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.
Shown in circa 2000 is the California State Capitol building, as viewed from the southwest. The rotunda and Senate and Assembly chambers were just a year away from a 425,000 dollar, two month-long dusting and restoration, the first since a 68...
Shown prior to restoration, in circa 1885, is the central building at Sutter's Fort, located at Twenty-Seventh and L streets. Prior to its rehabiliation, thanks in part to 20,000 dollars appropriated by California's legislature and to the efforts...
Shown in circa 1885 is Sutter Fort's multi-purpose central building, just before restoration in 1890. Prior to rehabilitation, the central building was the only portion of the original fort left and was viewed to be the first vestige of the fort...
This circa 1977 photograph shows the Ruhstaller Building at Ninth and J Streets with Jewelcraft Loans at 900 J Street and Albert Ramirez Bail Bonds occupying the ground floor at 1005 Ninth Street. Built in 1898 by Sacramento brewer and capitalist,...
Photograph dated March 13, 1947, the vessel identified as the "Fort Sutter" (1912-1959). The old Sacramento/San Joaquin passenger riverboat Fort Sutter, still in its wartime gray, is shown moored at Three Mile Slough in the Sacramento/San Joaquin...
This vertical view of the California State Capitol Building framed against a gray/green sky is a dramatic example of an innovative way to get more mileage out of a stationary subject. Hundreds of views of the Capitol Building have been marketed as...
The California State Capitol set back from an illuminated fountain at night is the subject of this postcard. "A dramatic night view of the Capitol with a photo of the stained glass window replica of the Seal of California, which was installed...
Resting near Old Sacramento State Historic Park, in 1999, is the "Delta King" riverboat. Prior to rehabilitation, the vessel, built in 1926, was sunk in Richmond Harbor for 15 months. After purchase, it arrived at Sacramento, under the power of...
This circa 1982 postcard shows the exquisite artwork making up the California State Capitol building's inner rotunda. In the same year, the Capitol interior underwent a 68 million dollar restoration. In 2001, the rotunda was dusted and cleaned,...
Pictured near the Southern Pacific Railroad's passenger station is the C.P. Huntington. It was placed at the pictured location in 1939. In 1964, Southern Pacific donated the Huntington to the State of California and, by 1980, it was undergoing...
Sutter's Fort and Saint Francis Catholic Church are displayed prominently in this postcard. The long road to returning the historic site to its previous grandeur started in 1890, when the Sunset Parlor of the Native Sons of the Golden West...
This postcard shows the northern grounds of Sutter's Fort, as seen from K Street. Also visible are the fort's northwest bastion and pond. Prior to earnest restoration in the 1890s, the pond had been a slough, running east to west. It was...
A dilapidated central building at Sutter's Fort is the subject of this circa 1885 postcard. The full resoration of the building and the entire fort in September 1891, when contractor George W. Murray, Jr., layed the first adobe brick, fired in a...
Shown in 1888 is the weatherworn central building at Sutter's Fort. The last remaining vestige of the original fort, the three level structure contained offices, living quarters, a hospital, and rooms for entertainment and storage.
This postcard shows the crumbling central building at Sutter's Fort. When the fort was active, the depicted structure was frenzied with activity vital to the function of the compound, the business interests of the Sutter, and the morale of the...
The eastern face of Sutter's Fort is represented in this postcard. After its restoration in the 1890s, much of the tree, shrubbery and floral sections were donated by the Native Daughters of the Golden West.
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...
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