This photograph taken circa 1880 is of the residence of Mrs. E. B. Crocker (located at Third and O Streets). In 1884, the Crocker Art Gallery became the property of the City of Sacramento.
This 1894 photograph shows the mess hall at Folsom State Prison. Three guards stand at the ready, armed with lead-tipped canes. No firearms were allowed inside the cellblock. Most of the prison’s guards were hired locally. The primary...
A line of Folsom Prison inmates make their way toward the lower yard rock quarry in this circa 1910 photograph. Prisoners who worked the quarries toiled daily for seven-and-a-half hours and without a lunch. Starting in 1884, the prison resolved...
This circa 1900 photograph shows several inmates at work in one of Folsom Prison’s lower yard quarry. A derrick is at the ready for lifting extracted rock. To the lower-right of the photograph is a portion the prison’s electric-powered rock...
This circa 1900 photograph reveals Folsom’s exercise yard. Inmates are involved in some type of physical activity. The earliest proponent of recreation at Folsom was Warden Charles Aull. Starting in 1894, he organized baseball teams with games...
This circa 1900 photograph shows the Folsom State Prison’s original Officers and Guards Building. Tucked into the southeast corner of Folsom, the structure was built in 1895, as indicated by the date stone, which reads “MDCCCXCV.” Two...
From the vantage point of China Hill, this circa 1900 photograph shows the western portion of Folsom Prison. In the foreground is a tiered vegetable garden, a portion of the 15-acres allotted for such. Also visible to the left are the prison...
In the foreground of this circa 1900 photograph is an orchard, a portion of the Folsom Prison’s allotment of 20-acres for fruit production. Beyond the orchard and to the left of the frame is the prison’s Gatling gun tower. The structure...
This circa 1980 photograph shows the riverboat Delta Queen on the Mississippi River. A sign on the vessel’s stern reads, “Delta Queen, Port of Cincinnati, Ohio.” Passenger mill about on different levels of the boat as the paddlewheel rips...
View down a cellblock with all cell doors open. There is a barrel under a pipe to the right. Three suited gentlemen, guards, all holding their lead-tipped canes, stand underneath the catwalk to the upper blocks of cells. See #2207, the same 3 men...
This postcard boasts a photograph as taken from the California State Capitol building's dome, looking west. In the immediate foreground, and completed in 1928, are buildings of the Capitol Extention, to the right the Library and Courts Building,...
This postcard of "California's Magnificent Capitol" has a divided back and space for a one cent stamp as well as informative text underneath the impressive photograph rendered for the burgeoning postcard trade prior to the First World War. The...
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...
Several men, dressed in period garb, stand around the eastern grounds of Sutter's Fort. In the center of the photograph are two cannons. One of the several military artifacts to live at the fort was a cannon known as "Old Union Boy." It had...
This grayscale postcard shows the unofficial entryway to Sacramento proper, the Tower Bridge. The photograph was taken from the West Sacramento side of the Sacramento River, just north of the bridge. Construction on the bridge commenced in July...
Sacramento's Tower Bridge glistens in this evening photograph, taken from its northern side. The bridge was lighted up for first time in August 1989 to commemorate the John Sutter’s August 1839 landing at the confluence of Sacramento and...
This picture of the Sacramento and Yolo Bridge was taken just days before its completion in June 1858. It was built by the Sacramento and Yolo Bridge Company and owned by native-Kentuckian G.P. Gillis and native-Alabaman Elam Covington. Although...
This February 3, 1933, photograph captures the enormity of locomotive and car parts at the Southern Pacific Railroad Shops. At the time of the photograph, Southern Pacific had invested 125,000 dollars into the modernization of forty-one of its...
This photograph, looking east, of a deluged J Street near Fourth Street captures the scale of the flood of December 1861. In the foreground is a sign for dentist W.H. Thomas, and the dry goods store of Patrick O'Connell and Jonathon Ryan. Just...
This 1861 photograph shows flooding at K and Front Streets. A nine-year stretch of calm weather was broken with record flooding in the winter of 1861/1862. The "What Cheer House" saloon is prominent to the right of the photograph as is Ebner's...
