The Pioneer Baking Company at 3226 Montgomery Street is captured in this February 18, 1929, photograph. A few years prior to the photograph, the company spent 25,000 dollars to improve facilities and roll out a new type of bread made from...
In this circa 1933 photograph, the neo-Gothic-style Pioneer Congregational Church rests at its 2700 L Street address. With an L Street frontage of 120 feet and a Twenty-Seventh street run of 102 feet, the church was built in 1926/27 by the...
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...
Taken from Sutter’s Fort and looking across L Street, this circa 1933 photograph shows the Pioneer Congregational Church at 2700 L Street. Built in 1926/27 for a cost of 170,000 dollars, the concrete-shelled church was intended to memorialize...
Men in western costume pose next to the Bicentennial-themed Sacramento Public Library Pioneer bookmobile. This mobile library was in operation from 1975 through the late 1980s.
Seen here in 1890, this residence at 917 “H” Street was built in 1882 by architects Seth Babson and James Seadler in the style of ‘Victorian Stick,’ characterized by rectangular shaping, wood siding, and a steep, gabled roof with...
Shown in circa 1970, as viewed from the western banks of the Sacramento River, is California Interstate 80 and the Pioneer Memorial Bridge. 17,000 tons of steel went into building the structure, which was completed in 1966. It holds distinction for...
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...
San Juan Union High School is located at 7551 Greenback Lane in Citrus Heights, California. Founded in 1913, it stands as Sacramento County’s second oldest high school behind that of Sacramento High School, established in 1856. The school’s...
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...
The First Christian Church sits at 2701 N Street in this circa 1924 photograph. The Romanesque structure was built in 1911 for a cost of 30,000 dollars. The previous church – located at Sixteenth and L Streets – was burned down during the...
Pictured under neon lighting, on the evening of June 1, 1937, is Zinke’s Shoe Renewing Corporation at 1106 K Street. The Sacramento location, which opened in 1937, was part of a constellation of stores that ran from San Diego to northern...
This spring 1868 picture – as taken from the roof of the Pioneer Milling Company at Front and G Streets – shows the Central Pacific Railroad as it ran along the northerly section of China Slough, also known as Sutter Lake or Sutter Slough. At...
Taken in 1960, this photograph shows the former Western Union Telegraph Company building, having operated from 1868 to 1938. Prior to that, the building, known as the Pioneer Telegraph Building, housed the California Telegraph Company from 1863...
Numerous cars are parked at the curb in this J Street view. The Welcome Hotel at 221 J is an historic building, erected in October of 1855 by Milton S. Latham, a pioneer attorney for Sacramento and El Dorado Counties. Latham became a Congressman...
Mrs. Ledyard Frink was an early Sacramento pioneer who came overland with her husband in a covered wagon, reaching Sacramento on September 1, 1850. Her husband, Ledyard Frink built a hotel on the southwest corner of Seventh and K Streets in the...
Ledyard Frink was an early Sacramento pioneer who came overland with his wife in a covered wagon, reaching Sacramento on September 1, 1850. He built a hotel on the southwest corner of Seventh and K Streets in the early 1850's and was a member of...
This 1970 photograph was taken near the intersection of Seventh and I Streets, looking southward toward J. The Security National Bank is on the right, facing J at 631, while the Crocker Citizens National Bank at 700 J Street looms to the left. In...
The Sacramento Junior College football team poses for this 1928 photograph within the newly-completed, 25,000-seat Sacramento Stadium. The team's 1928 season was a charmed one with a 8-1 record and California state junior college championship. ...
Sacramento and Sutter's Fort celebrated its100th anniversary in 1939 with a "Golden Empire" Centennial. Many of the celebrants dressed (and posed) in pioneer costume. The ladies are on the balcony of the central building at the Fort while the...
