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...
Photograph taken in 1952 of the founders of Bercut-Richards Packing Company, Thomas H. Richards and Peter Bercut. One of the largest employers within Sacramento's city limits and an integral part of the local economy, both men were honored with...
Posing smartly in this 1940 photograph is Sacramento City Councilman Peter E. Mitchell. After serving with the council for nine years, the Sacramento native moved into state government, standing as President of the California Public Utilities...
Sitting at 5022 Fifty-Eighth Street in 1955 is Peter Lassen Junior High School, resting alongside Mark Twain Elementary School on the far right. Named for the early California pioneer and secessionist, Lassen was dedicated on October 31, 1954. ...
This circa 1950 postcard shows Peter Slater's Saloon, set within Sutter's Fort, located at Twenty-Seventh and L Streets. Slater, a native of Independence, Missouri, widower, and father of 9 children. According to historian Laura T. Collins,...
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...
C.K. McClatchy Senior High School is located at 3066 Freeport Boulevard in Sacramento, California. Named after “Sacramento Bee” newspaper editor and owner Charles Kenny McClatchy, the school was built in 1937 by way of Public Works...
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...
The arrival of the Sisters of Mercy from San Francisco in 1857 began a tradition of education that served Sacramento for over a century. Commercial and traditional subjects along with lessons in musical instruments were the courses taught at St....
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 ceramic column was photographed in 1918. It was created by the Gladding, McBean Company, located on 601 Seventh Street in Lincoln, California. Founded in 1875 by Peter McGill McBean, George Chambers, and Charles Gladding, the company's terra...
This circa 1946 photograph shows members of the Sacramento City Council posed within Council Chambers. Left to right are Paul Taylor, Roy J. Nielson, George F. Watrus, Fred W. Arnold, City Clerk Harry Denton, George Klump, City Manager Bartley...
Taken in 1865, this photograph shows the Central Pacific Railroad locomotive “A. A. Sargent,” also known as number seven, at the foot of J Street, facing east from Front Street. The locomotive’s namesake, Aaron Augustus Sargent, served as...
Pictured in 1930 is Christian Brothers’ School at Twenty-First and Y Streets. The ornate Mission Revival-style building was built in 1924 by the Sacramento contracting firm of W.C. Keating. Notable alumni include Superior Court judges Peter J....
This circa 1960 photograph shows the Capital Palace Café at 400 J Street. It rested on the southeast corner of Fourth and J Streets and was established by the Battaglia brothers, John and Peter, in 1938. Natives of Jackson, California, and first...
This portrait of Sacramento Superior Court judges Malcolm Glenn, Peter Shields and Raymond Coughlin was taken in 1947. They stand left to right, respectively. Glenn spent 43 years as a civil court judge, appointed to the bench in 1914. Also a...
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,...
Taken in 1865, this photograph shows the Central Pacific Railroad locomotive “A. A. Sargent,” also known as number seven, at the foot of J Street, facing east from Front Street. The locomotive’s namesake, Aaron Augustus Sargent, served as...
Taken on September 1, 1946, is a class picture at Bret Harte School, located at 3250 Franklin Boulevard. Pictured are 29 students and two teachers. They are identified as follows: Adams, Judy, bottom row, left to right #3; Clark, Bob-Top...
Just beyond the eastern banks of the Sacramento River, a happy group gathers at the opening of Golden West Motors Company. Located at Seventh Avenue and Riverside Boulevard, the business officially opened on July 1, 1914, when Miss Phenette Miller...
