Taken between 1928 and 1940, this photograph shows the eastern side of the rotunda of the California State Capitol. The interior of the rotunda is comprised of fifteen levels of steel and wooden planking, weighing a combined seventeen tons. The...
This postcard shows a California State Capitol building's sculpture, entitled "Columbus’ Last Appeal to Queen Isabella." It was created in Florence, Italy, by American sculptor Larkin Goldsmith Meade. It took six years to complete and has sat...
As shown in this circa 1960 postcard, "Columbus’ Last Appeal to Queen Isabella," sculpted by American Larkin Goldsmith Meade was donated to the State of California by local Sacramento banker Darius Ogden Mills in 1883. Resting below the Capitol...
A portion of the portico held up by graceful columns and adorned with larger-than-life figures is visible beneath the dome of the California State Capitol. Postmarked in January of 1911 from Fresno, California, this vintage view featuring a rustic...
This circa 1980 postcard shows a statue of Christopher Columbus with Queen Isabella of Spain, positioned just below the rotunda of the California State Capitol building. The marble edifice was donated to the State of California by local banker...
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,...
This June 5, 1967, photograph shows a portion of the second floor of the Sacramento County Courthouse at 615 I Street. In the foreground is the courthouse’s rotunda, through which sun could beam via a glass dome. In the background are marbled...
This artistic rendering of the Palace of Fine Arts' rotunda and colonnade was done in circa 1915. Built under the guidance of architect Bernard Maybeck between 1913 and 1915 for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915, the depicted...
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, in circa 1990, is the inner dome of the California State Capitol building. From the floor of the capitol to the apex of the inner dome, the distance is 128 feet. The rotunda is also the primary partition between California State Assembly...
This 1996 postcard shows the frieze, pediment and dome of the California State Capitol building as well as a statue of Christopher Columbus and Queen Isabella which stands below the building's interior rotunda. The statue was carved in Florence,...
This postcard shows the Great Seal of the State of California as represented in stained glass. Installed in 1907 in the ceiling of the hallway leading from the California State Capitol building rotunda, the final composition for the Seal was...
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...
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