Taken prior to a 1938 parade, this photograph captures the float of Sacramento's Lieutenant Lansdale Post, or Post 67, of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Four uniformed men pose in combat stances while one is prone and being attended to by a nurse.
A cowboy rodeo rider strikes a dramatic pose as the camera catches him holding on to the rein with his left hand while holding his right arm aloft, the horses back hooves clearing the dust and dirt of the track they are on. Horsemen and spectators...
This July 2, 1928, photograph shows the girls' polo team from the Sacramento Riding Club. The 15 members and four ponies pose in front of the club's barn and 3401 Del Paso Boulevard location, in Del Paso. The riding group had been established just...
It's the third annual dance and entertainment for Sacramento Chapter No. 153 of the Order of AHEPA. Elks Hall is filled with the merrymakers who pose for a group picture. Smiles and stoic stares appear on the faces of the many males wearing ties...
It's a sunny day (June 24, 1934) at South Side Park and a group of twenty six men who have gathered for an old timers' game of baseball pose for this photograph. Most of the men are wearing caps, some with initials or unique stripes, and baseballs,...
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...
Several members of Sacramento’s Business and Professional Women’s Club pose in this 1958 photograph. Founded in 1919, the group sought to elevate the standards for women in business and the professions, thereby promoting the overall economic,...
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 smiling man and infant pose for this circa 1925 photograph, inside the open cab of a period Peerless Ice Cream delivery truck. Advertising covers the truck, one slogan reading “Peerless Ice Cream, Gives Health and Delight.” Peerless was one...
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.
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).
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.
