This August 17, 1931, photograph shows Texas native Bert B. Elam's Texaco Gas Station as it sat at 3800 J Street. In 1935, Texaco had decided to make Sacramento its Northern California and Nevada headquarters and, by 1932, had set up storage...
Pictured is the California State Automobile Association building as it sat on November 23, 1942, at the corner of Seventeenth and L Streets. Just six years earlier, thieves broke into the building and took the organization's safe which contained...
This warehouse view of the California Pet Foods Company was taken on April 6, 1948. A company truck is backed up to the loading dock just off the puddle parking lot. The warehouse had a capacity of 150,000 cases of dog food and covered an area of...
A snowy southwestern corner of the California State Capitol building is shown here on March 14, 1942, just three months after the United States entered World War II.
Taken from the southwestern corner of Eight and I Streets, this photograph reveals the Doric-columned colonnade of Sacramento’s United States Post Office and Federal Building on February 26, 1935. After 1.3 million dollars in construction...
The Biltwell Garage, located on the southwest corner of Ninth and L, was built in 1920 for a cost of 50,000 dollars for the Brown Motor Sales Company. Once complete, the structure included a garage, machine shop, salesroom and, according to the...
This photograph of the California State Capitol's east side was taken from Capitol Park on August 24, 1929, just months prior to the commencement of the Great Depression. Note the two boys seated on the right, with one holding an opened brochure...
A work crew toils away at constructing a portion of the revetment along the Sacramento River in this July 1940 photograph. Just days prior to this, Colonel Warren T. Hannum of the Army Corps of Engineers declared that the Sacramento Valley's levee...
The staff of Reich and Lievre Women's Furnishings and their participation in the Days of '49 celebrations was captured in this May 1922 photograph. The store had just stepped into its new 808 K Street location in September of 1921. The six-floor...
Pictured here in 1935, the auto top and upholstery business of Fred P. Fritz shared 1615 J Street with William H. Bartlett's Automobile Body Work, Auto Painting, Fender and Body Repair Shop. The employees of both enterprises, along with two...
This 1935 photograph shows an ivy-covered Libby, McNeill and Libby cannery, bordering Stockton Boulevard. On the left side of the photograph is the cannery’s first floor receiving area while just above is the can storage room. In September...
This 1935 photograph shows an ivy-covered Libby, McNeill and Libby cannery, bordering Stockton Boulevard. On the left side of the photograph is the cannery’s first floor receiving area while just above is the can storage room. In September...
Shown in 1949 is a photograph of the Kneeland's Apparel Shop, located at 918 Ninth Street, just west of Sacramento's Plaza Park. Minnie and Frank Kneeland Geisser were the proprietors of the business which had been located on K Street. Following...
This May 14, 1941, photograph shows the facade of Gensler-Lee Jewelers at 730 K Street. Founded by Ralph C. Lee and G.J. Gensler in 1901 and based in San Francisco, the company's Sacramento store moved to the pictured location just days prior. ...
Pictured in 1895 is Fogalsang and Raplee's exhibit at the 1895 California State Fair. The electrician's shop was located at 1109 Tenth Street. On July 13, just weeks before the Fair's opening, the nation's first hydroelectric alternating-current...
Pictured on the evening of December 11, 1948, are the store, nursery and greenhouse of F. Lagomarsino and Sons at 1213 Alhambra Boulevard. The business was founded in 1870 by Felice Lagomarsino, along Riverside Boulevard. It was here that...
Taken from Thirty-Ninth Street while looking north, this September 3, 1931, photograph shows the rear of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church at 3860 J Street. The church’s rectory sits in the foreground. To the right of the rectory are the...
Taken from Thirty-Ninth Street while looking north, this February 29, 1932, photograph shows the rear of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church at 3860 J Street. The church’s rectory sits in the foreground. To the right of the rectory are the...
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...
This circa 1916 photograph shows the Westminster Presbyterian Church as it sits on the northwest corner of Thirteenth and K. Built in 1904 for a cost of 25,000 dollars, the brick structure was twice the size of its Sixth and L Street predecessor. ...
