This November 3, 1938 photograph shows Fulton Avenue at Sierra Boulevard, with automobiles parked in front of an orchard and a sign for a Chiropractor, Dr. P. R. Mandeville in the foreground. A mail box in the foreground bears the name A. J....
This September 20, 1957, photograph shows Buzz Patterson scoring a touchdown in a high school football game between La Sierra High School Longhorns and Bishop Armstrong High School Falcons at El Camino Stadium in Carmichael. Several Armstrong,...
This 1959 photograph captures a giddy troika of graduating seniors from La Sierra High School, located at 5330 Gibbons Drive, in Carmichael. In the center is commencement announcer Roberta Owens. Graduation speakers Bob Andrews and Janet Sjolund...
This circa 1990 postcard shows Thomas Hill's "Great Canyon of the Sierra," which gained the prestigious New York Pallette AClub medal. E.B. and Margaret Crocker purchased the painting in 1873, then hanging it on the south wall of what would become...
Founded in 1876 by the Brothers of the Christian Schools at the southwest corner of Twelfth and K Streets, Christian Brothers School has held subsequent locations at Twenty-First and Broadway, and 4315 Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard. After a...
In this August 1932 photograph, a parade comprised of various posts of the Veterans of Foreign Wars moves eastward, down K Street, between Seventh and Tenth Streets. Their presence represented Sacramento’s hosting of the VFW’s thirty-third...
Pictured on March 31, 1947, are the Esquire Theater and Stanley T. Lovett Jewelers at 1219 and 1217 K Street, respectively. Designed by noted theater architect William B. David of San Francisco, the Esquire opened at 5:00 pm on March 14, 1940, for...
This westerly view of McKinley Boulevard and, to the right, Theodore Judah School was taken on January 16, 1941, from the street’s intersection with San Antonio Way. The school, located at 3919 McKinley Boulevard, was built in 1939, and then...
The California State Library and Courts Building and its Sierra white granite exterior shines in this 1929 photograph. Completed just a year earlier, the building was constructed with five floors, including a basement, and designed to provide...
This circa 1970 photograph shows the recently-redeveloped K Street Mall with a close-up of one of its signature water features. Designed in 1969 by four different Bay Area landscape architects, the 2.1 million dollar project called for six-blocks...
This photograph, taken November 17, 1938, shows Grant Union High School football team, posing near the school's swimming pool. Playing in the Sierra Football League, the Pacers still lined up against local rivals Sacramento High School and...
This photograph, taken in circa 1955, focuses on the front entrance of Sacramento Junior College's Main Classroom Building, at 3835 Freeport Boulevard. As viewed from the northwest, the frame shows an assortment of Colorado Spruce and Giant...
This photograph, taken in circa 1955, focuses on the front entrance of Sacramento Junior College's Main Classroom Building, at 3835 Freeport Boulevard. As viewed from the northwest, the frame shows an assortment of Colorado Spruce and Giant...
This 1866 photograph shows a busy main drag in the city of Cisco, California. Several Calistoga-style wagons crowd the frame of the photograph, making their way through a temporary city of saloons, hotels and livery stables. In the background are...
In this July 4, 1931, photograph, a group of axe-carrying young men, representing Capital Camp, make their way eastward on K Street, between Ninth and Tenth Streets. 1931’s Independence Day proved a memorable one in Sacramento: 17 fires were...
Resting at the southwest corner of Fifteenth and J Streets, in circa 1910, is the St. Paul's Episcopal Church. Founded in 1849, the church was first composed of wood. After a 1901 gale that demolished it St. Paul's was moved to the pictured 1430...
This postcard of the facade of the California State Capitol building provides a view from the corner of Tenth and N Streets. In the upper left-hand corner is the great seal of the State of California, featuring Minerva, the Roman goddess of...
This 1996 postcard shows an exhibit of Central Pacific Railroad engine number 1, the Governor Stanford, as it makes its way through the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The 4-4-0 locomotive entered into service in 1863 and was a vital tool in constructing...
This circa 1965 postcard shows Southern Pacific Railroad steam locomotive 4294. The 4-8-8-2 engine was built in March 1944 at the Balwin Locomotive Works in Eddystone, Pennsylvania. Retired in 1956, 4294 was used to transport trains through the...
Resting in the California State Railroad Museum at 111 I Street is the Central Pacific Railroad's "Governor Stanford" locomotive, also known as number one. The pictured exhibit simulates the locomotive's role in aiding the construction of the...
