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...
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...
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 1924 photograph shows the Frederick Foto Service resting at 916 Seventh Street. It was founded by Harley W. Frederick shortly after his return from Europe and the First World War. He apprenticed for a career in photography with Sacramento's...
The First Christian Church sits at 2701 N Street in this circa 1924 photograph. The Romanesque structure was built in 1911 for a cost of 30,000 dollars. The previous church – located at Sixteenth and L Streets – was burned down during the...
Pictured in circa 1910 is the Weinstock, Lubin and Company department store at 400 K Street. The structure replaced the previous Weinstocks building, located on the same spot. What the "Sacramento Bee" had called "The Magnificent White Building...
The photograph is dominated by the Duke's Men's Wear sign painted on the curved facade of the building at 214 K Street. Automobiles are parked along the curb in front of the businesses: Star Hotel (218 K Street), Lafayette Card Room (218 K...
Shown in 1960 is a photograph of the blighted south side of Merchant Street between Fifth and Sixth Streets. Central to the photograph and behind a tree is the abandoned Inland Press building at 508 through 510 Merchant Street. In the distance is...
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...
Photograph circa 1949 of the back of the Sacramento County Courthouse featuring sheriffs posing with their vehicles. Construction on the first county courthouse at Seventh Street and I began in 1850 and the building opened late in 1851, only to be...
A front view of the Sacramento County Hospital located at 2221 Stockton Boulevard, this picture was taken ca. 1955. Sacramento County Hospital opened in 1871, and it burned down on October 5, 1879. It was rebuilt and completed in July of 1879. By...
This digital image of a burned out Leroy’s Jewelers was taken on the evening of December 29, 2003. The building caught fire in May 2000, exacting over 150,000 dollars in damage and drawing a three alarm response of over 45 firefighters. Up to...
This August 11, 1964, photograph shows a fire-gutted home at 229 and 231 O Street. The blackened and hollowed structure is overgrown with trees, bushes and grass. Vacant at the time of the fire, the Victorian-style home was built prior 1895. To...
The first Sacramento County Courthouse at the corner of Seventh and I Streets was completed in time for Christmas in 1851. The structure served the California State Legislature during 1852 and 1854 before it burned to the ground during a fire that...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
