This 1945 photograph shows employees standing before the receiving door of the California Chemical Company at 217-235 Birch Avenue in North Sacramento. The building is inscribed with the words "Manufacturing Chemists." Edward Swan opened the...
The façade of the Westminster Presbyterian Church at Thirteenth and N Streets is illuminated by the sun in this June 18, 1928, photograph. Constructed by Campbell Construction in 1926/27 for 350,000 dollars, the church was designed to be...
This 1960 photograph shows State Office Building Number One's frieze and pediment. Crafted by New York City artist Edward Field Sanford, the building's section symbolizes ""The Gift of the World to California"" with the frieze inscribed with the...
Taken in 1998, this wrought iron gate depicts two lambs lying under a weeping willow. It is inscribed with the name "Z. Gardner" with a date of 1863. The gate is located at Sacramento's Old City Cemetery at 1000 Broadway.
This aerial view features a biplane whose pilot waves to the photographer while two men lay horizontal, suspended over the wings. The grainy photograph is inscribed with the words "Thrash & Herzog, Sacramento, California, 1923."
Shown on December 5, 1926, are the winner and runner-up of the City Women's Golf Championship. As inscribed on the photograph, the winner, Mrs. Webster, stands to the right, and the runner up, Mrs. Canieron, is at the left.
This 1920 portrait shows a women's basketball team. The initials E.P.O.R. are inscribed on a basketball held by a young woman seated on a chair in the center of the portrait.
This May 1939 photograph captures several flag-waving riders, all of whom are part of the May 1939 World's Fair Rodeo Parade. They make their way easterly, down K Street. A lead rider holds a flag inscribed with the words "World's Fair Rodeo...
This circa 1900 photograph displays seven of eight participants in a June 27, 1893, jailbreak at Folsom State Prison in Folsom, California. The eighth player was ex-Folsom convict Bill Fredericks who vowed to break several of his prison mates...
Taken from Tenth Street, between L and N Streets, this September 9, 1895, photograph reveals an illuminated California State Capitol building. The building and surrounding trees are dressed in lights while a sign declaring the greatness of the...
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 1933 postcard depicts a gilded California State Capitol building, as seen from the corner of Tenth and N Streets. The upper left corner shows the Great Seal of the State of California, inscribed with the state motto "Eureka," Greek for "I...
Tucked into the fog-shrouded, northwest corner of Sacramento's Old City Cemetery, at Tenth Street and Broadway, is the E.B. Crocker family monument. It contains the remains of Edwin and Margaret Crocker and their daughter, Amy. Just above their...
The floral splendor of the grounds of the Memorial Auditorium, located at Sixteenth and J streets, is captured in this circa 1930 postcard. Built in 1926 as a memorial to those Americans who died in defense of the nation, inscribed on the...
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...
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