This November 3, 1932, photograph shows the Saint Patrick’s Home for Children at 5945 Franklin Boulevard. The 250,000 dollar structure was dedicated on August 1, 1932, and received its first tenants three weeks later. It replaced a similar...
The Del Paso Country Club's new swimming pool is the subject of this August 13, 1929, photograph. The pool was christened on June 23 with a series of amateur water races, including freestyle, diving, and back stroke. The event proved the crescendo...
Shown in 1925 is the Washington Grammar School soccer team, the 90-pound soccer champions for the city of Sacramento. The team defeated Newton Booth 2-0 in the title game, held at McKinley Park. It was their fourth city championship in a row and,...
Captured in 1955 is the entrance to Sutter's Fort. Two cannons stand sentinel over the venerable spot while a woman and two children exit the grounds. Sutter's Fort is located at Twenty-Seventh and L Streets.
This 1955 photograph captures Marshall Elementary School on 2718 G Street. Built in 1904 for 80,485 dollars, the school - well into the twenty-first century - stood as Sacramento's oldest existing school facility. Due to Field Act non-compliance,...
This 1980 photograph shows William Land Park’s pony course, consisting of 150 yards of trails. The attraction was started up in 1926 by Martin Bryant and operated through Second World War, a time when gas rationing did nothing to hinder parents...
The World's Fair Rodeo Parade makes its way east, down K Street, in this May 1939 photograph. A stagecoach, piled with cowboys, skirts the south side of K Street. The street's edges are filled with spectators, including many children. Visible...
Several riders, participating in the 1939 World's Fair, make their way down K Street, between Tenth and Eleventh Streets, in this May 1939 photograph. The edges of the course are filled with spectators, including many children. Businesses along...
A view of the Children's Room located on the first floor of the Sacramento Public Library's Central Library as it appeared around the time of the opening in 1918.
The Sacramento Little League team representing Stop and Shop Markets poses on Malcom Hersko Field for this 1956 photograph. Opening in 1956, the field was located behind the Sacramento Children's Home at 2750 Sutterville Road, and was named for...
A view of the Children's Room located on the first floor of the Sacramento Public Library's Central Library as it appeared around the time of the opening in 1918.
This circa 1900 postcard shows two children enjoying a fraction of Capitol Park's enormous compliment of flowers. The State Gardener at that time was Matthew H. Dunn, a native of England. He was responsible for the addition of pathways along L...
This circa 1900 postcard shows the Southern Pacific Railroad Hospital, with children sitting at the southeast corner of Seventh and F streets. The would be hospital was built in 1870, very likely by San Francisco-based architect Seth Babson whose...
Shown in circa 1970 is a throng of children guiding Cinderella's Coach at Fairy Tale Town. The concept for a storybook-themed park was the idea, in 1955, of the Junior League of Sacramento. The park's sets were designed by local sculptor and...
Children take in the novelty of riding on the Oak Park Amusement Park's miniature train, in this circa 1910 postcard. The park opened in 1889, the transport to which was provided, in many cases, by six closed streetcars, operating between downtown...
This circa 1930 postcard shows children fishing at pond in the southern section of William Land Park with the park's club house and statute of Charles Swanston -- the previous owner of the land -- visible in the distance. The business stamped onto...
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...
