This 1952 photograph shows Career Girl at 1027 K Street and the Crest Fashions at 1025 K Street. This unique nighttime photograph captures the glare of neon caught by smartly-dressed mannequins. A sign is shown promoting a half-price sale on...
Photograph, taken circa 1960, of J Street between Fourth and Fifth, showing Astor Rooms (404 J Street), Mike's Grocery (406 J Street), Fong Liquor Store (408 J Street), a closed down Genant Furniture Store (410 J Street) which used to be Cameron...
The Campbell Soup Company, located at Fourty-Third Street and Franklin Boulevard, has long been a fixture of Sacramento industry, opening in 1947. It closed in 2012, causing the loss of some 700 area jobs. The plant nearly closed in the 1990s,...
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...
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...
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...
Founded in 1876 by the Brothers of the Christian Schools at the southwest corner of Twelfth and K Streets, Christian Brothers School has held subsequent locations at Twenty-First and Broadway, and 4315 Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard. After a...
This March 7, 1941 photograph shows the entrance to Melgrims Millinery on 817 K Street. The store was opened in February 1933 at 1006 K Street under the leadership of Kansas native Mabelle Frank. Frank was a veteran of the retail industry, having...
Captured is a night scene of Benjamin & Rackerby Physicians Supplies, located at 1213 L Street. The store's display windows and interior reveal examination tables, a skeleton, surgical instruments and storage cabinets. Operated by Eugene Benjamin...
The preparation room of the Libby, McNeill and Libby cannery is shown prominently in this 1935 photograph, taken from the corner of Thirty-First Street and Stockton Boulevard. As of March 1929, Sacramento’s four canneries were employing over...
This 1949 photograph shows the Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church at 1350 Twenty-Fifth Street. Since 1944, Zion had been under the direction of Reverend Elmer Johnson. The congregation closed doors at the pictured location in the 1949/50 in favor...
This photograph of the Sacramento County Hospital's administrative building was taken on May 10, 1931. Beneath its brick shell, the was building was constructed with steel framing and reinforced concrete. Jutting from the left is one of six...
The Standard Furniture Company lines Eighth Street, between I and J Streets, in this circa 1940 photograph. Native New Yorker Edward Samoville founded the business in the 1939, eventually joining forces with the future owner of North...
Pictured on March 6, 1947, is Zukor’s, Incorporated, at 812 K Street. The nationwide women’s clothing chain opened its Sacramento location in the winter of 1930. Based in New York City, the company saw the Sacramento branch as the key...
This circa 1916 photograph shows the White Hospital’s nursing corps sitting on the building’s front steps. In existence between 1911 and 1924, and located at Twenty-Ninth and J Streets, the hospital classified its nurses into two groups: ...
