This 1941 photograph shows both the interior and exterior of the 400-seat chapel at Mather Field. Built the same year that this photograph was taken, the structure had a portable altar, pulpit and lectern, so as to accomodate Mather's various...
This photograph of the Pacific Gas and Electric Company building at 1100 K Street was taken on July 12, 1941. Set on the southeast corner of Eleventh and K Streets, the structure was built in 1912/13 as an administrative hub. It was made of...
Front exterior view of the office of Pacific Telephone & Telegraph/American Telephone & Telegraph at 1414 K Street. Included in the view is Reo Motors Used Cars at 1400 K Street.
Pictured on May 5, 1945, is the Capital National Bank, located at 700 J Street. Covering an 80 by 87 foot frontage, the building’s exterior was composed of California granite and with window frames of bronze. The eight-ton girders used to...
This 1947 photograph shows an exterior view of the California Chemical Company at 217through 235 Birch Avenue in North Sacramento. The maker of industrial chemicals also operated branches in Reno and Fresno. In 1961, the company moved to...
This May 14, 1941, photograph shows the facade of Gensler-Lee Jewelers at 730 K Street. Founded by Ralph C. Lee and G.J. Gensler in 1901 and based in San Francisco, the company's Sacramento store moved to the pictured location just days prior. ...
Shown on May 28, 1942, is the Oak Park Methodist Episcopal Church, at the corner of Thirty-Sixth Street and Sacramento Boulevard. Under the direction of Oakland-based architect Wilson J. Wythe, the exterior of the structure was made of hollow...
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...
Taken on April 29, 1947, this photograph shows the exterior of the Del Paso Theater, located at 2122 Del Paso Boulevard in North Sacramento. Cars are parked beneath the marquee. The venue was built in 1926 for 125,000 dollars, complete with a...
The California State Library and Courts Building and its Sierra white granite exterior shines in this 1929 photograph. Completed just a year earlier, the building was constructed with five floors, including a basement, and designed to provide...
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...
The entrance to the Masonic Temple at 1123 J Street is shown in this 1925 photograph. Flanking the doorway are two penitent Knights Templar. Between the two, and above the doorway, is an arch of impish terra cotta cherubim. Constructed between...
A view of the exterior of the The Crane Company Supplies building. The Crane Company dealt in pipe, valves, fittings, pumps and heating and plumbing supplies from their headquarters at Front and "M" Streets from about 1910 to 1960, when they moved...
Photographed in circa 1960, this brick building houses the Diamond Hotel at 916 Third Street and, at ground level, the Golden Market at 916 Third Street and the Quong Sing Chong Grocery at 922 Third Street. On the alley side of the building, large...
This 1961 photograph takes in three venerable examples of mid-to-late nineteenth century Sacramento architecture; left to right, the Golden Eagle Hotel, built between 1853 and 1860, the Post Office, built between 1890 and 1894, and the Ochsner...
Captured sometime in mid 1970s from the vantage point of Seventh Street, between I and J Streets, is the Security National Bank at 631 J Street and the Crocker Citizens National Bank at 700 J Street. In the middle of the frame, with its red brick...
The Sacramento Junior College football team of 1949 is captured in this photograph, taken the same year and with the exterior of Hughes Stadium in the background. Head Coach Larry Rouble is seventh from the left, in the second row, and third from...
The corner of Fourteenth and N Streets is dominated by the large multi-family dwelling shown here in a photograph taken circa 1925. The brick and rough stone entrance, corner window nooks and decorative support beams contrast with the rest of the...
This interior view of the river boat Delta King depicts rows of tables with attached benches and a water fountain in one long cabin area. Exterior light flows in from the right of the photograph, but the room is unoccupied. This photograph was...
