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...
Growing children with no available outlet for further education was incentive enough for sixteen elementary school districts to establish California’s first union high school in Elk Grove. The initial building was housed in what is now Old Town...
Founded in 1876 by the Brothers of the Christian Schools at the southwest corner of Twelfth and K Streets, Christian Brothers School has held subsequent locations at Twenty-First and Broadway, and 4315 Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard. After a...
This April 12, 1941, photograph shows the California State Capitol building lobby and its statue of Columbus' last appeal to Queen Isabella of Spain. Carved in Florence, Italy, the statue was donated to the State in 1883 by local banker D.O. Mills...
This June 21, 1938, photograph captures the Florida Inn Motel, located at 6150 Auburn Boulevard. Owned by Henry and Ann Coldani, the Florida was a classic roadhouse, offering its signature half-fried chicken, some of the best parties and live...
The entrance to the Masonic Temple at 1123 J Street is shown in this 1925 photograph. Flanking the doorway are two penitent Knights Templar. Between the two, and above the doorway, is an arch of impish terra cotta cherubim. Constructed between...
Pictured in circa 1959 are the Dreamland Dance Hall at 917 Sixth Street, the Desmond Hotel at 919-and-a-half Sixth Street, and Victory Lunch at 921 Sixth Street. Dreamland was operated by Michael Campanella, an immigrant of Italy who came to...
This 1960 photograph shows a repurposed Eureka Engine Company Number Four Fire House at 1017 Fifth Street. Built in 1855, in the photograph, the structure holds the Happy Time Cafe at 1017 Fifth Street. The restaurant was operated by Peter Carli,...
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,...
This circa 1900 photograph shows a man, vintner James Frasinetti, delivering barrels of wine. He is doing so with a wagon, pulled by two horses. A native of Italy, Frasinetti founded his self-styled winery in 1897. It covered 400 acres of land...
This circa 1930 postcard shows the room in which Leland Stanford, Jr., was born, in May 1864. While on tour in Europe, in 1884, the boy came down with typhoid fever. He came under the care of Catholic nuns, but died in Florence, Italy, on March...
This postcard shows a California State Capitol building's sculpture, entitled "Columbus’ Last Appeal to Queen Isabella." It was created in Florence, Italy, by American sculptor Larkin Goldsmith Meade. It took six years to complete and has sat...
This circa 1911 postcard provides a view of Capitol Park. At that time, the park was view to contain some of the most unique flora in the western United States, boasting plants from every continent: date palms of Asia, Africa, and South America;...
Shown in circa 1915 is a portion of Capitol Park and the rear of the California State Capitol building. Started in 1869, the park was originally populated with over 200 different kinds of rare plant life from the around the world, including cedars...
This 1996 postcard shows the frieze, pediment and dome of the California State Capitol building as well as a statue of Christopher Columbus and Queen Isabella which stands below the building's interior rotunda. The statue was carved in Florence,...
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...
