A Sacramento skyline sprouted in the 1980’s and 1990’s. Along with a host of new state government buildings, city developers helped to build new office spaces for a growing downtown workforce as well as for cultural needs. The Renaissance...
This evening photograph of Old Sacramento's Second Street, between I and J streets, was taken in circa 1990. Prior to Old Sacramento’s emergence from a center of urban blite to a State Historic Park in 1965, a series of ideas were proposed for...
This circa 1990 postcard shows Thomas Hill's "Great Canyon of the Sierra," which gained the prestigious New York Pallette AClub medal. E.B. and Margaret Crocker purchased the painting in 1873, then hanging it on the south wall of what would become...
"California State Capitol, Sacramento" reads the printed description of this circa 1990 vertical view of the California State Capitol building at night with windows and the dome illuminated. The first lighting of the Capitol building came...
Shown on the east bank of the Sacramento River, in circa 1990, is the "Delta King." Alhtough the boat's parts were made in Scotland, it was launched in Stockton. The ship could accommodate 200 passengers in staterooms and haul 2,000 tons of...
This circa 1990 postcard shows the Pony Express monument, located in the Old Sacramento State Historic Park, at the northeast corner of Second and J streets. Sacramento's B.F. Hastings building, at the southwest corner of Second and J streets, was...
Shown in this four-framed circa 1990 postcard are offices within the California State Capitol building. In the upper left is the Secretary of State's Office, established in 1902; upper right is the Governor's Private Office, established in 1906;...
This circa 1990 postcard shows the filigreed detail of the ceiling within the California State Capitol's State Archives Exhibit Room. The most distinguishing detail of the parget decoration is a series of California Poppies. The room was restored...
Tucked into the fog-shrouded, northwest corner of Sacramento's Old City Cemetery, at Tenth Street and Broadway, is the E.B. Crocker family monument. It contains the remains of Edwin and Margaret Crocker and their daughter, Amy. Just above their...
This circa 1990 aerial photograph provides a view of the William B. Pond Recreation Area, a seen from the northeast. Tabbed as the park's namesake in 1983, Pond was the first director of Sacramento County's Department of Parks and Recreation, and...
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