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...
Growing children with no available outlet for further education was incentive enough for sixteen elementary school districts to establish California’s first union high school in Elk Grove. The initial building was housed in what is now Old Town...
The first local high school built north of the American River was a first in many ways, the result of a need for a school district to educate the far-flung school-age children in the area combined with the practical need for a civic center to bring...
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...
Centered at the junction of the California Central rails and the Central Pacific Railway and named for the abundant wildflowers in the area, the town of Roseville formed a school district in 1869 but had no schoolhouse of its own until 1872. A...
San Juan Union High School is located at 7551 Greenback Lane in Citrus Heights, California. Founded in 1913, it stands as Sacramento County’s second oldest high school behind that of Sacramento High School, established in 1856. The school’s...
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...
C.K. McClatchy Senior High School is located at 3066 Freeport Boulevard in Sacramento, California. Named after “Sacramento Bee” newspaper editor and owner Charles Kenny McClatchy, the school was built in 1937 by way of Public Works...
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 1930, this photograph captures the southwestern corner of Eighth and K Streets. Pedestrians wait to cross K Street and a large billboard for Zukor’s Dresses stands over the pictured building. Businesses visible are Zukor's Dresses at...
The Standard Furniture Company lines Eighth Street, between I and J Streets, in this circa 1940 photograph. Native New Yorker Edward Samoville founded the business in the 1939, eventually joining forces with the future owner of North...
This August 1916 photograph shows members of the Capital City Motorcycle Club. They are, left to right, Mrs. Arthur Johnson, Mrs. Ruth Fabian, Mrs. Gertie Riffe (holding unknown baby), Mrs. Lee Boiland (Myrtle), Elizabeth Boiland, Lillian Johns,...
This 1912 photograph shows the graduating class at Mary J. Watson Grammar School, located at Fifteenth and J streets. In the first row are Gordon Lilly, Harold A. Wulff, Foris McCullough; second row are Bernard Henry, Helen Best, Claire Pierson...
Taken in the Elks Club, this is a formal posed group photograph of the installation team of the B.P.O.E. The eight members are identified as follows. Back Row: Paul Cruise, Grand Lecturing Knight. Arthur L. Case, Grand Chaplain. Carl Daseking,...
Dressed in period clothing are participants in Sacramento’s Days of ’49 festivities in May 1922. Two costumed gentleman stand poised in an automobile while several period-dressed people walk by. Designed to relive the vim of Gold Rush...
Pictured in 1929 is a group of eight hops harvesters at the George Brooks Ranch, near Grantline Road in Elk Grove, California. They are, from left to right, Ray Hogaboom, Medina Chalmers, Edna Hunter, J.J. “Pop” Nix, Stella Spiva, Arthur...
The California State Capitol Building as seen from the shade of the loggia of the Hotel Senator sometime during the late 1920s is the subject of this color-tinted postcard. Vintage automobiles, palm trees and the Capitol are the main elements on...
Shown in circa 1990 is the storefront of the Johansen Photography Studio, located at 1005 Eleventh Street. Founded by Norwegian-born Just Arthur Johansen, the store opened in 1926 and operated until its closure in 1966. In addition to...
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...
