Pictured on the evening of December 11, 1948, are the store, nursery and greenhouse of F. Lagomarsino and Sons at 1213 Alhambra Boulevard. The business was founded in 1870 by Felice Lagomarsino, along Riverside Boulevard. It was here that...
This circa 1918 photograph shows a herd of dairy cows, grazing amongst the native oaks and sweet native grasses of primeval Carmichael, California. By 1920, Sacramento County was the thirteenth-highest producer of dairy products in the State of...
This circa 1900 postcard shows a dairy farm in the Sacramento Valley. In 1899, Sacramento County could boast 1,059 dairy farms with Yolo County containing some 918. The printed description on the back of the card reads "In the Sacramento Valley...
Here is an aerial view of the California Almond Growers' processing plant at Eighteenth and C Streets, circa 1935. It was built during the period between 1922 and 1929. The Southern Pacific Railroad main line is in the background and the Del Monte...
This August 26, 1931, photograph reveals the east side of the Sixteenth Street Public Bean and Grain Cleaner and Warehouse, located at 1501 Spear Avenue. By the 1950s, the building had become part of the California Packing Company's industrial...
The warehouses of the Golden State Asparagus Company line the Sacramento River in 1920 at Ryde, California. Ryde was established in 1898, drawing its name from the city of Ryde, located on southern England's Isle of Wight. The heavily loaded...
This April 4, 1928, photograph shows the storefronts of several businesses on North Sixteenth Street. They occupy the William Ward Seed Company building, built in 1925. Located across from the Sacramento Produce Terminal, the 30,000 square foot...
The California Fruit Exchange Building, also known as the Blue Anchor Building, rests on the southwestern corner of Tenth and N Streets. This building was constructed in 1931, and this photograph was taken on November 21, 1934. The Mission and...
This March 1942 photograph shows a recently modernized Globe Mills building at 1125 C Street. Its renovation, started in August 1941, came via the Federal Government's wartime plan to increase grain storage capacities and overcome nationwide...
This aerial photograph of the California Packing Company plant at 1721 C Street was taken in 1932. The photograph also reveals Sixteenth Street, looking north from C Street. Also in view is a section of the North Levee under the main line of...
This 1953 photograph shows the southern entrance to the Sixteenth Street Public Bean and Grain Cleaner Warehouse located at 1501 Spear Avenue. In the foreground are old railroad spurs. The building was constructed in the mid-1920s with eight-inch...
Pictured in 1926 is the Wood, Curtis Company’s recently completed distribution plant at Sixteenth and B Streets. One of California’s oldest and largest produce businesses, Wood, Curtis operated with interests as far north as Klamath Falls,...
This 1946 photograph shows rice processing facilities along the west bank of the Sacramento River, just off of River Road. The large structure to the right of the water tower are the rice mill and warehouse of the Rice Growers Association of...
Photograph taken in 1924 at the corner of Front and P Streets. On the corner is the California Packing Company factory. On the right side of the photo, at the corner of Front and Q Street, is the Sacramento Public Bean Cleaning Company, and to...
This 1952 photograph shows several workers preparing tomatoes for canning at the Bercut-Richards Packing Company, located on Seventh Street at Richards Boulevard.
Photograph taken August, 1942, of the quality control laboratory at Bercut-Richards Packing Company. An unidentified man and woman wearing laboratory coats and peering into microscopes occupy a table beneath rows of beakers, cannisters, bottles...
Photograph, taken in August, 1942, of women at work cutting peaches in half by hand and removing the stones at Bercut-Richards Packing Company. The war-time shortage of male workers had no effect on this industry, and this scene displays a wide...
