This November 1940 photograph shows Sacramento’s annual Christmas Parade as, led by Santa Claus, it proceeds east on K Street between Sixth and Seventh. Sponsored by the “Sacramento Bee,” the Sacramento Retail Merchants’ Association and...
Taken from the southwestern corner of Eight and I Streets, this photograph reveals the Doric-columned colonnade of Sacramento’s United States Post Office and Federal Building on February 26, 1935. After 1.3 million dollars in construction...
This circa 1955 photograph captures staff from Sacramento’s National Broadcasting Company affiliate, KCRA. Powered by its 573-foot-high television tower, the station went on the air on September 3, 1955 during a time when there were 57,000...
This circa 1900 photograph shows a gathering crowd at the entrance to the Westminster Presbyterian Church at Sixth and L Streets. Built in 1867, the wooden structure had a frontage of 38 feet and a depth of 60 with a cost eclipsing 10,000...
This March 11, 1931, photograph shows the Byzantine Italianate-style Westminster Presbyterian Church as it rests at the corner of Thirteenth and N Streets. It was dedicated on December 18, 1927, to its capacity of 1,300 members, with presiding...
Pictured in circa 1907 is the meeting hall at the Elks Temple at 824 J Street. The room was 43 by 60 feet in size with a height of 32 feet. It was also fitted with a miniature stage for live entertainment, a spring floor for dancing, and an...
Shown here in circa 1959 is the rear section of the single-screen Village Theater at 2925 Fulton Avenue. California architect Gastono “Gale” Santocono designed the Village, one of fifteen movie theaters that he worked on in California,...
Weeping willows accent this circa 1929 photograph in Southside Park, located at Seventh and V Streets. What was once known as the Seventh Street Slough was dredged in the summer of 1911 to form a lake and two islands. The dredged material was...
This 1873 photograph shows the prime facilities of the Central Pacific Railroad shops. In the foreground is the 90 by 230-foot car building shop. To the left of it is the 60 by 125-foot blacksmith shop. Behind both is the cabinet shop, boasting...
This April 10, 1928, photograph shows the façade of the Christian Brothers’ School at the southeast corner of Twenty-First and Y Streets. To the left of the photograph is the 200 by 50 foot main academic building with its classrooms,...
Making its way to Promontory Point, Utah, in May 1869, is the Central Pacific Railroad’s locomotive “Jupiter,” known also as number 60. Once there, the legendary driving of the golden spike would consummate the nation’s first...
Mrs. Elizabeth Richardson, pictured here circa 1873, was the wife of dairyman John Frink Richardson. Born in England in October 1817; she came to the United States in 1841 and settled in Sacramento in 1849. Upon arriving in the young city, she...
A Sacramento Northern Railroad train rolls through the outskirts of Rio Linda, California, in this circa 1923 photograph. The railroad had been in operation since 1918. The depot to the left of the photograph is labeled ""Rio Linda Poultry...
This 1960 photograph shows a gaggle of businesses on the south side of K Street, between Fifth and Sixth Streets. The following businesses are visible: the Valley Hotel at 506-and-a-half K Street, People’s Clothing Store at 506 K Street, the...
In this January 1997 photograph, waters of a flooded American River tear below Folsom's Rainbow Bridge. At the time of the flood, only seven percent of Sacramento properties absorbing damage held flood insurance. Overall, and at the time of the...
This circa 1975 photograph captures the Hotel Regis at 1106 Eleventh Street, and See's Candies at 1028 K Street. Through the Interwar period, the 60 room Regis gained a reputation as a family-oriented hotel. Sacramento's desire to increase the...
Members of the Sacramento Archery Club take aim in this circa 1928 photograph, shot at Curtis Park. By 1928, the club was one of 12 to be found in California. It was common for clubs to practice their way toward the California State Fair’s...
Shown in 1940 is the luminous Steve George, a sports casting legend in Sacramento for over 60 years. A native of Butte, Montana, George took a position with the Sacramento Union in the early 1920s. With the advent of the Second World War, he then...
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...
This exterior view of the Greyhound Bus Depot at 715 L Street was captured from the southwest corner of the intersection of Seventh and L Streets in circa 1955. Debuting in August 1937, the station was rebuilt at a cost of 225,000 dollars. Built...
