This stone gravestone reads: R.M Daniels. Died Feb. 23, 1876 aged 26 y[rs] The stone has a motif of clasped hands at the top and some small illegible carving below the inscription. It has been badly damaged: a diagonal break divides the stone...
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 1900 photograph shows several inmates at work in one of Folsom Prison’s lower yard quarry. A derrick is at the ready for lifting extracted rock. To the lower-right of the photograph is a portion the prison’s electric-powered rock...
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...
San Juan Union High School is located at 7551 Greenback Lane in Citrus Heights, California. Founded in 1913, it stands as Sacramento County’s second oldest high school behind that of Sacramento High School, established in 1856. The school’s...
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...
San Juan Union High School is located at 7551 Greenback Lane in Citrus Heights, California. Founded in 1913, it stands as Sacramento County’s second oldest high school behind that of Sacramento High School, established in 1856. The school’s...
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...
A canny businessman and idealistic philanthropist, David Lubin and his brother-in-law Harris Weinstock made Weinstock-Lubin the Sacramento area’s best-known and most popular mercantile establishment for over a century. By the time of his death in...
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 September 3, 1931, photograph reveals the entrance to Sacred Heart Catholic Church at 3860 J Street. Recessed and hewn from terra cotta and cast stone, the Romanesque-style arch contains sculpted images of Jesus Christ, the Virgin Mary and...
This circa 1900 photograph shows a gathering crowd at the entrance to the Westminster Presbyterian Church at Sixth and L Streets. Built in 1867, the wooden structure had a frontage of 38 feet and a depth of 60 with a cost eclipsing 10,000...
This circa 1929 photograph shows the facade of the Van Voorhies-Phinney saddlery building on 322-324 J Street. Although the company descends from the R. Stone and Company, which was established in 1850, it didn’t hit its stride until 1869, when...
This circa 1925 photograph shows a relatively new Scottish Rite Temple at the southwest corner of Twenty-Eighth and L Streets. Placed on a 90 by 160 foot lot, the structure was built of brick, stone and concrete in 1916/17 for a cost of 125,000...
This 1960 photograph of J Street shows the Ramona Garage at 606 J Street, the Argentina Tavern at 610 J Street, and the Rancho Grande Restaurant at 612 J Street. The Argentina, in operation since the mid-1940s, is set within the venerable stone...
The corner of Fourteenth and N Streets is dominated by the large multi-family dwelling shown here in a photograph taken circa 1925. The brick and rough stone entrance, corner window nooks and decorative support beams contrast with the rest of the...
