This 1955 photograph shows the front of the Harry August Nauman Funeral Home at 2021 Twenty-Eighth Street. Nauman came to Sacramento from Pennsylvania in 1889 and went into the mortuary business after a stint as an executive with the John Breuner...
This November 1937 photograph captures the swearing in of the newest members of the Sacramento City Council. In the front row, left to right, are Michael Kunz, John M Welsh, Ray Coughlin, Tom Monk, C. H. S. Bidwell, and William E. Truesdale. In...
This 1912 photograph shows the graduating class at Mary J. Watson Grammar School, located at Fifteenth and J streets. In the first row are Gordon Lilly, Harold A. Wulff, Foris McCullough; second row are Bernard Henry, Helen Best, Claire Pierson...
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...
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...
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...
The Pioneer Baking Company at 3226 Montgomery Street is captured in this February 18, 1929, photograph. A few years prior to the photograph, the company spent 25,000 dollars to improve facilities and roll out a new type of bread made from...
The evening of May 27, 1942, is enlightened by the neon sign of the Art Deco-style Hart's Restaurant at 919 K Street location. The location, previously occupied by the Vienna Restaurant, opened in the fall of 1937 with a chromium metal marquis,...
Resting on the northeast corner of Alhambra Boulevard and Casita Way on September 26, 1936, is the brick-clad Channel Pie Shop. The design brainchild of Sacramento architect Harry Devine, the 75 by 112 foot bakery was built in 1934 for 13,000...
Sacramento's outlet for International Business Machines - known to most of the world as IBM - located itself at 1015 Thirteenth Street in 1935. From its opening, until the year that this photograph was taken in 1949, the store's manager was...
Taken in 1947, this photograph captures the IXL Clothing Store for Men, located at 804 J Street. Founded by Harry Kaufmann in 1923, by 1986, IXL had grown into a 15 store enterprise, including locations in California, Oregon and Nevada. Until its...
The nave, apse and alter of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church at 3860 J Street are visible in this February 29, 1932 photograph. The walls of the nave were lined with acoustical plaster while the floor was made of marble. The far altar sits below...
Taken from the north side of J Street, this February 29, 1932, photograph shows the façade of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church at 3860 J Street. Prominent in the photograph are a rose window, Romanesque-style entrance, and Lombardy-style...
This circa 1946 photograph shows members of the Sacramento City Council posed within Council Chambers. Left to right are Paul Taylor, Roy J. Nielson, George F. Watrus, Fred W. Arnold, City Clerk Harry Denton, George Klump, City Manager Bartley...
The western leg of racetrack at the California State Fair is also a place of judgment as participants parade their livestock in this 1930s photograph. A team of horses in the center of the photograph is pulling a wagon labeled Meadow View Stock...
Taken in 1970, this photograph shows an unnamed sculpture and fountain done by Norman Grag. Located at the main branch of the Wells Fargo Bank at 500 Capitol Mall, the fountain was an example of the city's requirement that, in any building...
