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 dated March 13, 1947, the vessel identified as the "Fort Sutter" (1912-1959). The old Sacramento/San Joaquin passenger riverboat Fort Sutter, still in its wartime gray, is shown moored at Three Mile Slough in the Sacramento/San Joaquin...
This 1939 postcard shows one of Captain John Sutter's offices, this one connected with his bedroom and kitchen, long the fort's western wall. Many believe this to be the very location where James W. Marshall, on the evening of January 28, 1848,...
Portrayed in circa 1950 is John Sutter's bedroom at Sutter's Fort, located at Twenty-Seventh and L Streets. Located just west of the main gate, it was part of three connecting rooms, including Sutter's office and kitchen.
This circa 1960 postcard shows John Sutter's Fort Sutter office, regaled with the national flag of his native Switzerland. Sutter's allusions to building a New Helvetia on the Pacific Coast are common throughout local geography and numerous...
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...
The nothwestern grounds of Sutter's Fort are captured in this April 1937 photograph. Along the western wall and written in well-trimmed planted beds are the words "Sutter Fort." Sutter's Fort is located at Twenty-Seventh and L Streets.
This postcard shows the crumbling central building at Sutter's Fort. When the fort was active, the depicted structure was frenzied with activity vital to the function of the compound, the business interests of the Sutter, and the morale of the...
As seen from L Street, spectators take in Sutter's Fort, part of the California State Parks system since 1947. Although United States and California State flags fly in the foreground, a Mexican flag hangs to the right of the frame. The tricolor...
California Middle School is located at 1600 Vallejo Way in Sacramento, California. Designed by Sacramento architecture luminary Harry Devine and built at a cost of $300,000, the structure opened in November 1933 with an enrollment of 738 pupils...
Taken in 1937, this photograh shows the southern entrance to Sutter's Fort. Flanked on either side of fan palms, the entramce is also guarded by a single canon. The gate sign reads "1839 Sutter's Fort." A California State Park since 1947, the...
This idyllic scene on the northern side of Sutter's Fort was captured in 1937. Visible are a pond, covered with water lilies, and a walkway where a wicker baby buggy and small child stand. To the right of that, a woman stands below a tree,...
Captured in 1955 is the entrance to Sutter's Fort. Two cannons stand sentinel over the venerable spot while a woman and two children exit the grounds. Sutter's Fort is located at Twenty-Seventh and L Streets.
Shown in this 1955 photograph, taken at Sutter's Fort, is the wedding dress, worn by Martha Jane Reed, a survivor of the infamous Donner Party. She married Frank Lewis, in Santa Cruz, California, on Christmas Day 1856. Sutter's Fort is located at...
This 1955 photograph captures Captain John Sutter's bedroom, located at Sutter's Fort. A California State Park since 1947, the fort can be found at the corner of Twenty-Seventh and L Streets.
An exhibit of the clothing worn by a sheriff in early Sacramento is the focus of this 1955 photograph at Sutter's Fort. Case also contains a hat, coat, glasses, and other miscellaneous items. Sutter's Fort is located at Twenty-Seventh and L...
This 1955 photograph reveals a display of Sutter's Fort printing equipment. A printing press and type set make up the bulk of the display. Sutter's Fort is located at Twenty-Seventh and L Streets.
Shown in circa 1885 is Sutter Fort's multi-purpose central building, just before restoration in 1890. Prior to rehabilitation, the central building was the only portion of the original fort left and was viewed to be the first vestige of the fort...
Shown in 1915 is Sutter's Fort, as viewed from the southeast. Cattle graze just outside the fort's northern wall. The card's inset shows the fort's central building. The annotation - "Sutter's Fort near Sacramento, Where Gold was First...
Visibile from the south, and across L Street, is Sutter's Fort. The main gate, as shown in the center of the postcard, was replaced by a more historically accurate one in 1991. It consisted of two massive, 15-foot-high redwood doors, and was...
