Photograph, taken November 11, 1932, of a football game at Sacramento Stadium on the Sacramento Junior College campus, located at 3835 Freeport Boulevard. The stadium was later renamed Hughes Stadium on November 18, 1944. Built in 1928 for 140,000...
The entrance to Grant Stadium at Grant Union High School is shown here in 1939. The venue was built the same year by the Works Progress Administration. Its design was intended to mirror that of Stanford University's Stanford Stadium, complete...
This November 11, 1933, photograph shows Armistice Day's American Legion-sponsored "Military Pageant" at Sacramento Stadium, located on the campus of Sacramento Junior College at 3835 Freeport Boulevard. After the display, Sacramento Junior...
This photograph captures the pyrotechnics of the Dawn of Gold and Historical Spectacle, held at Sacramento Municipal Stadium in August of 1939 to celebrate the Golden Empire Centennial. The event lasted three days and provided music and...
This July 1947 photograph shows busy box offices at the entrance to Edmonds Field at 1100 Broadway. Home to the Sacramento Solons baseball team, the stadium was built in 1922 as Moreing Field, named after team owner Lew Moreing. The stadium was...
Pictured on October 29, 1949, are the seats and projection facilities of the auditorium at the Crest Theater, located at 1013 K Street. The theater’s 1,200 seats are arranged in a stadium plan, divided into six sections. Gold leaf sconces both...
This wide open view of the northern reaches of William Land Park was taken in 1926. To the photograph’s left is the memorial statue and fountain of Charles Swanston, built in 1923/24 by Paris-based sculpture Ralph Stackpole, who also created the...
This 1938 aerial view of Grant Union High School shows campus buildings, including an under-construction Grant Stadium in the upper, right corner. Nearly all of the structures on the Grant campus came courtesy of the Works Progress Administration...
The Sacramento Junior College football team poses for this 1928 photograph within the newly-completed, 25,000-seat Sacramento Stadium. The team's 1928 season was a charmed one with a 8-1 record and California state junior college championship. ...
The Sacramento Junior College football team of 1949 is captured in this photograph, taken the same year and with the exterior of Hughes Stadium in the background. Head Coach Larry Rouble is seventh from the left, in the second row, and third from...
Aerial view of Sacramento High School campus, 1926. The actual address of the school was 2315 Thirty-fourth Street. The stadium and playing fields lie just beyond the campus. In the upper center of the photograph are the outskirts of the City...
In this June 23, 1948, photograph, of members of the Capital City Motorcycle Club was taken in front of their clubhouse at 2414 Thirteenth Street. Displayed on the front wall of the clubhouse is a banner reading, "SAFETY AWARD - AMERICAN...
An October 26, 1931 photograph shows the façade of the Panama Pottery factory at 4421 Twenty-Fourth Street, nearly three blocks south of Sacramento Stadium and Sacramento Junior College. Three years earlier, the business a support structure due...
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,...
A segment of the "Gold Rush" village constructed near Southside Park in 1939 to host the Centennial Celebration of Sutter's Landing in Sacramento is the focus of this sepia-toned postcard printed from a real photograph. Huge festivals were held...
