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 Southern Pacific Railroad Bridge, as taken from the west bank of the Sacramento River, was shot in 1894. Built in 1892/93, it was the second Southern Pacific span, and third overall, to be built at this very spot. It was...
Shown here are two brick buildings, one of which houses the Rubber Stamp Company (620 I Street) and the other houses the Sacramento County Agricultural Commissioner & Sealer of Weights and Measures (622 I Street), Capital Credit and Adjustment...
Taken in circa 1975, this photo of the K Street Mall shows not simply pedestrians crossing at Ninth and K Streets, but the diversity that would come to define so much of latter twentieth-century Sacramento. Population distribution for Sacramento,...
Sacramento High School starting eleven pose for a photograph in 1930. In the wake of a thrilling 1929 championship season, the Dragons could only muster a 3-2 season, with one tie. Notable vistories came against both the California Aggie and...
Boxing greatness poses for this November 22, 1935, photograph, taken at the L Street Arena at 223 L Street. Persons identified, from left to right, are James Braddock's manager, Joe Gould, Max Baer, Tommy "Tomboy" Romero, James Braddock, referee...
Fireside Lanes Bowling Alley at 7901 Auburn Boulevard is shown in 1960. Constructed in the same year and set in the Grand Oaks Shopping Center, the 24-lane structure contained a coffee shop and cocktail lounge, the latter containing the alley's...
Taken at corner of Seventeenth and L streets, on January 16, 1932, this photograph captures the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) at 1122 Seventeenth Street. The three-story brick structure was designed by architect Charles F. Dean, and...
This 1925 photograph shows a tee and green from the golf course of the Del Paso Country Club. The course experienced a 2,500 dollar upgrade in 1929 with the introduction of over 1,800 shrubs and trees, the latter including Huntington elms and...
An October 26, 1931 photograph shows the façade of the Panama Pottery factory at 4421 Twenty-Fourth Street, nearly three blocks south of Sacramento Stadium and Sacramento Junior College. Three years earlier, the business a support structure due...
Pictured on August 21, 1936, at 2200 Stockton Boulevard, is the Coca Cola Bottling Company. The 27,500 building was designed by Sacramento architect Charles F. Dean and went into operation shortly after this photograph was taken. The modern...
Presented in 1909 are Sacramento's English Lutheran Church at 1018 Sixteenth Street and the German Lutheran Church at 1207 K Street. The former was founded in 1890 at Fireman's Hall, moving to the pictured location in 1897. The latter was...
This circa 1915 postcard shows the Southern Methodist Episcopal Church at 1431 J Street and the Westminster Presbyterian Church at 1235 K Street. The former, made of brick and wood, was built in 1906 for 14,000 dollars, but vacated in 1924 in...
As seen from the center of Capital Park, this circa 1900 postcard shows, to the left, the State Printing Office and its bindery wing, and, to the right, the State Agricultural Fair Building. The latter structure would be razed by 1908. Fifteenth...
This circa 1905 postcard shows the long pathway, running east-west through Capitol Park, toward the distant California State Capitol building. The avenue -- Victorian in style -- was constructed to connect the Capitol with the Agricultural...
Shown in September 1905 is the rear of the California State Capitol building. In the foreground are several of the infant flora of Capitol Park's west end. In the latter nineteenth century, the park was enriched with silt and soils from the bed...
Shown in 1915, at the intersection of Seventh and K are, to the left, the Capital Hotel and, to the right, the Golden Eagle Hotel. The latter was first built in 1853, undergoing rennovations well into the twentieth-century. The former was built...
This circa 1910 postcard shows the Golden Eagle Hotel, located at Seventh and K Streets. The structure - occupying 133 feet on K and 140 on K - was known throughout the latter nineteenth century to be a gathering spot for local and national...
Shown in circa 1910 is the northern entrance to Oak Park, set at the southern end of the intersection of Thirty-Fifth Street and Fifth Avenue, the latter originally known as Park Avenue. Just beyond the trees is the Oak Park Amusement Park which,...
This circa 1905 postcard shows Oak Park and Joyland's signature entrance arch, located at Thirty-Fifth Street and Fifth Avenue, the latter originally known as Park Avenue. It was erected in 1903 by the California Gas and Electric Company, which...
