This circa 1925 photograph shows the entrance to Sacramento’s Chamber of Commerce building on 918 Sixth Street. The 80,000 dollar, three-story structure was built in 1921 by the Sacramento contracting firm of Betz and Mabrey. The Chamber ‘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...
As part of a joint venture between the Elk Grove Chamber of Commerce, Frontier Telephone Company and the Sacramento Metro Chamber, "Elk on Parade" was launched in the summer of 2002 to both earn money for charities and promote business for local...
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...
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...
Founded in 1876 by the Brothers of the Christian Schools at the southwest corner of Twelfth and K Streets, Christian Brothers School has held subsequent locations at Twenty-First and Broadway, and 4315 Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard. After a...
This April 24, 1909, photograph captures activity on the M Street Bridge during the celebration of Sacramento’s fiftieth anniversary. The picture was taken from the west side or West Sacramento side of the bridge, looking east. In the distance,...
This nighttime photograph of one of Sacramento’s most recognizable landmarks, the Tower Bridge, was taken in 1940. The Capitol dome, on the left side of the picture, has been superimposed. The earliest official support for a replacement for the...
The venerable Breuner's furniture store rests at its 604 K Street location in 1945. John Breuner - after sailing around Cape Horn in the early 1850s - started his business in 1856 and it stayed in operation for over 120 years. Bruener's was...
This photograph of the California State Senate was taken on September 21, 1950. Goodwin "Goodie" Knight sits in the foreground, in the first row. He was elected Lieutenant Governor in 1946 and reelected to the same post in 1950. He would...
Pictured on March 20, 1936, are the bustling locations of Leed’s Shoes and Lewis’s Women’s Apparel at 814 and 812 K Street, respectively. Leed’s had been at the pictured location since the fall of 1934, helping up to 100 of Sacramento’s...
This wide open view of the northern reaches of William Land Park was taken in 1926. To the photograph’s left is the memorial statue and fountain of Charles Swanston, built in 1923/24 by Paris-based sculpture Ralph Stackpole, who also created the...
This 1945 photograph captures the northeast corner and bustling intersection of Seventh and J Streets. At the center of the photograph is the Log Cabin Tavern flanked to the right by a series of businesses, including the Spaghetti Palace,...
This 1945 photograph captures the northeast corner and bustling intersection of Seventh and J Streets. At the center of the photograph is the Log Cabin Tavern flanked to the right by a series of businesses, including the Spaghetti Palace,...
Captured sometime in mid 1970s from the vantage point of Seventh Street, between I and J Streets, is the Security National Bank at 631 J Street and the Crocker Citizens National Bank at 700 J Street. In the middle of the frame, with its red brick...
Taken on May 10, 1952, this photograph shows a three-dimensional rendition of the Folsom Lake area. The project was completed by inmates at the Folsom State Prison on behalf of the Folsom Chamber of Commerce. In addition to Folsom Lake, prominent...
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...
As shown in this circa 1900 postcard, the second Sacramento County Courthouse built on the northwest corner of Seventh and I streets, was 80-feet wide, 120-feet deep and measured 61-feet from street to rooftop. The cost for the multi-purpose...
Shown to the right in this circa 1995 postcard are the California State Senate Chambers; to the left are those occupied by the California State Assembly. Located at the south wing of the Capitol Building, the Assembly Chamber is graced by a...
