Listed as “one of the fist important commercial wineries in the city of Sacramento, The Eberhardt & Lachman Winery, which would be later named the California Winery, was built in 1871 by a San Francisco wine house. The brick building was...
This March 13, 1950, photograph shows the water pumping station for Sacramento’s water filtration plant. Located just north of the city, and constructed in 1924, the pump was designed to slowly take water in by gravity, transferring it then to...
This circa 1927 photograph shows the Sacramento water purification and filtration station's sedimentation basin. By late 1926, the plant was pumping some 823 million gallons of water into the city's mains, accounting for a per capita daily usage...
Pictured in circa 1900, at the northeast corner of Twelfth and ""H"" Streets, is the City Brewery. It was established in 1856 by German expatriates Wilhelm Borchers and Benedict Hilbert. The two-story structure was made of brick, rested on a lot...
This December 10, 1940, photograph reveals the storefront and staff of the Roma Wine Company, a wholesale liquor dealer, located at 1311 I Street. At the time the photograph was taken, Sacramento County was producing upwards to 3, 000, 000 gallons...
This circa 1930 photograph shows the fountain in front of the Sacramento Filtration Plant. Built in 1923/24 under the design of Henry D. Dewell, the structure was the first water filtration complex west of the Rocky Mountains. Its design called...
This circa 1927 photograph shows water going through the process of being purified at the Sacramento Filtration Plant. In 1928, the plant went through a 100,000 dollar repair campaign to fix the shifting of floors within the pictured sedimentation...
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...
This circa 1930 photograph captures a Peerless Ice Cream Company Truck parked in front of a Sacramento-area park. Contact and advertising information covers much of the vehicle. The phrases “East Peerless Ice Cream” and “Its Flavor Means...
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 arrival of the Sisters of Mercy from San Francisco in 1857 began a tradition of education that served Sacramento for over a century. Commercial and traditional subjects along with lessons in musical instruments were the courses taught at St....
The arrival of the Sisters of Mercy from San Francisco in 1857 began a tradition of education that served Sacramento for over a century. Commercial and traditional subjects along with lessons in musical instruments were the courses taught at St....
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