This 1939 view from the Senator Hotel at 1121 L Street shows the spires and apse of the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament at 1017 Eleventh Street. Several men in the foreground are painting the word "Sacramento" on the roof of the Weinstock,...
This circa 1925 photograph shows the north entrance to the Masonic Lawn Cemetery at 2700 Riverside Boulevard. Beyond an arched gateway with the words “Masonic Lawn” and the Masonic “G” symbol written on it, several headstones and tombs can...
Pictured in circa 1930 are grounds of the Masonic Lawn Cemetery at 2700 Riverside Boulevard. The sections of the bare land, situated in the new section of the cemetery, are broken up by several trees and bushes. In the distance, and to the south,...
Pictured in circa 1930 is the main entrance to the Masonic Lawn Cemetery at 2700 Riverside Boulevard. Riverside Boulevard runs north-south in the foreground, while tracks for the Pacific Gas and Electric streetcar are also visible. Within five...
This circa 1910 photograph shows the Elks Club as it sat at 824 J Street. The cornerstone for the building was layed on September 10, 1905. Republican Congressman Grove L. Johnson spoke at the occasion. The five-story structure, with a 42-foot...
Taken in circa 1907, this photograph reveals the lounging room of the Elks Temple at 824 J Street. The second floor room contains a piano, billiard table, gramophone and stuffed elk. The room also provided access to a balcony, allowing some of...
This January 6, 1945, photograph shows a group portrait of Legionarios Del Trabajo, Lodge number 618, also known as the Camellia Lodge. The picture was taken at the Legionarios Del Trabajo Temple at 225 Capitol Avenue. Founded in San Francisco in...
This May 19, 1936, photograph, show four members of the International Footprint Association. The organization was founded in 1929 in an effort to strengthen bonds between law enforcement and the general public. At the time of the photograph,...
The California Fruit Building provides the vantage point for this circa 1940 photograph. Beyond the rear of the Travelers Hotel, the distance reveals, from left to right, the Elks Building, the California Western State Life Insurance Building, and...
Pictured in circa 1907 is the meeting hall at the Elks Temple at 824 J Street. The room was 43 by 60 feet in size with a height of 32 feet. It was also fitted with a miniature stage for live entertainment, a spring floor for dancing, and an...
Taken in 1921, this unique eaves-view photograph looks southerly, down Ninth Street from the northeast corner of Ninth and J Street. Most prominent is the storefront and sign of the Sterling Electrical Company, owned and operated by William Albert...
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...
Viewed from the southeast, on August 27, 1930, is the monolithic Elks Lodge Number 6 at 925 Eleventh Street. Dedicated on July 3, 1926, fundraising for the 1.5 million dollar structure started in 1905. In the one year that it took a crew of 150...
This circa 1907 photograph provides a view of the library at the Elks Temple at 824 J Street. Prominent is the beam work and molding, made of Flemish oak and mahogany. Bookcases bracket a fireplace, in front of which is a large, wooden table...
This circa 1950 photograph shows a horse-drawn Budweiser wagon resting outside of the Elks Temple at 925 Eleventh Street. To the right of the picture is a sign for the Top of the Town Restaurant, a fourteenth-floor eatery and lounge that provided...
This circa 1920 photograph shows the interior of the Turner Hall Café at 914 K Street. Notables posing are co-owners Louis Graber (standing with elbow on bar) and William Dreher (seated left-of-center facing camera, left hand holding glasses). ...
This composite of portraits of early California pioneers shows members of the Sacramento Society of California Pioneers. The organization was composed of - as stated in the "Constitution and By-Laws of the Sacramento Society of California...
The Turnverein Building on 3349 J Street is the subject of this photograph, taken in 1925, the same year that the structure was built. The cornerstone for the 100,000 dollar building was laid on October 25, 1925, enabling the organization to move...
Sacramento pedestrians brave a slushy southwest corner of Ninth and K Streets in this March 14, 1942, photograph. The surprise weather brought out the eccentric in Capital citizens: from skiing down K Street to the hurling of snowballs at passing...
The entrance to the Masonic Temple at 1123 J Street is shown in this 1925 photograph. Flanking the doorway are two penitent Knights Templar. Between the two, and above the doorway, is an arch of impish terra cotta cherubim. Constructed between...
