Pictured in circa 1945 is a bustling scene before the River Lines office and receiving center at 1300 Front Street, with the twin spires of the Tower Bridge in the background. The company was primary in the transport of material and food stuffs...
This postcard shows riverboats pulling barges down the Sacramento River. At the beginning of the twentieth-century, the standard barge - and particularly those operated by the Sacramento Transportation Company - measured 232 feet in length and...
This postcard, printed in 1918, reveals a bustling scene of barges, riverboats and wharves along the Sacramento River, between West Sacramento and Sacramento proper. Barges were a common site along the river in the nineteenth and early twentieth...
This 1940 photograph captures sailboats and motorboats making their way upstream along the Sacramento River. To the left of the photograph are grain barges while, on the right side, are grain storage facilities on the Yolo County side of the river.
Barges fill the Sacramento River in this circa 1918 postcard. In spite of having to navigate a river fraught with sand bars and slickens, it was at this time that the transportation of people and dry goods via the Sacramento River was coming into...
This circa 1918 postcard provides a view of the Sacramento waterfront, as seen from the west side of the Sacramento River in West Sacramento, and south of the M Street Bridge. Several wharves - including those representing the Western Pacific...
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 photograph of Sacramento's waterfront, between roughly J Street to M Street, was taken in circa 1906. In August of 1906, the Southern Pacific Railroad was in the process of expanding its wharf facilities toward M Street as well as adding a...
Shown on August 28, 1932, is a fire that claimed River Lines company’s freighters Sacramento, Valetta, San Joaquin No. 2, San Joaquin No. 4, San Jose, Flora, Jacinto and Colusa, and barges Maryland and Alabama. An additional victim in the fire...
This August 28, 1932, photograph shows part of a fire that devastated portions of the River Lines docks and facilities which, in total, was estimated to claim over 500,000 dollars in damages. The fire also claimed a River Lines fleet of eight...
Flames work their way through ships moored along the Sacramento River’s western shore in this August 28, 1932, photograph. Of the eight stern wheelers, two barges and two tugboats destroyed, less than half were covered by insurance. The...
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...
Shown in circa 1910 is a river barge, plying its way along the Sacramento River. For nearly a century and beginning in 1875, River Lines provided transport for cargo - canned goods, rice, and wool - from Sacramento to Colusa, From Sacramento to...
