Camp Sacramento is the setting for this 1928 tug-o-war challenge on the South Fork of the American River. The municipally-operated site has been a presence in Sacramento’s recreational heritage since 1920. During the season that this photograph...
Several members of Sacramento’s Business and Professional Women’s Club pose in this 1958 photograph. Founded in 1919, the group sought to elevate the standards for women in business and the professions, thereby promoting the overall economic,...
Shown on June 2, 1931, is a group portrait of the eighteen member Sacramento High School Girls' Riding Club. The group later changed its name to Merrie Mounted. Miss Beth Hightower and Mrs. Dorothy Barber organized the class in 1930; half of the...
This April 24, 1909, photograph captures activity on the M Street Bridge during the celebration of Sacramento’s fiftieth anniversary. The picture was taken from the west side or West Sacramento side of the bridge, looking east. In the distance,...
This 1961 photograph takes in three venerable examples of mid-to-late nineteenth century Sacramento architecture; left to right, the Golden Eagle Hotel, built between 1853 and 1860, the Post Office, built between 1890 and 1894, and the Ochsner...
Shown on May 31, 1930, several cloche-topped female archers participate in the Western Archery Association’s first annual tournament at William Land Park. The event included roughly 100 archers from throughout the American West. Sacramento’s...
This circa 2000 scene provides a window into Old Sacramento's Gold Rush Days, the annual rehabilitation of Sacramento's 49er roots. Visible upon dirt-covered streets are wagons and coaches on Second Street between J and K streets. Prominent...
Shown in 2000 is West Sacramento's Raley Field, home of the Pacific Coast League's Sacramento Rivercats. The 40 million dollar venue's 2000 opening marked the return of professional baseball to the Capitol region after a 25 year absence. The sale...
This 1963 postcard shows West Sacramento's 21-unit Flamingo Motel at 920 West Capitol Avenue. In the 1968 Sacramento phonebook, the motel claimed to have "one of Sacramento's finest" heated swimming pools. It also boasted "courtesy coffee,...
Taken from the southwestern corner of Eight and I Streets, this photograph reveals the Doric-columned colonnade of Sacramento’s United States Post Office and Federal Building on February 26, 1935. After 1.3 million dollars in construction...
Pictured on March 20, 1936, are the bustling locations of Leed’s Shoes and Lewis’s Women’s Apparel at 814 and 812 K Street, respectively. Leed’s had been at the pictured location since the fall of 1934, helping up to 100 of Sacramento’s...
March 23rd through 28th of 1922 meant the "Days of '49" celebration, a city-wide homage to Sacramento's Gold Rush past. Pictured are members of the Whiskerino Club, a few of the hundreds of Sacramentans who let their mustaches grow for the...
This March 13, 1950, photograph shows the water pumping station for Sacramento’s water filtration plant. Located just north of the city, and constructed in 1924, the pump was designed to slowly take water in by gravity, transferring it then to...
Taken on December 30, 2003, this photograph shows a dedication board for a mural that covered what had been Leroy’s Jewelers at the southeast corner of Eighth and K Streets. A victim of fire three years earlier, the building was razed the same...
This September 1895 photograph reveals a daytime look at various adornments for Sacramento’s Grand Electric Carnival, held to celebrate the July 1895 transmission of hydroelectric power from Folsom to Sacramento’s Station A on Sixth and H...
The Capitol Mall area of Sacramento basks in the glow of redevelopment in this 1967 postcard. Prior to urban renewal, in the area west of Ninth Street, Sacramento's West End accounted for eight percent of the city's area and 7.5 percent of the...
This evening photograph of Old Sacramento's Second Street, between I and J streets, was taken in circa 1990. Prior to Old Sacramento’s emergence from a center of urban blite to a State Historic Park in 1965, a series of ideas were proposed for...
This March 28, 1938, photograph captures western side of the Hotel Sacramento. Visible on the structure's first floor are the Hotel Sacramento's Coffee Shop (1107 Tenth Street), and Dr. Locke's X-Ray Shoe Store (1115 Tenth Street). The five-story...
This circa 1910 rendering shows Sacramento High School, located on the south side of K Street, between Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets. The school, costing 254,500 dollars, was built in 1908 by Sacramento-based architect R.A. Herold who would...
Shown on May 28, 1942, is the Oak Park Methodist Episcopal Church, at the corner of Thirty-Sixth Street and Sacramento Boulevard. Under the direction of Oakland-based architect Wilson J. Wythe, the exterior of the structure was made of hollow...
