Photograph circa 1943 of the New Helvetia Homes Housing Project at 816 Revere Street, a short stretch south of Broadway that dead ends at Sacramento's Old City Cemetery.
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...
Founded in 1876 by the Brothers of the Christian Schools at the southwest corner of Twelfth and K Streets, Christian Brothers School has held subsequent locations at Twenty-First and Broadway, and 4315 Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard. After a...
In this October 1937 photograph, a revetment borders a section of the Sacramento River. Efforts to strengthen the levee system within the Sacramento-San Joaquin Flood Control Project were especially vigorous after the March 1936 breach of several...
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...
This March 4, 1931, photograph was taken from the west end of the State Capitol grounds, looking toward the east side of the California State Library and Courts Building, located at 914 Capitol Avenue. The building was part of a Capitol extension...
Pictured on April 11, 1928, and located directly across from the Esquire Theater, is the Del Rio Hotel on 1212 K Street. Visible is the façade of the structure with various cars parked before it. By late 1941, however, it was converted into a...
This circa 1942 photograph reveals a glowing interior of the Hippodrome Theater at 1013 K Street. Just four years later, on September 14, 1946, the marquee of the Hippodrome collapsed onto K Street, killing one person and injuring three. A...
This circa 1951 photograph shows the proposed deep water ship channel project, intended to connect Sacramento's Lake Washington to Suisun Bay. Prior to the 1963 completion of the channel, the transport of goods was done primarily through rail and...
Photograph of proposed deep water ship channel project for the Sacramento River, connecting Sacramento's Lake Washington to Suisun Bay. This picture is of a drawing of the proposed channel looking to the south.
Taken on March 28, 1932, this photograph shows the Mausoleum of the St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery at 6700 Twenty-First Avenue. The 80,000 dollar structure was built in 1929/30 in the shape of a cross and represented a culmination of the efforts of...
Boaters take in a pleasant day at the south end of Southside Park in this circa 1929 photograph. The lake kept form until 1965 when earthfill was dumped into its south end as part of the construction of the X and Y Freeway. In a matter of days,...
The entrance to Grant Stadium at Grant Union High School is shown here in 1939. The venue was built the same year by the Works Progress Administration. Its design was intended to mirror that of Stanford University's Stanford Stadium, complete...
This 1938 aerial view of Grant Union High School shows campus buildings, including an under-construction Grant Stadium in the upper, right corner. Nearly all of the structures on the Grant campus came courtesy of the Works Progress Administration...
This circa 1970 photograph shows the recently-redeveloped K Street Mall with a close-up of one of its signature water features. Designed in 1969 by four different Bay Area landscape architects, the 2.1 million dollar project called for six-blocks...
Taken in 1928, this photograph shows the ornate facade of Sacramento's Memorial Auditorium, located at 1515 J Street. The structure was erected on land donated by John Sutter, Junior, and had been the site of Mary J. Watson Grammar School. ...
1960 Photo of the Ebner Hotel (116 K Street), Capitol Wholesale Distributors (122-124 K Street, hotel supplies in the old Empire House wherein one story has been taken off), and Wicht Manufacturing Company (126 K Street, extractors and/or syrup...
Viewed from the north side of I Street in 1961 is the Confucius Church. Located at the Sixth and I Streets, the recently built structure cost 600,000 dollars contained a gymnasium, auditorium (seating 550 persons), and Chinese language school. ...
This 1998 photograph shows the headstone of Georgia Fisher who died on December 27, 1875. She was aged 19 years, 10 months and 2 days. The elaborately carved plaque mounted on a red tile background features carved flowers and clasped hands. It...
Pictured here is restoration work in progress at the Old City Cemetery, located at 1000 Broadway. The work pictured was performed by the Sacramento County Sheriff's Work Project.
