The Chinese inscription on this photograph states: "United States Second City Dancing Party at Hong King Lum" The October 13, 1932, dance commemorates the second anniversary of the establishment's new location. Numerous couples pose for the camera...
This photograph of the interior of Yee’s Herb Shop at 707-and-a-half J Street was taken in circa 1935. Its founder, Henry Yee, came to Sacramento from China in 1906 and would come to live a life of varied interests. After graduating from the...
Photograph, taken circa 1960, of the Morris Hotel (1007 Fourth Street), the Chinese Laundry and Grocery Workers Association (1011 Fourth Street), and the Arch Cafe, a cafe and tavern (1015 Fourth Street).
A street scene of a single brick building facing Fourth Street. In raised letters across the front of the decorative facade is "Louie Fong & Fong Assn" (916 Fourth Street). The street level windows along the front of the building are enclosed...
Street front along Fourth Street shows the Acme Transfer and Storage Company (912 Fourth Street) with large sign mounted on the front of the building and with a large moving truck parked at the curb in front of the building. Hidden from view by...
This street scene shows a clear view of the store front location of Kuo Min Tang, the Chinese Women's New Life Association. The front door is emblazoned with a sun design emblem (for the Kuu Min Tang, a Chinese Nationalist Political Party) and a...
Photograph, taken circa 1960, of J Street between Third and Fourth, showing the Star Cafe (tavern) (300 J Street), at the corner in the Nagele Building, the Plaza Hotel (300 J Street), the Troy Hotel (302 J Street), the Capital Farm Implement...
As early as the mid-nineteenth century, American churches conducted evening language classes in order to assist Chinese immigrants in the reading of scripture. In Sacramento, it was Eliza Willsie and Mary Allen’s Baptist Mission on 907 Fifth...
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...
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