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 circa 1955 postcard shows the southeast corner of the California State Capitol building and its 7.25 million dollar annex which was completed in 1951. Attached to the east side of the original capitol, the 200-by-275 foot wing was designed to...
An orange tree presents to the left side of this circa 1945 postcard, taken from the west end of the Capitol Park and showing the rear and apse of the California State Capitol building. The section was removed in 1950/51 to make room for a new...
This 1995 postcard shows a camellia bush in Capitol Park. Located at Thirteenth and L streets, it is part of the Pioneer Camellia Grove that was planted in March 1942 by the Native Sons and Daughters of the Golden West. A total of 50 trees were...
This circa 1915 postcard shows the rear of the State Capitol building from the vantage point of Capitol Park. The postcard -- many of which were rendered as evening time scenes -- exploded on the American scene after 1900, with nearly 770.5...
This circa 1915 postcard shows the Governor's Mansion, resting on the southwest corner of Sixteenth and H streets. Built in 1877 for Albert and Clemenza Gallatin, it housed California's first family from 1903 to 1974. A few years after this card...
Shown at the northwest corner of Seventh and K streets is the Golden Eagle Hotel. In addition to being considered the lodge par excellence in its day, the Golden Eagle, built in 1863, also had the reputation for being a mainstay of the Republican...
As shown in circa 1996 and looking to the northeast, is the California State Capitol building at its Tenth Street, between L and N streets, location. The building's most prominent feature, its dome, was first covered with natural copper, until...
This circa 1999 postcard shows Old Sacramento State Historic Park's Front Street, between J and K streets. Standing as one of Sacramento's prime tourism destinations, it was felt, after its estabishment as a State Historic Park in 1965, that it...
Shown in circa 2000 is the California State Capitol building, as viewed from the southwest. The rotunda and Senate and Assembly chambers were just a year away from a 425,000 dollar, two month-long dusting and restoration, the first since a 68...
Resting near Old Sacramento State Historic Park, in 1999, is the "Delta King" riverboat. Prior to rehabilitation, the vessel, built in 1926, was sunk in Richmond Harbor for 15 months. After purchase, it arrived at Sacramento, under the power of...
This postcard shows the idyllic sheen of one of Sacramento's first suburbs, Oak Park. Annexed by the city in 1911, and located at the southeastern edge of the Sacramento proper, Oak Park's growth was accelerated by the streetcar, a decade-old...
This postcard captures a southwesterly view of Duck Lake, the Robert Stackpole-sculpted monument to cattleman Charles Swanston, and the William Land Park Community Clubhouse. Separating the lake from the clubhouse is Land Park Drive.
Shown in circa 1905, and as seen through the intersection of Fifteenth and N streets, is Sacramento's Agricultural Pavilion. Its dome rose 25 feet above the superstructure while the building ran 400 feet in all directions. 50 percent of the...
Shown through the intersection of Fifteenth and N streets, in circa 1905, is Sacramento's Agricultural Pavilion. Its signature dome rose 25 feet above the superstructure while the building ran 400 feet in all directions. Fifty percent of the...
Shown in 1953 is the State of California's Department of Motor Vehicles Sacramento Headquarters Building, at 2540 Twenty-Fourth Street. The structure was renamed "Building - West" in September 1963, after the arrival of the new, 12 million dollar,...
This circa 1930 postcard shows the California State Library and Courts Building, located at M Street, between Ninth and Tenth streets. The State Library, along with the construction of the opposite State Office Building Number One, were first...
