Centered at the junction of the California Central rails and the Central Pacific Railway and named for the abundant wildflowers in the area, the town of Roseville formed a school district in 1869 but had no schoolhouse of its own until 1872. A...
A canny businessman and idealistic philanthropist, David Lubin and his brother-in-law Harris Weinstock made Weinstock-Lubin the Sacramento area’s best-known and most popular mercantile establishment for over a century. By the time of his death in...
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...
Pictured in 1935 is the Libby, McNeill and Libby cannery in Locke, California, located just less than a mile north of the town. In the foreground is the southernmost portion of Snodgrass Slough. The long buildings, just on the banks of the slough...
Taken on May 1, 1940, this photograph captures the California State Business and Professions Building, also known as State Office Building Number 3. Located at 1020 N Street, the structure was built in 1939 to house the State Department of...
This May 2, 1940, photograph captures the facade of the State of California Office Building Number One, located at 915 Capitol Avenue. Its cornerstone was laid to great delight in September 1923 and included a Masonic marching band and speeches by...
Pictured in circa 1910 is the Weinstock, Lubin and Company department store at 400 K Street. The structure replaced the previous Weinstocks building, located on the same spot. What the "Sacramento Bee" had called "The Magnificent White Building...
The facade of the Hotel Enterprise located at 914 Second Street looms in this circa 1925 photograph. The Salvation Army hotel and employment agency are also visible. In the same building were the Eastern Restaurant, Bonini's Shaving Parlor, and...
This circa 1945 photograph shows the auditorium of San Juan Union High School, located at 7551 Greenback Lane in Citrus Heights, California. The school was founded in 1913, making it the second oldest school in Sacramento County behind Sacramento...
Mrs. Elizabeth Richardson, pictured here circa 1873, was the wife of dairyman John Frink Richardson. Born in England in October 1817; she came to the United States in 1841 and settled in Sacramento in 1849. Upon arriving in the young city, she...
The living room in the Old Governor's Mansion, which is located at Sixteenth and H Streets, is the subject of this photograph, taken circa 1955. Lavishly decorated, this former drawing room boasts one of seven Italian marble fireplaces. All the...
Shown in 2002 are three homes, located on the north side of F Street -- left to right, 1017, 1021, and 1029 -- in the Alkali Flat section of Sacramento. To the far right of the frame is the J. Neely Johnson House which, built in 1854, has been a...
Several young men take in gymnastics activities at Sacramento's YMCA, located at Fifth and J Streets. Beginning in earnest in October 1866, the organization was instrumental in providing a safety net for a city's youth living in close proximity to...
This 1995 postcard shows a camellia bush in Capitol Park. Located at Thirteenth and L streets, it is part of the Pioneer Camellia Grove that was planted in March 1942 by the Native Sons and Daughters of the Golden West. A total of 50 trees were...
Pictured in this 1945 postcard are Sacramento's 105-year-old Sarah Van Dyke and radio personality Tom Breneman. The photograph was captured during Breneman's radio program "Breakfast In Hollywood," an unscripted variety program that thrived on...
This circa 1956 postcard shows a Christmas window display at Breuner's Furniture, located at 600 K Street. A regional fixture from 1934 to 1971, the displays offered animated, three-quarter-sized figures living out Holiday scenes. The company...
