This 1931 photograph shows the Sacramento Public Library's Oak Park Branch, one of 42 branches operating throughout the city. The building's site - Thirty-Fifth Street and Fifth Avenue - was approved for construction in January of 1929. 75,000...
This July 15, 1932, photograph provides a view of the California State Fair's Poultry Building. The 25,000 square foot structure was built by Sacramento contractors Guth and Fox in 1931/32 for a cost of 75,000 dollars. The interior included...
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 13, 1941 picture shows Stan's Restaurant at 2407 Del Paso Boulevard. Just having opened, the location was built for 75,000 dollars by North Sacramento's J.F. Butts Construction Company. Stan's was also a 24-hour-a-day operation which...
This 2005 postcard contrasts the old and new incarnations of Sacramento's City Hall at 901 I Street. The new, 200,000 square foot, annex was completed in 2005 for a cost of 68 million dollars. An archaeological dig that surveyed the land used for...
This circa 1925 postcard shows a Sacramento Valley almond tree orchard in full blossom. In 1925, California could claim some 75,000 acres of viable bearing almond orchard land, yielding some 7,500 tons of the nut, with an overall industry value...
On June 29, 1963, the Port of Sacramento celebrated its completion with three days of activities. Over 75,000 people attended, taking in the parades, touring navy vessels and the California Maritime Academy’s Golden Bear cadet training ship. ...
Sacramento Room Postcard Collection
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