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...
This 1953 postcard shows the newly-dedicated California Western Insurance Building at 2020 L Street. The five story structure was viewed to be an exemplum of "efficiency for today and flexibility for tomorrow" with its 350-ton air conditioning...
This April 12, 1935, image captures the front of A. J. Affleck Drugs, A. J. Affleck Laboratories, and California Western State Life Insurance Company at 1006 through 1008 Tenth Street. Three men appear at the business's entrance at the northeast...
This circa 1930 photograph of the 14-story California Western State Life Insurance Building, also known as the Cal-West Building, was taken from across a shaded Plaza Park from the east side of Tenth Street in the 1920s. It was the tallest...
Shown at the southwest corner of Eighth and J Streets in 1920 is the eight-story People’s Savings Bank. The structure was built in 1911 by the Thompson-Sterrett Company. Building tenants included as follows: New York Life Insurance Company,...
Shown in circa 1945, and as seen from Plaza Park, is the Western States Life Insurance Building, located at 926 J Street. Constructed in 1925, the building housed Western States until its removal to a new Midtown headquarters in 1953. The 14-story...
Resting at the southwest corner of Tenth and J streets, in 1928, is the California State Life Insurance Company building. Long a Sacramento landmark and originally built to provide office space, the 14-story, Beaux Arts-style building was...
This circa 1928 postcard shows the California State Life Insurance Company's headquarters, located at 926 J Street. The 14-story building was built to contain 85,000 square feet of office space and 8,000 square feet of street level retail shops. ...
The California Fruit Building provides the vantage point for this circa 1940 photograph. Beyond the rear of the Travelers Hotel, the distance reveals, from left to right, the Elks Building, the California Western State Life Insurance Building, and...
This wide open view of the northern reaches of William Land Park was taken in 1926. To the photograph’s left is the memorial statue and fountain of Charles Swanston, built in 1923/24 by Paris-based sculpture Ralph Stackpole, who also created the...
The southeast corner of Eighth and J Streets is captured in this circa 1940 photograph. Businesses shown are Hank's Smoke Shop at 800 J Street, George Lidekas Fruits at 802 J Street, Chris' Blue Plate Special at 1001a Eighth Street, Ramona Shoe...
This sidewalk photograph, along Tenth Street, between N Street and Capitol Avenue, was taken in circa 1933. The most immediate structure to the left is Library and Courts Building, while visible in the distance is the Classical-style facade of...
Photograph, taken in 1960, of the Sacramento Bail Bond Agency or Sacramento Insurance & Bond Agency (600 I Street), Robinson Hotel (602 I Street), Sacramento Collection Service Incorporated (606 I Street, on the southeast corner), and Joe Cotton...
This quiet street scene, photographed January 25, 1945, features two automobiles parked at the curb in front of the following businesses: F.E. Lauppe Commercial Insurance, (1319 K Street), Leslie H. Watkins, Optometrist (1321 K Street), John J....
In this circa 1930 photograph, a parade ooches west on J Street. Legible signs include the Travelers Hotel at 460 J Street, the Berkeley Hotel 418 J Street and the Sutter Theater at 519 J Street. In the distance, the Elks Club building at 925...
In this 2002 photograph, a large elm tree is removed from Cesar Chavez Park at Ninth and I Street. In the background, and on the south side of J Street, is the California Western States Life Insurance Company building, built in 1925.
Mexican fan palms frame a busy stretch of Tenth Street, between N and L Streets in this postcard. To the left of the image are, in the foreground, the Library and Courts building while, in the background, showing columns, pediment and frieze, is...
This postcard shows a fan palm-shrouded Tenth Street, as taken from State Office Building Number 3 at the southeast corner of Tenth and N Streets. To the left is the Library and Courts Building while, beyond it, is State Office Building Number 1. ...
This colorful 1945 postcard provides a view, looking north on Tenth Street from its intersection with N Street. The California State Library and Courts Building is on the left, with the California Western State Life Insurance Building, also known...
