This class picture was taken on January 24, 1923, at Marshall School, at 2700 G Street. 1920s Sacramento saw a surge in its population. Taking account for the West Coast's major markets - Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and...
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...
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...
This September 5, 1946, photograph shows the Thomson-Diggs warehouse resting on the southwest corner of Third and R Streets. Founded in 1900, the business was a hardware wholesaler with an impressive geographic reach throughout California and...
This March 1942 photograph shows a recently modernized Globe Mills building at 1125 C Street. Its renovation, started in August 1941, came via the Federal Government's wartime plan to increase grain storage capacities and overcome nationwide...
This circa 1951 photograph shows the proposed deep water ship channel project, intended to connect Sacramento's Lake Washington to Suisun Bay. Prior to the 1963 completion of the channel, the transport of goods was done primarily through rail and...
The W.T. Grant Company’s location at 722 K Street Store is shown in this September 1, 1944, photograph. Grant came to Sacramento in 1932 in an effort to expand its 39 state empire. The store opened in 1933, but was flamed in December of 1936 to...
As early as 1927, and as evidenced in this photograph, Sacramento has long been the site of several urban forests. By February 1927, the Capital City contained more than 32,000 trees, half of which lived in residential sections of the central...
This circa 1975 photograph captures the Hotel Regis at 1106 Eleventh Street, and See's Candies at 1028 K Street. Through the Interwar period, the 60 room Regis gained a reputation as a family-oriented hotel. Sacramento's desire to increase the...
Resting at 2863 Thirty-Fifth Street in 1950 is the Anglo California Bank. The brick structure was built in 1918 for 10,000 dollars, replacing the bank’s previous wood frame building. Its new sign would read Citizens' Bank of Sacramento,...
Shown in 1924 is the newly constructed Sacramento High School, located at 2315 Thirty-Fourth Street. Dedicated in the same year, the school was part of a massive increase in public school construction during the early 1920s that saw no less than...
In this promotional postcard - touting the allure of the Sacramento Valley - a schoolboy is spanked by his teacher. Accordingly, from 1900 to 1910, Sacramento alone saw its population increase from 29,282 to 44,696.
A grain storage facility and grain silos with a submerged rice field in the foreground is the subject of this postcard. In 1901, with the failure of wheat crops, farmers began a hunt for a new crop. “The search for a new crop was to bring rice...
An account in “Sacramento County California” printed in 1911 describes Sacramento as a city being “Pushed forward by the tremendous pressure of the richest farming area in the world.” It goes on to describe the capital city as having three...
“Wheat farming dominated the life and economy of the Sacramento Valley from 1867 until 1893.” Acreage of wheat planted increase from 200,000 in 1866 to 400,000 in 1873, increasing to 1,000,000 in 1882. By 1865 the price paid for California...
With the 1901 failure of what crops, farmers began a hunt for a new crop. “The search for a new crop was to bring rice into the old wheat lands and rice transformed the economy of the mid-valley.” World War I brought about increased demand...
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...
