Captured in this postcard is Thomas Hill's 1865 "Sugar Loaf Peak." The peak is located in El Dorado County, California, and approximately 60-miles northeast of Sacramento. Hill, an Englishman by birth, went on to become one of the great artists of...
This circa 1990 postcard shows Thomas Hill's "Great Canyon of the Sierra," which gained the prestigious New York Pallette AClub medal. E.B. and Margaret Crocker purchased the painting in 1873, then hanging it on the south wall of what would become...
A canny businessman and idealistic philanthropist, David Lubin and his brother-in-law Harris Weinstock made Weinstock-Lubin the Sacramento area’s best-known and most popular mercantile establishment for over a century. By the time of his death in...
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