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,...
Photograph circa 1949 of the back of the Sacramento County Courthouse featuring sheriffs posing with their vehicles. Construction on the first county courthouse at Seventh Street and I began in 1850 and the building opened late in 1851, only to be...
A front view of the Sacramento County Hospital located at 2221 Stockton Boulevard, this picture was taken ca. 1955. Sacramento County Hospital opened in 1871, and it burned down on October 5, 1879. It was rebuilt and completed in July of 1879. By...
This postcard reveals both the logo and mission of the California County Free Library system, founded in April 1909. In 1908, Sacramento County's Elk Grove library became the first County Free Library branch in the State of California, mostly via...
According to an account in Mc Gowan’s “History of the Sacramento Valley;” hops was a specialty crop grown in rows. However this crop was found only in a few areas of the Sacramento Valley. Yuba County claimed the most extensive hop fields...
Hops was a specialty crop grown in rows. However this crop was found only in a few areas of the Sacramento Valley. “Yuba County claimed the most extensive hop fields in the world with over a thousand acres near Wheatland.’ (Mc Gowan’s...
This photograph of the Sacramento County Hospital's administrative building was taken on May 10, 1931. Beneath its brick shell, the was building was constructed with steel framing and reinforced concrete. Jutting from the left is one of six...
This circa 1927 photograph shows the Nurses' Home of the Sacramento County Hospital, located at Stockton Boulevard and V Street. On the photograph's left are the hospital's northern wards. Construction on the facility was ongoing from 1915 to...
Pictured in 1926, at Sixteenth Avenue and Freeport Boulevard, is William Land Park’s World War One Veteran’s Memorial. The 2,000 dollar monument was donated by the Women’s Council of Sacramento County and reads as follows: “Dedicated To...
The Sacramento County Courthouse, located on I Street between Sixth and Seventh Streets, is the subject of this photograph. The ornate yet rough-hewn building was state-of-the-art when designed and constructed between 1910 and 1913, but by the time...
Taken from the southwest corner of Seventh and I Streets, this 1956 photograph shows the front and side of the County of Sacramento Administration Building at 827 Seventh Street. The structure was completed in the same year for nearly two million...
This circa 1960 photochrome postcard shows the Main Building of the Sacramento County Hospital on Stockton Boulevard. The 878 bed facility was state-of-the-art when it was constructed in 1950/51. The description on the back of the card reads...
Shown in 1915 is the Sacramento County Hospital, located at Upper Stockton Road, three miles southeast of Sacramento's Plaza Park. Opened in 1879, the complex's layout was based on the pavilion model, whereby the pictured central building would be...
Shown in 1906, and on the north side of I Street, are, to the left, the Hall of Records, and, to the right, the County Courthouse. Opened in April 1882, the Hall of Records -- distinguished by its heavy iron doors and granite exterior -- took one...
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...
This 1910 photograph captures a still-under-construction I Street Bridge, as taken from the Yolo County side of the Sacramento River. Notice the concrete piers in pristine condition, and old wooden span, yet to be dismantled. The new bridge was...
This December 10, 1940, photograph reveals the storefront and staff of the Roma Wine Company, a wholesale liquor dealer, located at 1311 I Street. At the time the photograph was taken, Sacramento County was producing upwards to 3, 000, 000 gallons...
Shown here, in circa 1950, is the business office of the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) at 2101 K Street. The power utility was created by the vote of Sacramento County residents on July 11, 1923. For the next two decades, however,...
This March 27, 1929, photograph from the southwest corner of the Sacramento County Hospital looks toward the facility's 243-foot wide administrative building. To the left of the photograph are the three southern wards of the hospital. Five years...
This 1928 photograph provides as aerial view of the Sacramento County Hospital at Stockton Boulevard and V Street. Originally established in 1897, ground was broken on a new building in 1915 and underwent several additions and renovations before...
