This photograph of the Pacific Gas and Electric Company building at 1100 K Street was taken on July 12, 1941. Set on the southeast corner of Eleventh and K Streets, the structure was built in 1912/13 as an administrative hub. It was made of...
This nighttime photograph of one of Sacramento’s most recognizable landmarks, the Tower Bridge, was taken in 1940. The Capitol dome, on the left side of the picture, has been superimposed. The earliest official support for a replacement for the...
Lundstrom’s Mercury-Lincoln car dealership is pictured at 1631 K Street in this July 25, 1948 photograph. The business was founded in 1941 by the Wisconsin-born Fred Lundstrom. A man known for his automotive connections, it is said that he was...
This photograph of the California Governor's Mansion was taken on July 24, 1943, from the northeast corner of Sixteenth and H Streets. When the structure was built by Albert Gallatin as a private residence in 1877, the area was semi-rural. The...
A work crew toils away at constructing a portion of the revetment along the Sacramento River in this July 1940 photograph. Just days prior to this, Colonel Warren T. Hannum of the Army Corps of Engineers declared that the Sacramento Valley's levee...
On July 1, 1944, this photograph was taken of the Goodyear Tire Store at 1724 Tenth Street. The structure was built in the spring of 1920 for 40,000 dollars and served as the primary distribution point for Goodyear products throughout California...
In this July 1936 photograph, a crew constructs a revetment along an unstable portion of the Sacramento River levee. A year prior to the photograph, the California State Board of Reclamation demanded of the Federal Government greater funding of...
This 1935 photograph shows an ivy-covered Libby, McNeill and Libby cannery, bordering Stockton Boulevard. On the left side of the photograph is the cannery’s first floor receiving area while just above is the can storage room. In September...
This 1935 photograph shows an ivy-covered Libby, McNeill and Libby cannery, bordering Stockton Boulevard. On the left side of the photograph is the cannery’s first floor receiving area while just above is the can storage room. In September...
The Little Giant Market sits on the corner of Sixteenth and Y Street in this January 15, 1937, photograph. The business was built in July 1935, a time when two other neighborhood markets put down roots in Sacramento: the Arata Brothers at 3195...
This photograph of J.J. Jacobs - Jack J. - Motor Company at 1500 K Street was taken on July 21, 1937. Jacobs came to California from his native Darby, Pennsylvania, in 1911, setting up his Sacramento Studebaker dealership in 1916. In 1934, he...
Taken on July 23, 1941, this photograph shows Marvin W. Glick's Loan Office, located at 626 J Street. The Ohio-born Glick ran as a Democrat for Sacramento City Council in the fall of 1940, but lost.
Pictured in 1895 is Fogalsang and Raplee's exhibit at the 1895 California State Fair. The electrician's shop was located at 1109 Tenth Street. On July 13, just weeks before the Fair's opening, the nation's first hydroelectric alternating-current...
This July 20, 1929, photograph shows the Sacramento Tire Company at 1530 L Street. A few years later, Goodyear would take over the L-shaped and Spanish-style property that was built, also in 1929, for 20,000 dollars by the Standard Oil Company of...
Shown here, in circa 1950, is the business office of the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) at 2101 K Street. The power utility was created by the vote of Sacramento County residents on July 11, 1923. For the next two decades, however,...
This photograph, taken on July 29, 1929, reveals the palatial courtroom of both the California State Supreme and Appellate Courts, located inside the Library and Courts building at 914 Capitol Avenue. The Courts occupied the first floor of the...
This photograph of Capitol Park and the northern wing of the California State Capitol building was taken on July 11, 1928. In the foreground is a mélange of temperate and tropical treetops. It was taken from a vantage point on the north side of...
This photograph of Bedell's Restaurant at 1117 Eleventh Street, was taken on July 25, 1947. During the 1940s and 50s, the bar and eatery was a popular meeting place for legislators and lobbyists.
Pictured here, in the 1920s, is a place holding a reputation for being one of the finest municipally- operated summer camps in the country, Camp Sacramento. Set at 6,500 feet and within a forty acre site known as Sayles Flat, the Camp opened in...
The W.T. Grant Company’s location at 722 K Street Store is shown in this September 1, 1944, photograph. Grant came to Sacramento in 1932 in an effort to expand its 39 state empire. The store opened in 1933, but was flamed in December of 1936 to...
