Shown on the southwest corner of Sixteenth and H streets, in circa 1975, is the Governor's Mansion, home to California's top politician from 1903, for George Pardee, to 1982, for Ronald Reagan. The Second Empire Italianate structure was originally...
Shown on the southwest corner of Sixteenth and H streets, in circa 1975, is the Governor's Mansion, home to California's top politician from 1903, for George Pardee, to 1982, for Ronald Reagan. The Second Empire Italianate structure was originally...
Shown here in circa 1959 is the rear section of the single-screen Village Theater at 2925 Fulton Avenue. California architect Gastono “Gale” Santocono designed the Village, one of fifteen movie theaters that he worked on in California,...
This postcard of "California's Magnificent Capitol" has a divided back and space for a one cent stamp as well as informative text underneath the impressive photograph rendered for the burgeoning postcard trade prior to the First World War. The...
Shown in 1950 is Oak Park’s Anglo California National Bank, located at the northeast corner of Thirty-fifth Street and Fourth Avenue. The 30 foot by 30 foot lot had been the home, since 1909, of the Citizens Bank of Oak Park, then the...
An account in “Sacramento, California” printed in 1926 describes the capital city as a trading center from which comes and goes a commerce that has produced a city possessing bank deposits greater in proportion to population than any other...
Pictured at 1895's California State Fair is a dining room exhibit from John Breuner's Furniture Company. The mid-1890s was a time of expositions and fairs, nationwide. In 1895, Sacramento hosted not only the State Fair but the ""Electric...
Members of the Sacramento’s Business and Professional Women’s Club look toward the camera in this 1958 photograph. Those pictured are attending a convention and are delegates representing California’s BPWC Region Three. The BPWC’s...
This 1981 photograph captures proceedings of Sacramento’s inaugural Railfair celebration, a 10-day-long event celebrating California’s railroad heritage. A locomotive – Central Pacific Railroad locomotive “Nevada” – makes its way...
Shown in circa 1960 is the dining room of George E. Johnson's Cordova Lodge, located at Highway 50 and Zinfandel Drive in Rancho Cordova. Built to seat 100 people, the room was adjoined to a cocktail lounge known as the Burgundy Room. Both...
Pictured in 1926 is the Wood, Curtis Company’s recently completed distribution plant at Sixteenth and B Streets. One of California’s oldest and largest produce businesses, Wood, Curtis operated with interests as far north as Klamath Falls,...
This circa 2005 postcard captures a portion of Sacramento's California International Marathon, as it moves itself along Carmichael Park at Fair Oaks Boulevard and Grant Avenue. Founded in 1983, the event served as the United States National...
The storefront of the Leo J. Meyberg household appliances store, at 1716 L Street, is captured in this 1938 photograph. The company served as northern California’s official wholesale distributor of RCA Victor and RCA Whirlpool products, opening...
This circa 1950 photograph shows the front of Star Furniture on 1511 Del Paso Boulevard in North Sacramento. Started in 1932 by Ralph Jennings, the store claimed to be ""California's largest furniture store north of Sacramento."" Jennings and...
This circa 1929 photograph shows the facade of the Van Voorhies-Phinney saddlery building on 322-324 J Street. Although the company descends from the R. Stone and Company, which was established in 1850, it didn’t hit its stride until 1869, when...
This circa 1900 photograph captures an omnibus from Sacramento’s Western Hotel. The Western was first built in 1854, but felled by fire in 1875. It was rebuilt that same year by Sacramento hostelling luminary William Land who went on to found...
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...
An army of archers take aim in this 1930 photograph, shot at William Land Park. By the mid-1920s, Sacramento’s archery community had formed a club, consisting of over 50 members, and found venues for sport at Land, Curtis and McKinley parks. ...
This 1929 portrait captures ultra-dapper golf professional Frank Minch, a member of, and golf professional at, the Del Paso Country Club, located at 3333 Marconi Avenue. Minch was one of California's leading profesional golfers and a valued member...
Shown in 1955 is the Procter and Gamble Manufacturing Company plant near the intersections of Power Inn Road and Fruitridge Road. The structure was built in 1951/52 for 2.5 million dollars with a workforce that numbered between 125 and 150. The...
