This circa 1937 postcard shows Sacramento's U.S. Post Office and Federal Building, as seen between two elms and from Plaza Park at Ninth and I Streets. The Post Office was built in 1933 and the park, bordered by I and J Streets and Ninth and Tenth...
Sacramento's U.S. Post Office and Federal Building at 801 I Street is shown in this postcard. When complete, nearly every Federal activity in the Sacramento Valley - representing 31 different Federal agenices - was based in one spot. Prior to...
Ready for the September 1907 National Irrigation Congress is Weinstock, Lubin and Company, at the corner of Fourth and K Streets. Although a majority of activities were held at the Pavilion at Fifteenth and M Streets, the congress proved both a...
"An air-conditioned motor hotel of distinction...opposite main gate of State Fair Grounds..." is part of the promotion printed on the back of this postcard touting the San Carlos Court Motor Hotel at 2830 Stockton Boulevard. One and one-half blocks...
Photographed in 1930, this U.S. Army Corps of Engineers snag boat is from the Rio Vista Marine facility. The Facility was established circa 1923 and was used by Army Corps of Engineers until 1952, at which time it became a boat storage facility...
Photograph taken August, 1942, of the quality control laboratory at Bercut-Richards Packing Company. An unidentified man and woman wearing laboratory coats and peering into microscopes occupy a table beneath rows of beakers, cannisters, bottles...
The U.S. Post Office and Federal Building, at 801 I Street, is the focus of this circa 1937 postcard. Although opened in November 1933, the building was without interior walls. According to "age-old custom," the Federal Government did not allow...
As seen in circa 1940 from the southwest corner of Eight and I Streets is the U.S. Post Office and Federal Building at 801 I Street. To the far right of the postcard is Sacramento City Hall at 915 I Street.
Offering deluxe rooms for $2.00, the Sacramento Motel on U.S. Highway 40 and 99 E in North Sacramento was similar to dozens of locally owned and run motels and auto courts in the Sacramento Valley. Before the rise of freeways that bypassed the...
This 1965 postcard shows the Valley Hi resting at 5321 Stockton Boulevard. Printed on the back of the postcard is as follows: "100 new units...1 mile South California State Fair Grounds...Uncle John's Pancake House...Business Route U.S. Highway...
Pictured is the California State Automobile Association building as it sat on November 23, 1942, at the corner of Seventeenth and L Streets. Just six years earlier, thieves broke into the building and took the organization's safe which contained...
In this 1926 photograph, one of William Land Park’s two duck ponds – originally part of primeval floodplain sloughs – rests amidst several recently planted trees. Between 1922 and 1927, more than 3,000 trees and 5,000 shrubs were planted in...
The Ritz Motel at 2228 Auburn Boulevard, also known at the U.S. Route 40, was one of many lodges - the Rolling Green, Town and Country and Pacific - that lined the pre-U.S. 80 stretch between Sacramento and Reno. With the advent of the super...
The intersection of Third and K Streets is revealed in this circa 1960 photograph. The Club Café Tavern at 231 K Street is prominent while, to the left of it, is the U.S. Loan Office at 229 K Street.
Western Hotel (215 K Street), 223 Club (tavern) (223 K Street), Palm Loan Office (pawnbrokers) (225 K Street), Diamond Cafe (227 K Street), and the U.S. Loan Office (229 K Street) are shown in this circa 1960 photo.
Numerous cars are parked at the curb in this J Street view. The Welcome Hotel at 221 J is an historic building, erected in October of 1855 by Milton S. Latham, a pioneer attorney for Sacramento and El Dorado Counties. Latham became a Congressman...
