It was from his palatial Shingle Style Queen Anne at 1220 “H” Street that Captain Frank Ruhstaller kept close watch over his brewery. Set on a lot of some 12,800 square feet, the 21 room home was sold, just a few years after Ruhstaller’s...
The Water Works Building at Front and I Streets was the city of Sacramento's first official structure, and for over 20 years the City Hall was located in that facility. Temporary quarters at Fourth and J Streets served city officials until the...
Sacramento's Pacific Telephone and Telephgraph exchange is the subject of this postcard. Located at 1411 J Street, the three-story exchange was built in 1907, designed to accomodate up to 20,000 telephones and seat nearly 200 "hello girls." It...
Shown at the southwest corner of Seventh and K Streets is the Capital Hotel. In 1887, the 100-unit property underwent a 20,000 dollar rennovation that included marked expansion, giving the Capital a 100-foot frontage on K Street and 120-foot...
Sutter's Fort and Saint Francis Catholic Church are displayed prominently in this postcard. The long road to returning the historic site to its previous grandeur started in 1890, when the Sunset Parlor of the Native Sons of the Golden West...
Sutter's Fort is the subject of this postcard, captured from the south side of L street, which runs in the foreground. Clealy visibile are two block houses or bastions. The one to the rear of the fort, and on the left side of the postcard,...
In the earlier part of the previous century the Sutter/Yuba/Southern Butte area east of Sacramento was labeled the "Peach Bowl of the World" for its production of over half of the canning peaches in California. In 1928 Sutter County had over 20,000...
According to an account in Mc Gowan’s “History of the Sacramento Valley;” hops was a specialty crop grown in rows. However this crop was found only in a few areas of the Sacramento Valley. Yuba County claimed the most extensive hop fields...
Hops was a specialty crop grown in rows. However this crop was found only in a few areas of the Sacramento Valley. “Yuba County claimed the most extensive hop fields in the world with over a thousand acres near Wheatland.’ (Mc Gowan’s...
Shown prior to restoration, in circa 1885, is the central building at Sutter's Fort, located at Twenty-Seventh and L streets. Prior to its rehabiliation, thanks in part to 20,000 dollars appropriated by California's legislature and to the efforts...
Shown in circa 1890 is the Georgiana School. The Georgiana School District was formed in 1866, with the school house standing along the Sacramento River, halfway between Isleton and Walnut Grove. At around the time this images was captured, between...
Pictured in 1892 is the Folsom State Prison mess hall. Watermelons, stuck with spoons, await inmates. A guard stands near a back door and a smattering of prisoners sit around the room. Due to a 450-acre section of well-irrigated, arable land...
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...
Shrouded in greenery, from the corner of Tenth and J Streets, is Plaza Park. At the time of this 1905 photograph, the Plaza was adorned with several elms, orange trees, redwoods, and palms. The block underwent a 70,000 dollar facelift in 1966...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
