the Capitol annex in 1951, when this room was then occupied...
This circa 1916 photograph shows the White Hospital’s nursing corps sitting on the building’s front steps. In existence between 1911 and 1924, and located at Twenty-Ninth and J Streets, the hospital classified its nurses into two groups: ...
This 1925 photograph looks south, across Duck Lake and up toward the Charles Swanston Memorial statue and William Land Park’s Community Clubhouse. Upon Land’s death in December 1911, 250,000 dollars were bequeathed via the hotelier’s last...
This graphically-enhanced promotional photograph of the proposed Port of Sacramento was taken in 1951. It faces east, showing both West Sacramento in the foreground and, in the distance, Sacramento proper. Plans for a freshwater shipping channel...
