This circa 1925 photograph shows the Front Street side of the Crane Company Plumbing Supplies warehouse located at Front and M Streets. The nationwide company was established in Chicago in 1910 with Sacramento becoming a distribution point in...
This April 24, 1909, photograph captures activity on the M Street Bridge during the celebration of Sacramento’s fiftieth anniversary. The picture was taken from the west side or West Sacramento side of the bridge, looking east. In the distance,...
Pictured in circa 1945 is a bustling scene before the River Lines office and receiving center at 1300 Front Street, with the twin spires of the Tower Bridge in the background. The company was primary in the transport of material and food stuffs...
This photograph of Murf's Market at 1600 Broadway was taken on January 18, 1944. “Murf” was Albert J. Murphy, a Nebraska native and butcher who would eventually align his business with the Inks brothers and their various Cardinal grocery...
Pictured is the California Pine Box Distributors warehouse as it sat on December 10, 1938. Located at 1401 Front Street, on the eve of the Great Depression, the company was one of four boxers and distributors in the city, which collectively were...
The front of the nave of the Westminster Presbyterian Church at Thirteenth and N Streets is visible in this June 16, 1928, photograph. Below the centered tapestry sits the church’s choir loft and 15,000 dollar pipe organ, a four manual echo...
This 1937 photograph captures the operating office of River Lines, Incorporated at 1300 Front Street. After being established in 1932 as consolidation of several waterfront carriers, River Lines suffered a series of strikes throughout the 1930s. ...
Pictured here, in circa 1916, is a group of nurses standing in front of the White Hospital at the northeast corner of Twenty-Ninth and J Streets. Pictured, in no particular order, are Ella Peacock, Alma Herndon, Ida Farrell, Elizabeth Hall, Martha...
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: ...
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...
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...
This 1960 photograph shows the Union Iron Works at 1415 Front Street. The business was founded in 1860, but was purchased by its highest-profile owner, Otto F. Link, in 1940. The Auburn-native went to work for Union in 1925, eventually working...
A street scene of a single brick building facing Fourth Street. In raised letters across the front of the decorative facade is "Louie Fong & Fong Assn" (916 Fourth Street). The street level windows along the front of the building are enclosed...
This street scene shows a clear view of the store front location of Kuo Min Tang, the Chinese Women's New Life Association. The front door is emblazoned with a sun design emblem (for the Kuu Min Tang, a Chinese Nationalist Political Party) and a...
This 1960 corner view of I Street at Seventh Street depicts the Emergency Bail Bond Service (630 I Street). A man is enjoying the sun on a second floor balcony of the building where there are rooms for rent. To the left of this building on...
Two vehicles are parked at the curb in front of a large, brick, two story building. The building has Asian architectural elements on the roof and facade. At ground level is the S.P. Depot Market (310 I Street) with plate glass store front and...
This photograph from 1960 captures street front views of Dick's Check Room (204 I Street), hallmarked by two sets of double doors as an entrance, with signs on the doors reading: "baggage checked 50 cents per month". To the left in the photograph...
A few pedestrians stroll along the sidewalk in front of the buildings shown in this 1960s J Street scene. Storefronts include the Blue Front Grocery (502 J Street), Peniel Mission (506 J Street), Stevens Hotel (510 J Street), and Ansonia Hotel...
