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...
Taken in 1951, this photograph shows the Sacramento Solons baseball team at Edmonds Field, located at Broadway and Riverside Boulevard. After a successful individual season from Joe Gordon, who had 136 runs batted in and 43 home runs, the Solons...
Taken from the south, this May 1956 aerial photograph captures Sacramento High School at Thirty-Fourth and W Streets. Y Street runs east- west in the foreground while Thirty-Fourth Street runs north-south to the far left of the photograph. The...
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...
The arrival of the Sisters of Mercy from San Francisco in 1857 began a tradition of education that served Sacramento for over a century. Commercial and traditional subjects along with lessons in musical instruments were the courses taught at St....
Centered at the junction of the California Central rails and the Central Pacific Railway and named for the abundant wildflowers in the area, the town of Roseville formed a school district in 1869 but had no schoolhouse of its own until 1872. A...
Growing children with no available outlet for further education was incentive enough for sixteen elementary school districts to establish California’s first union high school in Elk Grove. The initial building was housed in what is now Old Town...
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...
Pictured in circa 1930 is the main entrance to the Masonic Lawn Cemetery at 2700 Riverside Boulevard. Riverside Boulevard runs north-south in the foreground, while tracks for the Pacific Gas and Electric streetcar are also visible. Within five...
This aerial photograph of the California Packing Company plant at 1721 C Street was taken in 1932. The photograph also reveals Sixteenth Street, looking north from C Street. Also in view is a section of the North Levee under the main line of...
This July 11, 1935, photograph reveals the north side of the Hotel Sacramento as it runs along K Street. Occupying its first floor, and moving left to right, are Margaret Burnham's Cottage Candies, Salzman Furs, Mason's Men's Shop, Grebitus...
This 1934 photograph shows the Coloma School at 4623 T Street. In the foreground, children sit on the steps that lead up to the school’s southwestern entrance. T Street runs before them. Originally known as Elmhurst School, the Byzantine-style...
Resting in circa 1950 at 1200 K Street is George Takahashi Optometry. Takahashi was first generation Japanese American, or Nisei, born in California to a family of eleven children. His brothers, Henry, William and Ernest were also physicians, and...
Captured sometime in mid 1970s from the vantage point of Seventh Street, between I and J Streets, is the Security National Bank at 631 J Street and the Crocker Citizens National Bank at 700 J Street. In the middle of the frame, with its red brick...
This 1992 photograph captures both the new Angelo Tsakopoulos Galleria and the 1917 Central Library. On both sides of the entrance to the galleria are bronzed sculptures of foxes. Ninth Street runs in the foreground.
Pictured in 1930 is a section of downtown Sacramento, including, most prominently, the twin Capitol Extension buildings, State Capitol building, and Capitol Park. To the upper-left section of the photograph is the Cathedral of the Blessed...
This August 1916 photograph shows members of the Capital City Motorcycle Club. They are, left to right, Mrs. Arthur Johnson, Mrs. Ruth Fabian, Mrs. Gertie Riffe (holding unknown baby), Mrs. Lee Boiland (Myrtle), Elizabeth Boiland, Lillian Johns,...
This rare circa 1915 photograph shows the northern grounds of Sutter's Fort. In the foreground, a cow feeds on grass, standing behind a line of barbed wire runs. In the middle of the photograph is the compound's blockhouse. The fort is located...
Pictured at Moreing Field, at Riverside Boulevard and Y Street, are the 1925 Sacramento Solons. In spite of Wilbur Davis' .330 batting average and 119 runs batted in, the Solons finished the year with a 82 and 119 record, placing them in seventh...
Pictured in 1923 is Leo Lobner Clothiers, the champions of Sacramento’s Winter League for 1922/23. The team defeated Thomson-Diggs by a score of 9-3 on February 18, 1923, to seal the city championship. The star for the “Lobner’s” was Ken...
