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...
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...
The storefront of the Remington Rand Company at 1107 J Street is shown in this 1960 photograph. The business was formed during the summer of 1927 as a producer of office equipment. Its location would be on the floor level of the Elks Building for...
Pictured in 1946 are support facilities of Lester Motors Ford at 900 Thirteenth Street. The photograph was taken from 1300 I Street, where the business’s showroom was located. This location formed the culmination of Lester’s business...
This circa 1925 photograph shows a dilapidated Oak Park Methodist Episcopal Church at Thirty Fourth Street, between Fourth Avenue and Y Street. The congregation was formed in 1895 under the direction of Reverend F.A. Morrow, meeting at Oak...
This 1942 photograph shows the William Land Park rose garden, located in the southwestern section of the park, near the zoo. At the time of the photograph, it contained over 90 different varieties of roses. The pool, visible in the distant center...
Fritz Kaminsky, Sacramento City Police Chief, is pictured in this 1952 portrait. A native of Sacramento, Kaminsky was first employed as a secretary to the chief of police on November 18, 1923. Through the years, however, he rose through the ranks...
An army of archers take aim in this 1930 photograph, shot at William Land Park. By the mid-1920s, Sacramento’s archery community had formed a club, consisting of over 50 members, and found venues for sport at Land, Curtis and McKinley parks. ...
Shown on Armistice Day, November 11, 1931, are the drum and bugle corps of Disabled American Veterans of the World War, Sacramento Post Number Six, and the DAV Women's Auxiliary, posing on the steps of the California State Capitol building. The...
The Knights of Pythias marching band moves itself along an L Street review stand in circa 1935. The band was formed in 1920 and was a frequent traveler to musical events statewide, including spots like Grass Valley, Yreka, and Santa Cruz, plus...
This 1911 photograph shows members of the Capital City Wheelmen, Sacramento's most enduring bicycling club. Formed on June 25, 1886, the organization engaged in standard "Club Runs," or country excursions, as well as competitive engagements with...
This July 4, 1906, photograph shows the Sunset Parlor, also known at Parlor number 26, of the Native Sons of the Golden West, making their way through downtown Sacramento. Participants wore whitewashed uniforms, including white flannel shirts. A...
This photograph, capturing the operations of the Perkins Gravel Company, located at 1846 Thirty-Seventh Street, was taken on October 27, 1941. Ready-mixed concrete, crushed rock, road rock, sand and gravel formed the purview of the company, a...
A Mercantile Library Association in Sacramento was discussed as early as June of 1850, and after a first attempt was foiled by fire a subscription service Library Association was formed in 1857 and housed at the corner of J and Fifth Streets. In...
