Photograph, taken in August, 1942, of a table with a display of canned fruits and vegetables. Seven women employees surround the display, dressed in uniforms. Identified are: top, second from left, Dorothy Rose; second from right, Minnie Katen; and...
The preparation room of the Libby, McNeill and Libby cannery is shown prominently in this 1935 photograph, taken from the corner of Thirty-First Street and Stockton Boulevard. As of March 1929, Sacramento’s four canneries were employing over...
A banana plant grows in Sacramento in this circa 1900 postcard. What had been a mere curiosity to Americans for decades had, by the late nineteenth-century, become a staple as, in 1889, an estimated 1.2 billion bananas had been eaten by American...
This circa 1900 postcard provides a still life of magnolia blossoms and lemon slices. The magnolia, a plant native to the American South, can draw its California origins to the Gold Rush, having been transported west by southern born Argonauts. ...
This circa 1940 postcard declares "Greetings from Sacramento." Within the scripting, moving left to right, are Sutter's Fort, K Street, McClellan Field, the Tower Bridge, the Sacramento River, the Memorial Auditorium, City Hall, the Southern...
This circa 1945 postcard provides a lettered montage of notable Sacramento sites, including the California State Capitol building, one of the Capitol Extension buildings, a century tree in Capitol Park, an orange tree, and the Land Park...
"Among the earliest California oranges to reach Eastern markets are the products of the many fine groves in the Fair Oaks district" is the description printed on the back of this postcard. From 1880 to the late 1940s citrus in California grew...
According to a Sacramento County California booklet printed in 1910, lemons had a gross yield per acre of $200.00 to $700.00. The citrus colony of Fair Oaks was one example of a local citrus colony that grew lemons. In 1900 the colony contained...
The arrival of the Sisters of Mercy from San Francisco in 1857 began a tradition of education that served Sacramento for over a century. Commercial and traditional subjects along with lessons in musical instruments were the courses taught at St....
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...
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