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 1950, of the BE baseball team. In the front row, second from left, is Maurice Dutra; last on the right is Glen Smith. In the top row, last on the right is Joe Duarte; second from right is Jimmy Herrera; third from right is...
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...
Centered at the junction of the California Central rails and the Central Pacific Railway and named for the abundant wildflowers in the area, the town of Roseville formed a school district in 1869 but had no schoolhouse of its own until 1872. A...
Shown in 1996 is the Central Library's archives and research room, the Sacramento Room. Opened in 1995, the facility was set in the original reference room of the 1917 Andrew Carnergie-funded library. To the far right of the photograph is the...
The Christian Brothers High School baseball team poses in April 1933. During the 1933 season, lost only to the St. Mary's College freshman, also know as the Gael Babes. Prey included Sacramento High School and Grant Union High School. Pictured,...
A bustling scene on K Street was captured in this 1913 photograph. A horse and wagon in the photograph’s foreground contrasts a slowly shifting paradigm toward the use of automobiles. Sidewalks are lined with pedestrians. In the background and...
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...
A canny businessman and idealistic philanthropist, David Lubin and his brother-in-law Harris Weinstock made Weinstock-Lubin the Sacramento area’s best-known and most popular mercantile establishment for over a century. By the time of his death in...
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 circa 1955 photograph shows several storefronts on the south side of K Street, between Thirteenth and Fourteenth Streets. Dohrmann’s, at 1326 K Street, opened in 1952, offering over 200 patterns from nationally known brands of dinnerware,...
Pictured in 1926/27 is the service station of Bobby Schang and Lloyd Jones at the southeast corner of Twelfth and C Streets. Left to right are Lloyd Jones, "Grandpa" Jones, and Bobby Schang, purveyors of Shell gasoline. The man standing by the...
This November 1937 photograph captures the swearing in of the newest members of the Sacramento City Council. In the front row, left to right, are Michael Kunz, John M Welsh, Ray Coughlin, Tom Monk, C. H. S. Bidwell, and William E. Truesdale. In...
Four women ride horses, two abreast, at William Land Park in this circa 1930 photograph. In the background and to the north are several residences; the brick structure in the middle of the photograph is 1901 Thirteenth Avenue while the Tudor-style...
Pictured in 1863 is Front Street, near its intersection with K and L Streets. In the immediate foreground, with a train stopped at its side, is the Sacramento Valley Railroad depot; to the right of that is the freight depot of the Central Pacific...
This stretch of Third Street, between I and J Streets, reveals several businesses. To the far left of the frame is the Big Mug, a tavern at 231 J Street. The walls to the right are covered with large advertisements for Coca-Cola and Seven Up. ...
This circa 1960 photograph captures the southwestern corner of Third and I Streets. From left to right, the spaces at 230 and 228 I Street are vacant while Sun On Chong Oriental Goods appears to the far right of the frame at 226 I Street.
Mary Lutenegger and Art Lindsay stand behind a lattice-like barrier known as the Cage in the far left corner of the Pacific Grocery (2919 35th Street) in this photograph circa 1917. Dry goods of all kind are displayed for sale, from Ceylon tea to...
This 1992 photograph shows three different eras of Sacramento architecture. To the left of the photograph is the Angelo Tsakopoulos Galleria, built in 1992. To the right, and built in 1917, is Sacramento's Central Library at 828 I Street. To the...
As early as the mid-nineteenth century, American churches conducted evening language classes in order to assist Chinese immigrants in the reading of scripture. In Sacramento, it was Eliza Willsie and Mary Allen’s Baptist Mission on 907 Fifth...
