This postcard shows the California Vietnam Veterans Memorial at Capitol Park. Dedicated in December 1988, the spot lists the names of the 5,822 Californians who died in the Vietnam War or are still missing. 64 feet in diameter, the memorial is...
As viewed from the east and across Capitol Park's Rose Garden, is the California Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Dedicated in December 1988, after a fund drive that reached nearly 2,000,000 dollars, the memorial is composed of four granite panels, each...
California Middle School is located at 1600 Vallejo Way in Sacramento, California. Designed by Sacramento architecture luminary Harry Devine and built at a cost of $300,000, the structure opened in November 1933 with an enrollment of 738 pupils...
Pictured in 1926, at Sixteenth Avenue and Freeport Boulevard, is William Land Park’s World War One Veteran’s Memorial. The 2,000 dollar monument was donated by the Women’s Council of Sacramento County and reads as follows: “Dedicated To...
Sacramento’s Memorial Auditorium at 1515 J Street often served as a boxing venue. It is pictured here in 1935, readied to host a boxing match. The same year that this photograph was taken, the 3,500-seat building was host to the Pacific Coast...
Shown in circa 1930 is the Memorial Auditorium, situated at Sixteenth and J streets. Funding for the memorial structure and its furnishings came primarily via bonds, with the total cost sitting at 1.5 million dollars. The structure -- built to...
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...
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 wide open view of the northern reaches of William Land Park was taken in 1926. To the photograph’s left is the memorial statue and fountain of Charles Swanston, built in 1923/24 by Paris-based sculpture Ralph Stackpole, who also created the...
This photograph of the Southern Pacific Railroad Station, at 401 I Street, was taken in 1941. Covered in the right foreground is the Collis P. Huntington locomotive. To the left is the Theodore D. Judah Memorial. The engine was built on the...
Taken in 1928, this photograph shows the ornate facade of Sacramento's Memorial Auditorium, located at 1515 J Street. The structure was erected on land donated by John Sutter, Junior, and had been the site of Mary J. Watson Grammar School. ...
This photograph shows the Sacramento Memorial Auditorium, located at 1515 J Street. Long one of Sacramento's most iconic structures, it was opened on February 22, 1927, to honor those Sacramentans who died in the First World War. The building's...
This June 19, 1937, photograph shows the Clunie Memorial Swimming Pool at McKinley Park, located at Alhambra and F Streets. The pool, clubhouse and recreational facilities were designed by Sacramento-based architect Harry Devine, in association...
This 1955 photograph of Capitol Park shows the Veterans of the Spanish-American War memorial, which abuts the park's trout pond. The feature, dedicated in 1949 and located just to the east of the Capitol Building, is known as the "Hiker Statue,"...
This 1955 photograph shows the Sacramento Memorial Auditorium. Located between Fifteenth and Sixteenth Streets on J Street, was built in 1927 to commemorate veterans of the First World War.
The Stanford-Lathrop Memorial Home for Friendless Children sits at the southeast corner of Eighth and N Streets in this circa 1910 postcard. Originally belonging to capitalist Leland Stanford, the home was ceded, in 1900, to the Catholic Diocese...
This circa 2000 postcard shows the Mt. Vernon Memorial Park Cemetery, located at 8201 Greenback Lane, in Fair Oaks, California. Founded in 1965, the 49-acre property was modeled after the Virginia estate of President George Washington.
