Shown here on April 4, 1946, is the Thys Iron and Steel Foundry at 6900 Folsom Boulevard. The business was established in 1940 by the eccentric Edouard Thys, an Eton-educated Belgian aristocrat and electrical engineer, and his equally eccentric...
This 1960 photograph shows the Union Iron Works at 1415 Front Street. The business was founded in 1860, but was purchased by its highest-profile owner, Otto F. Link, in 1940. The Auburn-native went to work for Union in 1925, eventually working...
Taken in 1998, this wrought iron gate depicts two lambs lying under a weeping willow. It is inscribed with the name "Z. Gardner" with a date of 1863. The gate is located at Sacramento's Old City Cemetery at 1000 Broadway.
This photograph, taken in 1998, shows a wrought iron gates depicting two lambs lying under a weeping willow. It includes the name "J.D. Tate," and is dated 1888. The gate is located at Sacramento's Old City Cemetery at 1000 Broadway.
This circa 1995 postcard shows the Crocker Art Gallery at Second and O streets. The pictured section of the gallery was constructed in 1872, housing an initial collection of 700 items. Its construction proved a boon for local contractors,...
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...
Taken on November 14, 1939, this photograph shows the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament at 1017 Eleventh Street. Several period cards are parked on Eleventh Street. Designed after Paris’s Church of the Holy Trinity and the passion of Bishop...
Here is a view of the Hotel Sacramento as it sits under construction in circa 1908. The primary building medium was concrete - the floors, stairways and columns were all composed to it. Just two to three years out from the San Francisco...
This 1873 photograph shows the prime facilities of the Central Pacific Railroad shops. In the foreground is the 90 by 230-foot car building shop. To the left of it is the 60 by 125-foot blacksmith shop. Behind both is the cabinet shop, boasting...
This August 28, 1932, photograph shows the fire-engulfed wood and iron remains of River Lines boats, moored along the west banks of the Sacramento River. Priming the conflagration were powerful winds, dry conditions which had lasted for weeks, and...
A flooded Del Paso Boulevard is the subject of this February 1927 photograph. A rain and wind storm on February 16/17 pushed the American and Sacramento Rivers over their banks. In spite of the flooded artery, residential sections of North...
A street scene of a single brick building facing Fourth Street. In raised letters across the front of the decorative facade is "Louie Fong & Fong Assn" (916 Fourth Street). The street level windows along the front of the building are enclosed...
Photograph taken on February 6, 1930 shows a quiet street with homes on the right and to the left, the California Iron and Metal Company. Automobiles are parked at the curb.
View of a building scheduled to be demolished. Going-out-of-business signs appear behind iron gates on the entrance to the building. In view are the Strand Rooms (220? J Street) and Louie's Barbershop (222 J Street).
This 1981 photograph captures proceedings of Sacramento’s inaugural Railfair celebration, a 10-day-long event celebrating California’s railroad heritage. A locomotive – Central Pacific Railroad locomotive “Nevada” – makes its way...
The metallic features of Sacramento's City Hall, located at 901 I Street, are shown in this circa 1912 postcard. The copper exteriors of the building's main entrance doors as well as the tower's cupola and finial are prominent. The four-sided,...
This circa 1945 photochrome color postcard shows the Governor's Mansion, located at the intersection of Sixteenth Street and H Street. Although originally painted gray to give the impression of stone, the structure was painted white with the...
This circa 1925 postcard shows McKinley Park's Lake Kiesel. The body of water was in jeopardy of drying up in early spring 1936; not because of drought, but because of the water lilies that were parching it. Park superintendent Frederick N. Evans...
