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...
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 2005 postcard promotes an art exhibit addressing the "Art of the Bicycle" at the Exploding Head Art Gallery, located at 924 Twelfth Street. The gallery opened in 2000 under the leadership of Linda Welch and Jodi de Vries. It closed in 2007.
Shown in circa 1910 is the first floor lobby of the Crocker Art Museum at 216 O Street. The doorways and stairways are made of walnut while the paneling is made of California laurel. Through the door to the right of the photograph is 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...
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...
Taken in 1970, this photograph shows an unnamed sculpture and fountain done by Norman Grag. Located at the main branch of the Wells Fargo Bank at 500 Capitol Mall, the fountain was an example of the city's requirement that, in any building...
This 1975 photograph captures a sculpture and fountain in front of the Wells Fargo Building at Fifth Street and Capitol Avenue. Created by Nevada City artist Norman Grag, the unnamed work is composed of copper. Three rods, the longest over ten...
This April 1980 photograph shows the installation of the Indo Arch, a public art piece design by Sacramento State University Art Professor Gerald Walburg. The sculpture's appearance came with criticism. It was felt, particularly by historian and...
This 2002 photograph reveals the atrium of the Embassy Suites Hotel at 100 Capitol Mall. The 242-room hotel was opened in April 2002 under the direction of owner John Kehriotis. Interior of the structure was adorned with 700,000 dollars in public...
Shown in circa 1991 is the parquet floored grand ballroom at the Crocker Art Museum, located at 216 O Street. Adorning the walls and nooks are various European-style paintings and vases. The room is also characterized by the presence of four...
This circa 1991 postcard shows the foyer of the Crocker Art Gallery, located at Second and O streets. The spiral stairways on either side of the photograph were made by Langland and Carter, who had a wood working concern at Front and Q streets. ...
This circa 1970 postcard provides a detailed view of some of the artisan wood work done in the entrance way to the Crocker Art Museum's ballroom. The carved and molded panneling throughout the ballroom area was done with both Maple and California...
This circa 1980 postcard shows a Buddhist shrine and Japanese costuming, part of the Oriental Gallery at the Crocker Art Gallery at Second and O streets. Thanks to one of the Crocker daughters, Mrs. J. Sloat Fassett and travels to East Asia, the...
This postcard shows perhaps the most familiar painting of California's Gold Rush, "Sunday Morning in the Mines." Done with oil on canvas, it was done in 1872 by Charles Christian Nahl, a native of the Hesse-Kassel region of Germany. Nahl would go...
This circa 1980 postcard shows the Crocker Art Gallery's main entrance at O Street, between Second and Third streets. Built in 1872/83 under the guidance of N.D. Goodell, the Italian suburban-style structure was built to measure some 60 feet in...
This circa 1940 postcard shows the Crocker Art Gallery, located at Second and 0 Street. Gifted in March 1885 to the city of Sacramento and California Museum Association by Margaret Crocker, it quickly became the first and finest public art...
This circa 1905 postcard shows the E.B. Crocker Art Gallery, located at Second and O streets. Opened to the public in 1873 and bequethed to the city of Sacramento and California Museum Association in 1885, one of the first tasks of 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...
