Taken on August 31, 1928, this photograph shows the granite facade the State of California Office Building Number One, located at 915 Capitol Avenue. The picture was shot from the northeast edge of the Library and Courts Building. The first of...
This May 2, 1940, photograph captures the facade of the State of California Office Building Number One, located at 915 Capitol Avenue. Its cornerstone was laid to great delight in September 1923 and included a Masonic marching band and speeches by...
This photograph of the Sacramento City Manager’s office at City Hall at 915 I Street was taken in 1950. The window looks westerly to several buildings, including – left to right – the Hotel Californian at 800 I Street, the Labor Temple at...
The following Second Street storefronts, between I and J Streets, are visible in this 1960 photograph: the Swiss Rooms at 911 Second Street, Kennedy Second Hand Store at 915 Second Street, the Railroad Cafe at 913 Second Street, and the entrance...
This circa 1937 view shows the building housing the Young Men's Christian Association at 505 J Street, the Arizona Rooms at 517 J Street, and the River Auto Stages at 915 Fifth Street. The five-story building was opened in 1914 and included a...
In this August 1932 photograph, a parade comprised of various posts of the Veterans of Foreign Wars moves eastward, down K Street, between Seventh and Tenth Streets. Their presence represented Sacramento’s hosting of the VFW’s thirty-third...
Martha Washington Candy Store at 3130 J Street is shown here on May 4, 1934. The photograph was taken on the opening day of the new business which included free ice cream cones for visitors. The design of the store was meant to carry Sacramentans...
Edward Field Sanford, Jr., works within the pediment of State Office Building Number One in this 1926 photograph. This was the first time that Sanford had used a compressor chisel and confided that the day-to-day vibration of the machine made it...
This 1960 photograph shows State Office Building Number One's frieze and pediment. Crafted by New York City artist Edward Field Sanford, the building's section symbolizes ""The Gift of the World to California"" with the frieze inscribed with the...
A circa 1960 view of M. R. Carpenter Company at 907 Front Street; Plumbing at 911 Front Street; Pacific Fur and Wool at 915 Front Street; and Howard and Dean Van Lines at 921 Front Street (McKesson & Robbins Building).
A parade featuring uniformed participants wearing police shields moves along K Street from Eighth to Tenth. The front line marchers all wear different outfits, including a cadet uniform, and are followed by a uniformed marching band. Throngs of...
Soldiers wearing doughboy hats and traditional caps march with sailors down K Street at Ninth during this 1920 parade as a color guard leads the way. Row upon row of marching military personnel fill the street and a very large crowd of spectators...
A 1927 parade along K Street between Seventh and Tenth features a marching band, most of them in uniform, followed by lines of men in and out of uniform marching in rows. A small group of uniformed scouts and nurses dressed in white are at the end...
Officers and enlisted men of the United States Armed Forces representing the Army and Navy troop down K Street between Seventh and Tenth followed by an equal number of marching men in plain clothes. Rows of spectators lines the street on both...
A 1920 parade progresses along K Street at Ninth led by as traditional color guard. A military guard carries an enormous American Flag held on all sides by participants as they march, followed by lines of soldiers and sailors. A very large crowd of...
A marching band and drill team in military uniforms led by a man with a baton is the focus of this 1927 photograph. K Street was a popular parade route and the stretch between Seventh and Tenth is the one traveled here. Onlookers line the street,...
A military parade featuring cavalry units escorting horse-drawn caissons rolls down K Street between Seventh and Tenth in this 1927 photograph. A large crowd of onlookers line the street and business signs clearly identify the Clunie Hotel (805 K...
