This portrait of Sacramento Superior Court judges Malcolm Glenn, Peter Shields and Raymond Coughlin was taken in 1947. They stand left to right, respectively. Glenn spent 43 years as a civil court judge, appointed to the bench in 1914. Also 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...
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...
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...
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...
A Cadillac with prominent tail fins is parked at the curb in front of three buildings on I Street. At the corner is the Emergency Bail Bond Service (630 I Street). The center building houses the Stephen G. Sardon Civil Engineer & Surveyor (626 I...
This 1960 corner view of I Street at Seventh Street depicts the Emergency Bail Bond Service (630 I Street). A man is enjoying the sun on a second floor balcony of the building where there are rooms for rent. To the left of this building on...
The Sacramento County Administration Building is shown in 1956, at the northeast corner of Seventh and I Streets. The five-story structure was completed in the same year, providing a home for the County's Welfare Department, Treasurer, Recorder,...
This photograph captures a tree-lined Greenback Lane near Orangevale, in circa 1925. In 1964, the artery was widened to 4 lanes, at the cost of several of the palms alligning the left side of the frame. A single vehicle is parked at the right...
This circa 1925 photograph captures longtime Sacramento schoolteacher, Eugene R. Lindberg. Born in Berkeley in 1904, Lindberg graduated from the University of California in 1929 with a degree in civil engineering and a teaching certificate. In...
In this circa 1935 photograph, members of the Knights of Pythias march down L Street in close order. The organization's Sacramento chapter, Lodge 11, celebrated its 71-year anniversary in February 1935. Its castle-style headquarters was located...
As seen from the east side of the Sacramento River, and constructed in 1935 by the Civil Works Administration, is the Tower Bridge. California Governor Frank Merriam presided at the opening ceremonies, held December 15, 1935, and declared the...
Resting upon two tiers of added earth at Tenth Street, between L and N Streets, is the California State Capitol building in 1869. The building’s grounds are barren, save a few saplings. Below the building’s façade are several workers. A...
A tree-shrouded California State Capitol Building is the focus of this linen-finished postcard published prior to the end of the Second World War in 1945. Aerial or elevated pictures of Sacramento color-tinted or printed were very popular, and the...
This colorful postcard shows the eastern entrance to Sutter's Fort. Prominently displayed are two of the many cannons that have been on display at the fort. At least two of which were active during the Civil War.
The floral splendor of the grounds of the Memorial Auditorium, located at Sixteenth and J streets, is captured in this circa 1930 postcard. Built in 1926 as a memorial to those Americans who died in defense of the nation, inscribed on the...
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...
