This postcard shows the crumbling central building at Sutter's Fort. When the fort was active, the depicted structure was frenzied with activity vital to the function of the compound, the business interests of the Sutter, and the morale of the...
This 1915 postcard shows a newly-restored Sutter's Fort, as seen from the northeast. The forts adobe-style walls were rebuilt with new brick at a height of 16 feet. The exact layout and angle of the fort's walls was determined by finding...
Photograph dated March 13, 1947, the vessel identified as the "Fort Sutter" (1912-1959). The old Sacramento/San Joaquin passenger riverboat Fort Sutter, still in its wartime gray, is shown moored at Three Mile Slough in the Sacramento/San Joaquin...
Shown in circa 1885 is Sutter Fort's multi-purpose central building, just before restoration in 1890. Prior to rehabilitation, the central building was the only portion of the original fort left and was viewed to be the first vestige of the fort...
Shown in 1915 is Sutter's Fort, as viewed from the southeast. Cattle graze just outside the fort's northern wall. The card's inset shows the fort's central building. The annotation - "Sutter's Fort near Sacramento, Where Gold was First...
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...
Sacramento and Sutter's Fort celebrated its100th anniversary in 1939 with a "Golden Empire" Centennial. Many of the celebrants dressed (and posed) in pioneer costume. The ladies are on the balcony of the central building at the Fort while the...
Taken in circa 1930, this phorograph shows a unique view of the southern wall at Sutter's Fort. In the distance is the fort's jailhouse. The fort is located at 2701 L Street.
The eastern entrance of Sutter's Fort is captured in this circa 1925 photograph. To the left of the frame is the fort's turreted jail. The fort is located at Twenty-Seventh and L Streets.
Taken in 1937, this photograh shows the southern entrance to Sutter's Fort. Flanked on either side of fan palms, the entramce is also guarded by a single canon. The gate sign reads "1839 Sutter's Fort." A California State Park since 1947, the...
The nothwestern grounds of Sutter's Fort are captured in this April 1937 photograph. Along the western wall and written in well-trimmed planted beds are the words "Sutter Fort." Sutter's Fort is located at Twenty-Seventh and L Streets.
This idyllic scene on the northern side of Sutter's Fort was captured in 1937. Visible are a pond, covered with water lilies, and a walkway where a wicker baby buggy and small child stand. To the right of that, a woman stands below a tree,...
This postcard shows the northern grounds of Sutter's Fort, as seen from K Street. Also visible are the fort's northwest bastion and pond. Prior to earnest restoration in the 1890s, the pond had been a slough, running east to west. It was...
This 1905 postcard shows Sutter's Fort, as viewed from the southeast. A year later, the fort would become a place of comfort for hundreds of San Franciscans, displaced by the April 18, 1906, earthquake. By the end of April, facilities for eating,...
This postcard depicts one of two ponds, located to the north of Sutter's Fort at 2701 L Street. The ponds were crafted from a slough that had served as the primary supplier of water for the fort, from its inception in 1839. The ponds were created...
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...
This rare circa 1915 photograph shows the northern grounds of Sutter's Fort. In the foreground, a cow feeds on grass, standing behind a line of barbed wire runs. In the middle of the photograph is the compound's blockhouse. The fort is located...
Pictured on October 8, 1930, is the neatly trimmed lawn of Sutter's Fort, sloping upward to the building's eastern entrance. Two cannons mark the entry way. The fort is located at Twenty-Seventh and L Streets.
This March 28, 1931, photograph show visitors standing on stairs to the main building inside Sutter's Fort, located at Twenty-Seventh and L Streets. Springtime brings blossoms to a few of the trees on the fort's grounds.
