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...
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...
Posed next to a coach is a group of men with instruments (fiddle, banjo, flute, guitar). Two men sit on the driver's seat and three more sit inside the coach. A sign on the coach reads, "Wells, Fargo & Co. U.S. Mail Clear Lake and Ukiah [North]."
Posed next to a coach is a group of men with instruments (fiddle, banjo, flute, guitar). Two men sit on the driver's seat and three more sit inside the coach. A sign on the coach reads, "Wells, Fargo & Co. U.S. Mail Clear Lake and Ukiah [North]."
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...
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 circa 1940 photograph captures a picnic at Capitol Park. Several well-dressed people sit at tables surrounded by an assortment of both temperate and tropical flora.
This 1873 photograph shows the prime facilities of the Central Pacific Railroad shops. In the foreground is the 90 by 230-foot car building shop. To the left of it is the 60 by 125-foot blacksmith shop. Behind both is the cabinet shop, boasting...
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...
Pictured on July 15, 1947, is a meeting of the Sacramento Credit Women’s Breakfast Club. Members sit at a u-shaped banquet table, looking toward the camera. Born out of a desire for credit office workers to organize and socialize, the...
Photograph, taken circa 1960, of the Hotel Del Monte, located at 114-120 I Street. Four men sit idly on the rough steps of the old structure as another approaches the entrance.
The north side of Second Street, between K and L Streets, is the subject of this circa 1960 photograph. The La Favorita Cafe at 1111 Second Street, the Zamora Rooms at 1113 Second Street, and West Hotel at 1115 Second Street all sit to the right...
As viewed from the south, in circa 1930, is the recently-completed Sacramento water filtration plant. In the foreground is the sedimentation basin while, to the left, is the pumping station. It was concluded, in late 1926, by both the city and...
In this photograph, taken on September 12, 1932, at Grant Union High School, the student body poses around the flagpole, girls at the left and boys to the right. In front of them sit seven men, and numerous other people stand under the eves of the...
The Del Paso Country Club's new swimming pool is the subject of this August 13, 1929, photograph. The pool was christened on June 23 with a series of amateur water races, including freestyle, diving, and back stroke. The event proved the crescendo...
Pictured in 1892 is the Folsom State Prison mess hall. Watermelons, stuck with spoons, await inmates. A guard stands near a back door and a smattering of prisoners sit around the room. Due to a 450-acre section of well-irrigated, arable land...
