The Sacramento Lodge No. 6 B.P.O.E. (Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks) Escort Team takes a moment out of a formal dinner to pose for a photograph. Two tables of men and women pose for the camera.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Jewell pose for this photograph on the west end of the highway span of the I Street Bridge in 1912. The lower span of the bridge was operated by the Southern Pacific Railroad. As of 1912, the bridge's draw span was the heaviest...
Pictured here in 1935, the auto top and upholstery business of Fred P. Fritz shared 1615 J Street with William H. Bartlett's Automobile Body Work, Auto Painting, Fender and Body Repair Shop. The employees of both enterprises, along with two...
This circa 1893 photograph captures the staff of Mason’s Steam Laundry as they pose before the business’s complex at Twelfth and D Streets. The engines driving the business’s growth were native-German Fred Mason and his wife Caroline, a...
Members of Sacramento’s beverage industry pose to promote the collection of scrap to help the war effort in this July 1, 1943, photograph. The salvage of scrap was a nationwide effort, seeking excess metals and rubber from the public and...
This picture, taken in circa 1920, shows the Southern Pacific S-8 switcher number 1170 pushing a passenger car. Before the train are several individuals in pose. The 1170 was built in 1907 at the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia,...
Eleven Bret Harte Elementary School (3250 Franklin Boulevard) students pose with their teacher on the lawn with trees for a backdrop, taken on June 3, 1938.
A class picture - perhaps the new graduates - at Marshall School. Thirty-nine students pose in three rows for the photographer. A boy in the back row hold up an American flag. All the students are wearing a rosette with long trailing ribbons.
Golden West Motors Company officials pose within the concern's very first truck, unveiled during a celebratory christening on July 1, 1914. Its General Manager was Mark L. Burns while its Corporate Counsel was Fred A. Sloss. The company had been...
Seventh-grade girls from Marshall School, at Twenty-Eighth and G Streets, take a moment from a fashion show to pose for this June 1922 photograph. The show was an annual event that enabled pupils to show off products from their sewing class. In...
Sacramento High School starting eleven pose for a photograph in 1930. In the wake of a thrilling 1929 championship season, the Dragons could only muster a 3-2 season, with one tie. Notable vistories came against both the California Aggie and...
The Chinese inscription on this photograph states: "United States Second City Dancing Party at Hong King Lum" The October 13, 1932, dance commemorates the second anniversary of the establishment's new location. Numerous couples pose for the camera...
Photograph taken in 1942 of of the garage at Bercut-Richards Packing Company. Three workmen pose for the camera. Closest is Jimmie Rogers and in the background to the right is Chuck Schmidt.
Shown in boxing pose in 1944 is Myron Schall, boxing and football coach at the Davis College of Agriculture. A native of Arkansas, Schall was the West Coast boxing champion for his Alma Mater Stanford University, where he received degrees, in...
The Sacramento High School Girls' Tumbling Club strike a dramatically athletic pose in front of the school, located at 2315 Thirty-Fourth Street when this picture was taken on April 12, 1928. Clubs and organizations on campus also included a...
A group of school boys pose on the steps of H. W. Harkness Elementary School (located at Tenth and P Streets), which was called Capitol Grammar School prior to 1894. Some of the students grew up to be well-known Sacramento citizens.
A group of Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company employees pose in chairs placed to the side of the building entrance at 1412 K Street on November 20th, 1929. The PT&T Division office had been serving the communication needs of thousands of...
