This linen-finished card postmarked 1943 features an aerial view of part of downtown Sacramento facing southwest. The printed description on the back of the card reads, "Shown in this picture are the Library and Courts Building, State Office...
In the years following World War II, Capitol Avenue was the focus of redevelopment efforts. When visitors entered the city from the west via the M Street Bridge, they had to drive through the middle of the west-end slums that lined both sides of...
In the years following World War II, Capitol Avenue was the focus of redevelopment efforts. When visitors entered the city from the west via the M Street Bridge, they had to drive through the middle of the west-end slums that lined both sides of...
This linen-finished card postmarked 1943 features an aerial view of part of downtown Sacramento facing southwest. The printed description on the back of the card reads, "Shown in this picture are the Library and Courts Building, State Office...
In 1975, a federal study of the quality of life in American cities placed Sacramento near the top, using economic indicators as well as an evaluation of social, political, educational and environmental well-being. This occurred, in large part to a...
The 1950s saw a period of population growth, increasing from 8,685 to an estimated 12,000. Sacramento, during that time, provided employment for 18,000 people with an annual payroll of approximately $90,000,000. The 40s and 50s also brought to...
A Sacramento skyline sprouted in the 1980’s and 1990’s. Along with a host of new state government buildings, city developers helped to build new office spaces for a growing downtown workforce as well as for cultural needs. The Renaissance...
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...
This 1927 aerial view, from the southeast side of the Capitol and Capitol Park, shows Sacramento's downtown area. In the middle of the frame is the Capitol building and, to the left of it, are the recently completed Capitol Extension buildings. The...
This photograph of the facade of the California State Capitol building was taken on August 27, 1932. The fountain in the foreground is located in the block holding the Capitol Extension buildings between 9th and 10th Streets and L and N Streets.
Taken on August 31, 1928, this photograph shows the granite facade the State of California Office Building Number One, located at 915 Capitol Avenue. The picture was shot from the northeast edge of the Library and Courts Building. The first of...
This is an aerial photograph, taken after 1930, of the California State Capitol and grounds. In the foreground are the twin Capitol Extension buildings, constructed in 1928: Office Building Number 1 to the left, and the Library and Courts Building...
This March 5, 1931, photograph of the west side of the dome of the California State Capitol building was taken from the grounds of the Capitol Extension buildings at Tenth Street and Capitol Avenue. Several period cars are parked on Tenth Street...
This 1897 photograph provides a northwesterly view of downtown Sacramento from the Capitol dome. Running horizontally at the bottom of the picture is Tenth Street between L and M Streets. The near steeple to the left of the photograph is that of...
This sidewalk photograph, along Tenth Street, between N Street and Capitol Avenue, was taken in circa 1933. The most immediate structure to the left is Library and Courts Building, while visible in the distance is the Classical-style facade of...
This photograph of the Sacramento City Manager’s office at City Hall at 915 I Street was taken in 1950. The window looks westerly to several buildings, including – left to right – the Hotel Californian at 800 I Street, the Labor Temple at...
This July 11, 1941, aerial view of Capitol Park and several State government office buildings comes from the southeast. In the late 1930s, California Governor Frank Merriman resolved to centralize all of the State's agencies in Sacramento. This,...
A lonely stretch of Front Street is captured in this 1959 photograph. The buildings represent the former homes of Ace Upholstery at 1021 Front Street, the Rooney Brothers Company at 1019 Front Street, and what is identified in the 1959 City...
Two women and a child walk past a part of town slated for change in this scene. The Berkshire Building is at the corner and automobiles are parked at the curb in front of the Roma, a tavern at 525 L Street in the center of this circa 1960...
The Hotel Savoy (422 J Street) sits wedged between a liquor store and a cash loaning operation, one of the lower level storefronts vacant. This 1960 photograph captures buildings that were a century old then, but the next few years would find all...
