The children’s solarium at Mercy Hospital at 4001 J Street is shown in this circa 1928 photograph. The tile work, located just below the room’s windows, was printed to show familiar figures from the Mother Goose rhymes. Located in the...
Southside Park's lake is pictured here in the late 1920s. While clearly beautiful, the mission of Southside Park's developers was to create a sanctuary for children, where play and recreation would be given the strongest attention. Even as early...
This May 23, 1922, photograph captures a procession of costumed children moving down through the 600 block of J Street during the Days of ’49 celebration. The event was started in 1922 to commemorate the founding of Sacramento. The parade...
Standing amidst the whitened Capitol grounds on March 14, 1942, these children make the most of Sacramento’s heaviest snowfall in 26 years. The two-inch accumulation led to a carnival-type feel throughout the city with snowmen, sleds and...
This postcard sized class photo shows the children from the Marshall School standing almost at attention in neat rows on the school's front steps. A boy in the back row holds the flag, while the teacher stands slightly to one side. Except for a...
Children gather at the Traveling Branch of the Sacramento City Library. This bookmobile was designed by City Librarian Grace Taylor Dean, constructed from a war surplus trailer chassis, and built by Mr. Semas, a mechanic at the Corporation Yard. It...
Children dressed in Summer Reading costumes (the theme was Circus of Books) pose in front of the Sacramento Public Library's Traveling Branch (ca. 1970).
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...
California Middle School is located at 1600 Vallejo Way in Sacramento, California. Designed by Sacramento architecture luminary Harry Devine and built at a cost of $300,000, the structure opened in November 1933 with an enrollment of 738 pupils...
Chris Fulster’s Cottage Cheese business at 2520 Y Street is captured in this circa 1937 photograph. A children, dressed in summer clothing, stand at either side of the store entrance and roses line a walkway that leads to the doorway. A native...
Pictured in 1926 is a duck pond, later to be known as Duck Lake, located in the western-most part of the park, along Land Park Drive. By the time this photograph was taken, the park had two duck ponds and a model boat pond. In the winter of 1937,...
The banks of Southside Park's lake are captured in this 1929 photograph. It took nearly two decades for fencing to find its way to the lakeside. Prior to this, a handful of children fell victim to drowning. The first to do so was Bobbie Whittaker,...
This 1934 photograph shows the Coloma School at 4623 T Street. In the foreground, children sit on the steps that lead up to the school’s southwestern entrance. T Street runs before them. Originally known as Elmhurst School, the Byzantine-style...
Pictured January 2, 1900, school children and their teacher stand in front of Edward Kelley School at 3336 Bradshaw Road. As of 2010, the two-room structure is the oldest standing educational institution in Sacramento County. Originally opened in...
This 1936 photograph reveals the unbridled pleasure of children running between classrooms at Marshall Elementary School, at 2700 G Street. At the time this photograph was taken, the school was offering a kindergarten through ninth-grade...
A class poses for a picture on the front steps of Marshall School in this January 1927 photograph. The 10-room schoolhouse was built in 1904, and through the twenty-first century, stands as the largest surviving example of Classical Revival...
A class stands posed for the camera in this late 1920s photograph. Several children are wearing coats or sweaters and three girls in the front row are wearing long striped socks. One little girl in the back row holds out the edge of a flag that...
In this shot, many of the children wear rosettes with long trailing ribbons. All are dressed very nicely and looking seriously at the camera. A young man in the back row holds his right arm across his chest, displaying an American flag (June 9,...
