This view of the corner of L Street and Front Street shows a deserted street and a single brick building, circa 1960. The corner business was the Reconditioned Bag Company (100-110 L Street). This building was formerly the Stanford Brothers store.
This 1959 postcard shows an Edsel station wagon, somewhere in Sacramento County. By 1960, in contrast to the county's population of 502,000, it contained some 2,814 miles of roads, being used by roughly 268,000 registered vehicles.
This photograph, taken circa 1960, shows a row of businesses along K Street, including the Ring Side Second Hand Store (226 K Street), the International Pharmacy (224 K Street), the El Sombrero Restaurant (222 K Street), Hotel Lal (222? K Street),...
This circa 1997 artistic rendering shows the 4th Street Grille, located at 400 L Street. Specializing in "New American"-style cuisine and creative appetizers, the eatery opened in 1992 under the culinary prowess of chef Ron Fleming. It sits in...
This circa 1912 postcard shows an evening at the intersection of Seventh and K Streets. To the far right of the frame is a section of the city's main Post Office and Federal Building. In the middle of the image is a California-style Pacific Gas...
This circa 1911 evening rendering of the intersection at Eighth and K streets, shows the Clunie Theater in foreground and the spires of the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacramento appear in the distance. On the back of the postcard, it states "on the...
This circa 1920 postcard shows Eighth Street between the I and J streets. In the foreground is Eighth's intersection with J, where the eight-story People's Savings Bank, at 1000 Eighth Street, looms. Before it, boasting neon signage, sits the...
Photograph shows New Mexico Cafe (904 Sixth Street), advertising tacos and enchiladas to take out as well as American & Mexican Dishes, Comidas, and Mexicanas. Johnnie's Club at 530 I Street is also visible.
This circa 1920 postcard shows the riverboat Fort Sutter at rest on the Sacramento River. Launched in 1912, the vessel served ably through the interwar period. However, with the advent of World War II, it was placed into service for the United...
This circa 1970 postcard shows the locomotive C.P. Huntington near the Southern Pacific Depot, located at Fifth and I streets. The 4-2-4T, 290-foot engine was built in October 1863 at Cooke Locomotive Works in Paterson, New Jersey. It ceased...
This circa 1930 postcard shows the room in which Leland Stanford, Jr., was born, in May 1864. While on tour in Europe, in 1884, the boy came down with typhoid fever. He came under the care of Catholic nuns, but died in Florence, Italy, on March...
This circa 1975 postcard shows a street tram on K Street, between Eleventh and Twelfth streets. The pictured tram -- a rubber-tired, gasoline-powered replica of the area's old-time streetcars -- was part of a group that was placed within the K...
This circa 1915 image shows a crowd milling about the Northern Electric Railway Depot at 801 J Street and resting at the northeast corner of Eighth and J Streets. Northern Electric started local street car service in 1907, running from the...
This postcard shows riverboats pulling barges down the Sacramento River. At the beginning of the twentieth-century, the standard barge - and particularly those operated by the Sacramento Transportation Company - measured 232 feet in length and...
This circa 1900 postcard shows a Sacramento City welcoming party, hailing down the steamer Edward Everett. Leaving Boston in January 1849, arrived on the Sacramento River in Summer 1849, its party of 170 intent of three things: the discovery of...
This circa 1900 postcard shows a dairy farm in the Sacramento Valley. In 1899, Sacramento County could boast 1,059 dairy farms with Yolo County containing some 918. The printed description on the back of the card reads "In the Sacramento Valley...
This circa 1925 linen-based postcard shows both the interwar idyll of Sacramento and the Capital City's strong recreational and commercial ties to the Sacramento River. In the background, a riverboat -- either the Delta Queen or the Delta King --...
This circa 1910 postcard shows a portion of Capitol Park and its signature fan palms, contrasted with several deciduous trees that line the other side of the street. The postcard also recognizes the Christmas and New Year holidays.
An interior view of A. J. Affleck Drugs, located at 1008 Tenth Street. The picture shows display shelves full of apothecary jars, and three pharmacy workers. A sign on the wall indicates that the store also sold vaccines and serums. In the...
This aerial view of the Capitol was taken circa 1926. It shows some of Capitol Park as well as the adjacent state buildings and some of the surrounding area.
