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...
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...
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...
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...
This circa 1955 photograph shows several storefronts on the south side of K Street, between Thirteenth and Fourteenth Streets. Dohrmann’s, at 1326 K Street, opened in 1952, offering over 200 patterns from nationally known brands of dinnerware,...
A rainy day in 1868 is viewed from on high upon the unfinished dome of the California State Capitol building. N Street and Twelfth Street intersect in the upper portion of the photograph.
A work crew toils away at constructing a portion of the revetment along the Sacramento River in this July 1940 photograph. Just days prior to this, Colonel Warren T. Hannum of the Army Corps of Engineers declared that the Sacramento Valley's levee...
In this July 1936 photograph, a crew constructs a revetment along an unstable portion of the Sacramento River levee. A year prior to the photograph, the California State Board of Reclamation demanded of the Federal Government greater funding of...
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...
Sacramento's outlet for International Business Machines - known to most of the world as IBM - located itself at 1015 Thirteenth Street in 1935. From its opening, until the year that this photograph was taken in 1949, the store's manager was...
The California Fruit Building provides the vantage point for this circa 1940 photograph. Beyond the rear of the Travelers Hotel, the distance reveals, from left to right, the Elks Building, the California Western State Life Insurance Building, and...
Taken in 1950, this photograph provides an aerial view of the Capitol Inn at 1130 West Capitol Avenue in West Sacramento, California. The hotel was designed to look like the California State Capitol building. The Hotel El Rancho sat just across...
One of several riverboats lists afire in this August 28, 1932, photograph. The fire started at 12:45 a.m. on the west bank of the Sacramento River. During the incident, riverside flora caught fire priming flames to make their way toward the I...
A flooded Del Paso Boulevard in 1927. The photograph shows the flood past its peak, with people holding umbrellas and walking on a less-flooded portion of the street.
Pictured in circa 1962 is Karl’s Shoes at 620 K Street. Part of a nationwide chain, Karl’s opened its first Sacramento store at 721 K Street in 1929. To the right of the photograph is a portion of Breuner’s Furniture at 600 through 618 K...
Pictured in 1955 is the Front Street side of the Western Warehouse Company at 100 through 114 K Street. Visible is signage for the building’s previous tenants, the Western Van and Storage Company, and to the left of the frame, the faint writing...
Taken in circa 1960, this photograph shows a portion of Third Street, between J and K Streets. Inhabiting the old Sacramento Bee building is the the Big Meal Cafe at 1020 Third Street. Also visible is the Xochimilco Cafe at 1022 Third Street.