Founded in 1876 by the Brothers of the Christian Schools at the southwest corner of Twelfth and K Streets, Christian Brothers School has held subsequent locations at Twenty-First and Broadway, and 4315 Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard. After a...
This January 1, 1900, photograph looks northerly from the dome of the California State Capitol building toward the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament at Eleventh and K Streets. The steeple on the immediate right of the photograph is that of the...
Sacramento pedestrians brave a slushy southwest corner of Ninth and K Streets in this March 14, 1942, photograph. The surprise weather brought out the eccentric in Capital citizens: from skiing down K Street to the hurling of snowballs at passing...
Pictured in 1863 is Front Street, near its intersection with K and L Streets. In the immediate foreground, with a train stopped at its side, is the Sacramento Valley Railroad depot; to the right of that is the freight depot of the Central Pacific...
This sidewalk photograph, along Tenth Street, between N Street and Capitol Avenue, was taken in circa 1933. The most immediate structure to the left is Library and Courts Building, while visible in the distance is the Classical-style facade of...
Taken in circa 1975, this photograph captures a view of the K Street Mall, looking east from the intersection Twelfth and K Streets. To the left of the frame are the venerable McCurry's Photography at 1131 K Street and Lauter and Son's Gifts. To...
Photograph taken circa 1955 of the exterior of radio station KFBK, located at 708 I Street. KFBK was licensed to McClatchy Broadcasting in 1925 when it was powered by a one hundred watt transmitter and the Sacramento Bee became the first newspaper...
This September 9, 1895, photograph captures the gleam of the Grand Electric Carnival on K Street, between Eighth and Ninth Streets. Strings of lights hang from poles and crisscross K Street. The event was held to celebrate the unprecedented long...
This September 1895 photograph reveals a daytime look at various adornments for Sacramento’s Grand Electric Carnival, held to celebrate the July 1895 transmission of hydroelectric power from Folsom to Sacramento’s Station A on Sixth and H...
This early twentieth-century postcard shows Plaza Park as viewed from the southeast. In the immediate foreground and under cover is a drinking fountain. To the left of that is the park's band stand and a tremendous draw from summertime concerts. ...
This postcard boasts a photograph as taken from the California State Capitol building's dome, looking west. In the immediate foreground, and completed in 1928, are buildings of the Capitol Extention, to the right the Library and Courts Building,...
Shown in circa 1950, at Twelfth and N streets are, in the center of the frame, the California State Department of Public Works building and, beyond that, the Department of Motor Vehicles building. Public Works and Motor Vehicles structures were...
This circa 1925 photograph provides a leaf-shrouded view of Ninth Street, as seen from between H and I Streets, looking southerly. To the immediate right, are the Pythian Castle at 830 Ninth Street. To the left of that is the newly opened...
This circa 1909 postcard shows K Street, looking west, between Sixth and Seventh streets. The grayish building to the left is the Masonic Temple. The brownish sandstone structure before that is John Breuner's Furniture. To the immediate right in...
Shown in 1919 is the intersection of Ninth and K Streets. In the immediate foreground is the Independent Order of Odd Fellows Temple. Just beyond, and on the south side of K Street, is the Forum Building. In the background is the Siller Building...
Shown in circa 1908 is K Street, looking west from Tenth Street. To the immediate left of the frame is William Land's State House Hotel. Land purchased the State House in 1891, operating until placing into the same spot his own Hotel Land in...
This circa 1915 postcard shows Tenth Street as viewed -- looking north -- from its intersection with K Street. To the immediate right in the Physicians Building at 1005 K Street while, in the distance, is Plaza Park at Tenth and J Streets.
Shown in circa 1900 is K Street, looking west from Ninth Street toward the Post Office and Federal building at Seventh and K streets. In the immediate foreground, and to the right, is the Hale Block, where Hale Brothers' Department Store and the...
Shown in 1998 is a light rail train making its way toward the intersection of Seventh and K streets. The train's terminus is the Butterfield Station, which had been completed the same year this photograph was taken. The structure in the...
This cargo ship is shown docked at the Port of Sacramento in this circa 1965 postcard. Completed just two years earlier, in 1963, the port was the terminus of a deep water channel that stretched southwesterly 43 miles to Suisun Bay, and its...
