"The newest and perhaps the handsomest building occupied by the (Fire) department is Hook and Ladder House No. 1, situated on the corner of the alley on Sixth Street, between K and L" is how the Sacramento Bee for April 19, 1890, described the...
A 1938 photograph of a float in a parade honoring the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Canadian Legion Ladies Auxiliary. Also pictured are the band members wearing kilts and carrying bagpipes and drums.
A busy corner of K Street and Eighth Street dated October 27, 1937. Pedestrians are walking along the sidewalks and crossing the street. Automobiles are traveling along the streets and are parked at the curb. Businesses seen include the Hotel...
A Cadillac with prominent tail fins is parked at the curb in front of three buildings on I Street. At the corner is the Emergency Bail Bond Service (630 I Street). The center building houses the Stephen G. Sardon Civil Engineer & Surveyor (626 I...
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...
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...
A circa 1925 photo of an unidentified horseman on his mount dressed in riding costume on the track at the California State Fair in this portrait from Frederick Burkett Studios.
A circa 1926 photograph of the Batey Bros. Garage in Elk Grove. L-R: Reginald Rolfe; William Batey; Elton Ronk, mechanic; Mathew Lee Batey; Homer Derr; Robert Batey; Roy Hand - Chevrolet, representative (from the factory).
A circa 1960 photograph of 1123-1125 Fifth Street, with Marie Kay's Beauty Salon at 1123 Fifth Street. There were rooms for rent at 1123 and an empty store at 1125 Fifth Street. A Shell Gasoline station, built in 1909, stood at the corner.
A circa 1960 photograph of Fifth Street, with Hotel Alexander at 1121 Fifth Street, Marie Kay's Beauty Salon at 1123 Fifth Street, rooms for rent at 1123 Fifth street, an empty store at 1125 Fifth Street, and Shell Service Station at 1127-1131...
A circa 1960 view of the Shell Service Station at 501 L Street (northeast corner), the Alexander Hotel at 1121 Fifth Street, and the Delta Hotel at 511 L Street.
A class at Marshall School poses for a picture on a sunny June 5, 1930. Students stand in neat rows on the front steps of Marshall School and one boy holds an American flag.
A class at Marshall School poses for a picture on a sunny June 5, 1930. Students stand in neat rows on the front steps of Marshall School and one boy holds an American flag.
A class from Marshall School stands smiling for the camera. All the girls in the first row wear rosettes with long ribbons. A boy at the left end of the back row displays the flag with a grin.
A class picture - perhaps the new graduates - at Marshall School. Thirty-nine students pose in three rows for the photographer. A boy in the back row hold up an American flag. All the students are wearing a rosette with long trailing ribbons.
A class poses for a picture against a tree-shaded wall at Marshall School. A girl with long braids holds the American flag at the left end of the middle row (June 14, 1926).
