Here is Andy's Drive-in, as it stood on March 18, 1941. Named for Andrew Swenson, it was located at 2995 Freeport Boulevard. The carhops in fancy uniform pose alongside their customers' vehicles for this publicity shot.
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.
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.
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.
Children dressed in Summer Reading costumes (the theme was Circus of Books) pose in front of the Sacramento Public Library's Traveling Branch (ca. 1970).
Several Friend and Terry employees pose on and around a tricycle tractor and three trailers piled high with lumber. Founded in 1851, the lumber company lasted 112 years, closing in 1963. It drew most of its raw materials from the Coos Bay region...
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...
Adorned with striped bandanas, middies and bloomers, young women basketballers pose for a team photograph in 1925, just three decades after the sport's invention in Springfield, Massachusetts, by James Naismith.
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...
This 1959 photograph captures a giddy troika of graduating seniors from La Sierra High School, located at 5330 Gibbons Drive, in Carmichael. In the center is commencement announcer Roberta Owens. Graduation speakers Bob Andrews and Janet Sjolund...
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.
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...
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...
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.