Pictured in 1950 are the officers and members of Gomez Lodge number 12 of the Caballeros of Dimas-Alang, located at 1025 Ninth Street. The fraternal organization - comprised of Filipino Americans - was founded in San Francisco in 1921. The...
Sacramento High School is located at 2315 Thirty-Fourth Street in Sacramento, California. Founded just one week after San Francisco’s Lowell High School opened its doors in mid-August 1856, “Sac High” has matured into the second oldest high...
This May 23, 1922, photograph captures a procession of costumed children moving down through the 600 block of J Street during the Days of ’49 celebration. The event was started in 1922 to commemorate the founding of Sacramento. The parade...
This January 6, 1945, photograph shows a group portrait of Legionarios Del Trabajo, Lodge number 618, also known as the Camellia Lodge. The picture was taken at the Legionarios Del Trabajo Temple at 225 Capitol Avenue. Founded in San Francisco in...
This photograph of the interior of Yee’s Herb Shop at 707-and-a-half J Street was taken in circa 1935. Its founder, Henry Yee, came to Sacramento from China in 1906 and would come to live a life of varied interests. After graduating from the...
This circa 1960 photograph shows the Capital Palace Café at 400 J Street. It rested on the southeast corner of Fourth and J Streets and was established by the Battaglia brothers, John and Peter, in 1938. Natives of Jackson, California, and first...
Photograph, taken circa 1960, of the Morris Hotel (1007 Fourth Street), the Chinese Laundry and Grocery Workers Association (1011 Fourth Street), and the Arch Cafe, a cafe and tavern (1015 Fourth Street).
A street scene of a single brick building facing Fourth Street. In raised letters across the front of the decorative facade is "Louie Fong & Fong Assn" (916 Fourth Street). The street level windows along the front of the building are enclosed...
Street front along Fourth Street shows the Acme Transfer and Storage Company (912 Fourth Street) with large sign mounted on the front of the building and with a large moving truck parked at the curb in front of the building. Hidden from view by...
This street scene shows a clear view of the store front location of Kuo Min Tang, the Chinese Women's New Life Association. The front door is emblazoned with a sun design emblem (for the Kuu Min Tang, a Chinese Nationalist Political Party) and a...
Photograph, taken circa 1960, of J Street between Third and Fourth, showing the Star Cafe (tavern) (300 J Street), at the corner in the Nagele Building, the Plaza Hotel (300 J Street), the Troy Hotel (302 J Street), the Capital Farm Implement...
As early as the mid-nineteenth century, American churches conducted evening language classes in order to assist Chinese immigrants in the reading of scripture. In Sacramento, it was Eliza Willsie and Mary Allen’s Baptist Mission on 907 Fifth...
The Chinese inscription on this photograph states: "United States Second City Dancing Party at Hong King Lum" The October 13, 1932, dance commemorates the second anniversary of the establishment's new location. Numerous couples pose for the camera...
This photograph, taken in 1921, shows a batboy of the Sacramento Senators showing his stuff at Moreing Field. Sacramento’s first organized semi-professional baseball team was the Altas , who became the Senators in 1890, and played the 1891 and...
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 1926 photograph reveals a throng of spectators at a Sacramento Municipal Soccer League game at Western Pacific Field near Sutterville Road, previously known as Whiskey Hill Road. Of the ten teams that participated in the league, all possessed...
On the evening of January 28, 1932, Fernando "Young Tommy" Opao accepts the California state bantam weight championship belt from ex-heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey. Opao claimed a ten round sweep of previous state champion David "Newsboy Brown"...
A line of African American men and women with an audience in the background.The suited men wear top hats. The women wear light colored dresses and carry parasols.
This July 4, 1924 photograph shows two African American couples at Field Day festivities, held every Independence Day at Folsom Prison. The tradition was instituted by Warden Charles Aull, and included live entertainment, baseball games and a...
A banana plant grows in Sacramento in this circa 1900 postcard. What had been a mere curiosity to Americans for decades had, by the late nineteenth-century, become a staple as, in 1889, an estimated 1.2 billion bananas had been eaten by American...
