The Public Catalog Room of the California State Library at 914 Capitol Avenue is shown in this July 29, 1929, photograph. A coffered ceiling, mosaic floor and classical-style sculpture are all visible. The sculpture, standing some 20 feet above...
An October 20, 1939, photograph reveals the front entrance to the Auditorium of Grant Union High School. The Auditorium held the school's prized pipe organ, an instrument whose quality and design was matched by those in only three other venues in...
This April 2, 1936, photograph captures the imposing spires of the Tower Bridge, as seen from the western side of the Sacramento River. The builder of the truss vertical-lift bridge was Sacramento’s George Pollock Construction Company. The...
This April 1962 photograph shows the west end of the reading room at the Sacramento Central Library at 828 I Street. It was located on the second floor, along with a reference room, delivery and open stacks for 20,000 volumes. The first floor...
This northerly look up Tenth Street from N Street was taken in April 20, 1947. Visible in the foreground is the State Library and Courts Building while, in the distance, and screened by palm trees, is the pediment of State Office Building Number...
Resting in circa 1950 at 1200 K Street is George Takahashi Optometry. Takahashi was first generation Japanese American, or Nisei, born in California to a family of eleven children. His brothers, Henry, William and Ernest were also physicians, and...
On July 3, 2003 the last of a series of fires caused the razing of the Comstock Building at Eighth and J Streets. The pictured block was filled-in in 2005 with 800 J Lofts, a 46 million dollar mixed housing and retail structure. It was built with...
This circa 1977 photograph shows the Ruhstaller Building at Ninth and J Streets with Jewelcraft Loans at 900 J Street and Albert Ramirez Bail Bonds occupying the ground floor at 1005 Ninth Street. Built in 1898 by Sacramento brewer and capitalist,...
Shown in January 1997 is a portion of the flooded American River, near Folsom. The power of a New Year's Day tropical storm drove an assortment of debris down the lower American River into Lake Folsom including parts of five cabins, 20 propane...
Taken in circa 1975 and looking west, this photograph of a busy K Street Mall captures pedestrians passing by the Hotel Regis at 1106 Eleventh Street. Also visible - and lining the southern side of K Street - are Grebitus and Son Jewelers at 1100...
A large gold bow decorates a family marker listing members of the Kaeser Family. At the top are the parents: Father Andrew J. Kaeser July 20, 1839 Sept. 27, 1931; Mother Marie Kaeser Feb. 14, 1839 July 3, 1932. In order down the sides: Freda April...
A large gold bow decorates a family marker listing members of the Kaeser Family. At the top are the parents: Father Andrew J. Kaeser July 20, 1839-Sept. 27, 1931; Mother Marie Kaeser Feb. 14, 1839-July 3, 1932. In order down the sides: Freda April...
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...
This September 20, 1949, photograph shows one of the most unique homes in Sacramento, the Simon Lubin House at 1304 Thirty-Ninth Street. The Moorish-style structure was built in 1924 by area contractor Fred Krum. Its namesake was the son of...
Two vehicles move along West Sacramento's West Capitol Avenue in this January 20, 1947 view. To the right of the photograph is a billboard advertising Lyon's Root Beer. In the distance is the faux dome of the Capitol Inn at 1130 West Capitol...
Photograph, taken November 11, 1932, of a football game at Sacramento Stadium on the Sacramento Junior College campus, located at 3835 Freeport Boulevard. The stadium was later renamed Hughes Stadium on November 18, 1944. Built in 1928 for 140,000...
Amatuer golfer William Duffus is captured in this August 1929 photograph, taken at Sacramento's Amatuer Golf Championship at the Del Paso Country Club. William's brother, Elmer Duffus, captured the top flight title by defeating Manville Pendleton...
This November 11, 1933, photograph shows Armistice Day's American Legion-sponsored "Military Pageant" at Sacramento Stadium, located on the campus of Sacramento Junior College at 3835 Freeport Boulevard. After the display, Sacramento Junior...
This July 2, 1928, photograph shows the girls' polo team from the Sacramento Riding Club. The 15 members and four ponies pose in front of the club's barn and 3401 Del Paso Boulevard location, in Del Paso. The riding group had been established just...
