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...
This photograph taken circa 1880 is of the residence of Mrs. E. B. Crocker (located at Third and O Streets). In 1884, the Crocker Art Gallery became the property of the City of Sacramento.
Waldo E. Julian's residence, at 1618 M Street, is the focus of this circa 1900 photograph. The sidewalk along the south side of M Street, between Sixteenth and Seventeenth streets, is made of wood planks, and a small girl stands in front of the...
Seen here in 1890, this residence at 917 “H” Street was built in 1882 by architects Seth Babson and James Seadler in the style of ‘Victorian Stick,’ characterized by rectangular shaping, wood siding, and a steep, gabled roof with...
This circa 1900 leather postcard shows a rendering of the Crocker Art Gallery, as it stands at Second and O streets. Built in 1872/73, the gallery was expanded in 1912 to include what had been the Crocker family's residence at the northeast corner...
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...
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...
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...
This photograph of the California Governor's Mansion was taken on July 24, 1943, from the northeast corner of Sixteenth and H Streets. When the structure was built by Albert Gallatin as a private residence in 1877, the area was semi-rural. The...
This January 1, 1900, photograph looks northerly from the dome of the California State Capitol building toward the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament at Eleventh and K Streets. The steeple on the immediate right of the photograph is that of the...
This February 29, 1904, photograph captures flooding just below the Y Street Levee. The break in the levee occurred on February 27 near the Freeport Boulevard farm and residence of Eustace R. Edwards, resulting in the inundation and loss of nearly...
The intersection of Tenth and L, as taken from the Capitol Dome, was captured in this 1897 photograph. The large structure on the far corner is the residence of flour mill manager Charles McCreary and his wife Fannie, while the even bigger...
Mrs. Elizabeth Richardson, pictured here circa 1873, was the wife of dairyman John Frink Richardson. Born in England in October 1817; she came to the United States in 1841 and settled in Sacramento in 1849. Upon arriving in the young city, she...
Thomas Calley Perkins, namesake of Perkins Station, appears in this 1865 photograph. A native of Marblehead, Massachusetts, it has been written that he walked to California in 1850. In the same year, he settled in Brighton, which had been located...
A view of Fourth Street, circa 1960, showing Stark's Cafe (902 Fourth Street), Hank's Barbershop (904 Fourth Street), the residence of Lum Wah (908 Fourth Street), and the State Hotel (906 Fourth Street).
Photograph, circa 1960, of the Hotel Rialto and Rialto Cafe, located at 228 and 230 J Street. What became known as the Rialto Building replaced two structures built in the 1860s. The present buildings originally housed clothing and general...
As taken from the west side of Second Street, between L Street and Capitol Avenue, this photograph shows a residence at 1217 Second Street and the La Sampatia Restaurant at 1219 Second Street.
Georgia Fisher died on December 27, 1875, from typhoid fever. She was aged 19 years, 10 months and 2 days. A memorial service was held at a residence at Twenty-Second and L streets, prior to interment at the City Cemetery, at Tenth and Y...
John J. Dixie Bottaro, originally a clerk and then founder and president of Sacramento Bail Bond Agency, Sacramento Liquor Company, and Argonaut Wine and Liquor Company at 1017 Fourth Street. His residence was at 1225 Twenty-eighth Street in 1936...
Taken on March 14, 1942, this photograph shows the family of Archibald Mull standing before the front door of their home at 1358 Fortieth Street, in East Sacramento. Mull was a Boalt Law School graduate and was a practicing attorney until his...
