The first local high school built north of the American River was a first in many ways, the result of a need for a school district to educate the far-flung school-age children in the area combined with the practical need for a civic center to bring...
A canny businessman and idealistic philanthropist, David Lubin and his brother-in-law Harris Weinstock made Weinstock-Lubin the Sacramento area’s best-known and most popular mercantile establishment for over a century. By the time of his death in...
San Juan Union High School is located at 7551 Greenback Lane in Citrus Heights, California. Founded in 1913, it stands as Sacramento County’s second oldest high school behind that of Sacramento High School, established in 1856. The school’s...
Pictured here in 1935, the auto top and upholstery business of Fred P. Fritz shared 1615 J Street with William H. Bartlett's Automobile Body Work, Auto Painting, Fender and Body Repair Shop. The employees of both enterprises, along with two...
C.K. McClatchy Senior High School is located at 3066 Freeport Boulevard in Sacramento, California. Named after “Sacramento Bee” newspaper editor and owner Charles Kenny McClatchy, the school was built in 1937 by way of Public Works...
The first local high school built north of the American River was a first in many ways, the result of a need for a school district to educate the far-flung school-age children in the area combined with the practical need for a civic center to bring...
Growing children with no available outlet for further education was incentive enough for sixteen elementary school districts to establish California’s first union high school in Elk Grove. The initial building was housed in what is now Old Town...
San Juan Union High School is located at 7551 Greenback Lane in Citrus Heights, California. Founded in 1913, it stands as Sacramento County’s second oldest high school behind that of Sacramento High School, established in 1856. The school’s...
C.K. McClatchy Senior High School is located at 3066 Freeport Boulevard in Sacramento, California. Named after “Sacramento Bee” newspaper editor and owner Charles Kenny McClatchy, the school was built in 1937 by way of Public Works...
C.K. McClatchy Senior High School is located at 3066 Freeport Boulevard in Sacramento, California. Named after “Sacramento Bee” newspaper editor and owner Charles Kenny McClatchy, the school was built in 1937 by way of Public Works...
San Juan Union High School is located at 7551 Greenback Lane in Citrus Heights, California. Founded in 1913, it stands as Sacramento County’s second oldest high school behind that of Sacramento High School, established in 1856. The school’s...
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...
Boyle Brothers Cleaners, located at 1730 Broadway, is pictured here in 1949. The business was founded by brothers Edwin and Calvert Boyle, just prior to World War I. Tragedy hit the family in the spring of 1935 when Calvert disappeared. His body...
Taken on October 26, 1928, in the State Library's Circulation Room, this Edward Field Sanford, Jr., sculpture symbolizes ""Wisdom."" The work was done in green bronze and Sanford was quoted in the 1939 Sacramento Bee Guide Book as saying that for...
The banks of Southside Park's lake are captured in this 1929 photograph. It took nearly two decades for fencing to find its way to the lakeside. Prior to this, a handful of children fell victim to drowning. The first to do so was Bobbie Whittaker,...
Pictured January 2, 1900, school children and their teacher stand in front of Edward Kelley School at 3336 Bradshaw Road. As of 2010, the two-room structure is the oldest standing educational institution in Sacramento County. Originally opened in...
In this photograph, taken on September 12, 1932, at Grant Union High School, the student body poses around the flagpole, girls at the left and boys to the right. In front of them sit seven men, and numerous other people stand under the eves of the...
Members of the Sacramento’s Business and Professional Women’s Club look toward the camera in this 1958 photograph. Those pictured are attending a convention and are delegates representing California’s BPWC Region Three. The BPWC’s...
This circa 1920 photograph shows a posing Edna Becsey. She sits on a stool, looking across her body at the camera and wearing a velvet hat and dress. Becsey, a second generation Sacramentan, was born in June 1889. She lived in Sacramento her...
Shown in circa 1930 is McKinley Park's Kiesel Lake. The body of water was named by Frederick William Kiesel in 1912 to honor his son, Frederick Birdsall Kiesel, who died as an infant. Located on the southwest quadrant of the park, Lake Kiesel is...
