First floor tenants of the Hotel Ramona are shown in this 1960 photograph. They include the Ramona Barber Shop at 1009 Sixth Street and Wong's Cafe at 1011 Sixth Street. A 7-Up delivery truck is parked at the curb. The Sixth Street entrance to...
A smiling man and infant pose for this circa 1925 photograph, inside the open cab of a period Peerless Ice Cream delivery truck. Advertising covers the truck, one slogan reading “Peerless Ice Cream, Gives Health and Delight.” Peerless was one...
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 1928 photograph shows the busy loading area of the Crystal Ice and Cold Storage Company at 1618 and 1620 R Street. Two trucks are posed for delivery in front of Southern Pacific railroad spurs. Built in 1921/22 for 100,000 dollars, the...
In this circa 1928 photograph, a throng of "Sacramento Bee" paper boys or "newsies" stand in front of the Sacramento Abstract and Title building at 701 K Street. During the 1920s and 30s, being a paper boy for the Bee was quite sought after....
This photograph of the Fulton Market Savings Center was taken on June 27, 1936. The market was located at 2734 Y Street, and part of a Sacramento area chain of Fulton stores that grew to five as the 1930s came to an end. The principle owners of...
This April 1962 photograph shows the west end of the reading room at the Sacramento Central Library at 828 I Street. It was located on the second floor, along with a reference room, delivery and open stacks for 20,000 volumes. The first floor...
This photograph of the Palace Hotel Building including Hunter's Drug Company (201 J Street), Copa De Oro Restaurant (925 Second Street), Zakar Shoe Repair (931 Second Street) was taken circa 1960. Pedestrians trod the sidewalks, two men look at a...
This 1955 photograph reveals the north side of the Western Warehouse Company at 100 through 114 K Street. The picture was taken from an ally on the north side of K Street, between Front and Second Streets. Several cars, including an older...
Taken in March 1934, this photograph shows the Shepard Lines' "Harpoon," moored along the Sacramento River. The ship was filled with a cargo of finished lumber, bound for Asia. Piloted by the "Delta Queen" steamer's Captain William Cooley, the...
This circa 1955 photograph shows the interior of the filter control gallery at Sacramento's water filtration plant. It was equipped with sixteen filters, each accommodating a normal capacity of four million gallons of water a day. Filters...
Pictured on October 13, 1930, is the Collis P. Huntington, also known as Engine Number One, and first locmotive purchased by the Southern Pacific Railroad. Posing before the engine are, left to right, G.A. Knoblaugh, erecting shop foreman, Henry...
This circa 1900 photograph shows a man, vintner James Frasinetti, delivering barrels of wine. He is doing so with a wagon, pulled by two horses. A native of Italy, Frasinetti founded his self-styled winery in 1897. It covered 400 acres of land...
Taken from Tenth Street, between L and N Streets, this September 9, 1895, photograph reveals an illuminated California State Capitol building. The building and surrounding trees are dressed in lights while a sign declaring the greatness of the...
Gazing eastward, down K Street, is the camera that captured this photograph, taken on the evening of September 9, 1895. In the middle of frame is a pavilion of light, sitting over the intersection of Eighth and K Streets. It was estimated...
Pictured in 1942 is Mather Field's flightline, filled with several North American T-6 Texan trainers. Mather received its first delivery of Texans from North American's Inglewood, California, plant in October 1941. Established as a flight school...
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...
