This circa 1905 postcard shows the E.B. Crocker Art Gallery, located at Second and O streets. Opened to the public in 1873 and bequethed to the city of Sacramento and California Museum Association in 1885, one of the first tasks of the...
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...
This 1929 photograph shows the pristine tables and stacks of the new California State Law Library within the Library and Courts Building at 914 Capitol Avenue. It was renamed the Witkin State Law Library in 1998, in honor of Bernard E. Witkin, the...
Members of Sacramento’s beverage industry pose to promote the collection of scrap to help the war effort in this July 1, 1943, photograph. The salvage of scrap was a nationwide effort, seeking excess metals and rubber from the public and...
This February 1943 photograph, as taken from the stage, shows the auditorium and projection area of the Colonial Theater at 3522 Stockton Boulevard. The 850-seat, 10-employee venue opened in June 1940 and was fitted with an air cooling system and...
Photograph, taken in 1960, of the Sacramento Bail Bond Agency or Sacramento Insurance & Bond Agency (600 I Street), Robinson Hotel (602 I Street), Sacramento Collection Service Incorporated (606 I Street, on the southeast corner), and Joe Cotton...
A collection of five photos of the K Street Mall animals in the Macy's Plaza taken in May of 1974. The animals were removed prior to Light Rail's installation.
A collection of five photos of the K Street Mall animals in the Macy's Plaza taken in May of 1974. The animals were removed prior to Light Rail's installation.
A collection of five photos of the K Street Mall animals in the Macy's Plaza taken in May of 1974. The animals were removed prior to Light Rail's installation.
A collection of five photos of the K Street Mall animals in the Macy's Plaza taken in May of 1974. The animals were removed prior to Light Rail's installation.
Captured in circa 1869 is a group of young Sacramento women playing croquet. As early as 1867, advertisements could be found in local papers promoting the "Beautiful and Fascinating Game of Field Croquet." The photograph is labeled "Behrman's...
L Street circa 1865 is depicted with unpaved streets and wooden sidewalks. The shops are not easily identified although the words "Drugs," "Oils," "Paints," and, faintly, "Merchants Hotel" can be seen on a building on the right. To the left, a...
This 1937 photograph reveals a room within Sutter's Fort, located at Twenty-Seventh and L Streets. Displayed are artifacts true to the installation's historic origins: the furniture and woodwook is rough hewn, a rack on the wall displays a...
Pictured in circa 1935, at 931 Broadway, is a support structure for the Bell Conservatory Company, a longstanding spot for horticultural research and a supplier of floral goods in Sacramento, dating back to 1878. Covering six acres, the business...
This circa 1995 postcard shows the Crocker Art Gallery at Second and O streets. The pictured section of the gallery was constructed in 1872, housing an initial collection of 700 items. Its construction proved a boon for local contractors,...
This postcard of "California's Magnificent Capitol" has a divided back and space for a one cent stamp as well as informative text underneath the impressive photograph rendered for the burgeoning postcard trade prior to the First World War. The...
This circa 1925 photograph provides a leaf-shrouded view of Ninth Street, as seen from between H and I Streets, looking southerly. To the immediate right, are the Pythian Castle at 830 Ninth Street. To the left of that is the newly opened...
