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...
California Middle School is located at 1600 Vallejo Way in Sacramento, California. Designed by Sacramento architecture luminary Harry Devine and built at a cost of $300,000, the structure opened in November 1933 with an enrollment of 738 pupils...
Photographed in 1955 is Jackson's Furniture Store as it sat on the southwest corner of Fourteenth and K Streets. Jacksons was started in Oakland, California, in 1889 by Henry Jackson. Jackson and his business holds considerable distinction for...
Shown here, in circa 1950, is the business office of the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) at 2101 K Street. The power utility was created by the vote of Sacramento County residents on July 11, 1923. For the next two decades, however,...
Taken in 1970, this photograph shows an unnamed sculpture and fountain done by Norman Grag. Located at the main branch of the Wells Fargo Bank at 500 Capitol Mall, the fountain was an example of the city's requirement that, in any building...
Three of Camp Sacramento's 35 cabins rest along a clearing of forest in this 1928 photograph. Providing electricity to the units was the Camp's own hydroelectric plant. Cabins also had access to potable water. And just a year later, a United...
The Sacramento County Administration Building is shown in 1956, at the northeast corner of Seventh and I Streets. The five-story structure was completed in the same year, providing a home for the County's Welfare Department, Treasurer, Recorder,...
This May 3, 1947, photograph shows a teeming Land Park Plunge, located at Riverside Boulevard and Eleventh Avenue. The pool was served by an artesian well, tapped a half-mile deep, and providing a near constant flow of fresh water, always at 82...
Photograph taken circa 1955 of the exterior of radio station KFBK, located at 708 I Street. KFBK was licensed to McClatchy Broadcasting in 1925 when it was powered by a one hundred watt transmitter and the Sacramento Bee became the first newspaper...
In this frenetic photograph, taken in September 1895, a few of the 30,000 travelers that made their way to Sacramento for the Grand Electric Carnival and California Admission Day festivities are seen making their way to transportation and...
Plying the waters since 1878, the steamboat "Pride of the River" is shown in action, in circa 1911, somewhere along the Sacramento River. The 175-foot-long craft was constructed at San Francisco's Meigg's Wharf and could carry up to 500 tons of...
This 2002 photograph reveals the atrium of the Embassy Suites Hotel at 100 Capitol Mall. The 242-room hotel was opened in April 2002 under the direction of owner John Kehriotis. Interior of the structure was adorned with 700,000 dollars in public...
Several young men take in gymnastics activities at Sacramento's YMCA, located at Fifth and J Streets. Beginning in earnest in October 1866, the organization was instrumental in providing a safety net for a city's youth living in close proximity to...
This postcard, providing a corner view of the landmark Hotel Sacramento at K Street and Tenth Street circulated prior to 1930. It is sepia-toned and bears the printed description "On the road of a thousand wonders" on the back.
A massive palm tree stands sentinel over McKinley Park's rose garden in this circa 1950 postcard. The garden was designed by Harvard-educated Frederick N. Evans, the city's first parks superintendent. Far from an easy task, Evans was forced to...
This circa 1950 postcard promotes the Top of the Town restaurant, located on the fourteenth floor of the Elks Temple at 925 Eleventh Street. Providing a 360-degree view of the Sacramento and Yolo Counties, it opened in the late 1940s and closed in...
This circa 1948 postcard provides an aerial view of the California State Fairgrounds at Broadway and Stockton Boulevard. In the upper section of the postcard is the racetrack. Within it, is a lake that was added in 1947. By 1950, it was enlarged...
This circa 1996 postcard provides an aerial view of the California State Capitol building, as seen from the west. The Capitol was originally constructed, from 1861 to 1873, of brick, providing no safety for the horizontal stresses brought on by...
This circa 1910 postcard provides a charming welcome to Sacramento, providing a window into the city's finest sights including its buildings and citizens. The entry reads as follows: "Dear Flora, I haven't heard from you in a long while, hope you...
Sutter's Fort is rendered in this circa 1930 linen postcard, providing a bird's-eye view from the southeast. L Street runs east-west on the foregrond. In the background is the St. Francis of Assissi Catholic Church which was dedicated in 1910.
