Centered at the junction of the California Central rails and the Central Pacific Railway and named for the abundant wildflowers in the area, the town of Roseville formed a school district in 1869 but had no schoolhouse of its own until 1872. A...
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...
The arrival of the Sisters of Mercy from San Francisco in 1857 began a tradition of education that served Sacramento for over a century. Commercial and traditional subjects along with lessons in musical instruments were the courses taught at St....
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...
The entrance to the Sacramento "Shopping News-Times," at 3301 Broadway, appears in this 1960 photograph. The business started publishing in the mid-1930s under the guidance of Alfred Perry and Lon Morgan. In the early 1950s, the typographical duo...
Here is a 1949 aerial photograph of Setzer Forest Products, a box manufacturer, located at 2570 through 2610 Third Street. Established in 1923, the business -- at the time this photograph was taken -- was employing upwards of 170 people. The...
This 1860s view of the north side of J Street appears to have been taken from a balcony. In the center of the photo is a sign for the pharmacy of R. H. McDonald at 139 J Street. Construction takes place on the street below.
Thomas Calley Perkins, namesake of Perkins Station, appears in this 1865 photograph. A native of Marblehead, Massachusetts, it has been written that he walked to California in 1850. In the same year, he settled in Brighton, which had been located...
A weatherworn section of Fourth Street is shown in this 1955 photograph. Mary’s Confectionery and Fountain at 1202 Second Street appears to the left of the frame while George H Takahashi’s Optometry business at 1200 Second Street sits to the...
Pictured in circa 1960, at 1215 Third Streetm is the Coffee Cup Restaurant. A Coca Cola sign is mounted over the entrance to the cafe. An empty store front with a torn awning appears next door. A painted advertisement for Henry's Grocery can be...
This photograph shows the front of several buildings along Fourth Street, circa 1960. Included are Mary's Fountain Confectionary (1202 Fourth Street), which appears to have a man peering in through the door glass, a stairwell that leads to rented...
Seen from the street, this building, which appears well maintained, has four street level entrances. The entrance at the left is Lim Yuen Caf (925 Third Street). It has a tidy awning over the doorway and Chinese characters written on the window. ...
Shown here are two brick buildings, one of which houses the Rubber Stamp Company (620 I Street) and the other houses the Sacramento County Agricultural Commissioner & Sealer of Weights and Measures (622 I Street), Capital Credit and Adjustment...
This circa 1960 photograph features a fenced vacant lot with barbed wire on the top of a corrugated metal fence. The Causeway Garage is identified by a faded, painted sign on the bricks over a weathered wooden door. There is a large hole in the...
This circa 1960 photograph captures the southwestern corner of Third and I Streets. From left to right, the spaces at 230 and 228 I Street are vacant while Sun On Chong Oriental Goods appears to the far right of the frame at 226 I Street.
This photograph was taken from the east side of the intersection of Tenth and K Streets, looking west, in circa 1975. In the left foreground at 930 K Street is the United California Bank. The structure was built in 1962 by the Contracting...
Nine members of The Flying Dumbbells, Intramural Touch Football Champions in 1939. The team won all eight of its games. S.J.C. appears on the photo, which may stand for Sacramento Junior College. This photograph was taken on November 18, 1939.
Named for early California philanthropist and the mother of newspaper magnate William Randolph Heart, Phoebe Hearst Elementary School appears in 1955 at 1410 Sixtieth Street. The school was built a year earlier, on the one-hundredth anniversary of...
This linen-finished postcard bears a color-tinted image of the Pacific Motel, one of dozens of tidy wing units or individual cottages frequented by travelers in the Sacramento Valley. The following description appears on the back of this post World...
This corner view of the Hotel Sacramento is dated the same year as the "New" hotel opened (1909) and may depict the grand opening. The top floor of the building is decorated in greenery and automobiles, pedestrians and streetcars all converge in...
