Founded in 1876 by the Brothers of the Christian Schools at the southwest corner of Twelfth and K Streets, Christian Brothers School has held subsequent locations at Twenty-First and Broadway, and 4315 Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard. After a...
This circa 1946 photograph shows members of the Sacramento City Council posed within Council Chambers. Left to right are Paul Taylor, Roy J. Nielson, George F. Watrus, Fred W. Arnold, City Clerk Harry Denton, George Klump, City Manager Bartley...
Weeping willows accent this circa 1929 photograph in Southside Park, located at Seventh and V Streets. What was once known as the Seventh Street Slough was dredged in the summer of 1911 to form a lake and two islands. The dredged material was...
This January 1997 photograph captures a torrent of water innundating Negro Bar along the American River. By January 3, the entirety of the 23-mile-long American River Parkway had been submerged by way of the rain from New Year's storms, with the...
Aerial view of downtown Sacramento, the State Capitol, and surrounding areas taken in 1954. Compare the sprawling developments between this photo and previous years.
This circa 1958 sketch provides a view of the would be Highlands High School. It was designed by firm of Starks, Jozens and Nacht offers a black and white look at the surrounding area before development. Located at Don Julio Boulevard and Guthrie...
This aerial view of Sutter's Fort circa 1937 clearly shows the layout of the compound as well as the surrounding area. Neatly trimmed gardens surround the Fort, which is located on Twenty-Seventh and L Streets.
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.
As viewed from the south, this circa 1927 photograph shows the manicured splendor of grounds surrounding Sacramento's water filtration plant. Utilizing rapid sand filtration, the facility started pumping purified water into city mains on January...
Taken in the Elks Club, this is a formal posed group photograph of the installation team of the B.P.O.E. The eight members are identified as follows. Back Row: Paul Cruise, Grand Lecturing Knight. Arthur L. Case, Grand Chaplain. Carl Daseking,...
Waldo E. Julian's residence, at 1618 M Street, is the focus of this circa 1900 photograph. The sidewalk along the south side of M Street, between Sixteenth and Seventeenth streets, is made of wood planks, and a small girl stands in front of the...
A line of Folsom Prison inmates make their way toward the lower yard rock quarry in this circa 1910 photograph. Prisoners who worked the quarries toiled daily for seven-and-a-half hours and without a lunch. Starting in 1884, the prison resolved...
Taken from Tenth Street, between L and N Streets, this September 9, 1895, photograph reveals an illuminated California State Capitol building. The building and surrounding trees are dressed in lights while a sign declaring the greatness of the...
Shown in circa 1945 is the North Sacramento viaduct. Built in 1942, the 847,000 dollar project enabled motorists to avoid seasonal flooding and traverse the lowlands north of the American River, and surrounding Sacramento Northern and Western...
Originally constructed in 1854, and then rebuilt in 1875 was the brick, three-story Western Hotel at 215 K Street. Set in a Sacramento evening, this postcard shows the bustle surrounding the business which had a K Street frontage of 100 feet and a...
This circa 1920 postcard reveals a tree-shrouded stretch of H Street. Near this time, the deputy State Forester of California, Alexander Dodge, remarked, in the July 24, 1929, Sacramento Bee, at "how dependent Sacramento is upon her surrounding...
This circa 1915 postcard shows a dove in release from a disembodied hand. Surrounding the image are floral accents and the message: "Greetings from Sacramento, Cal."
This cargo ship is shown docked at the Port of Sacramento in this circa 1965 postcard. Completed just two years earlier, in 1963, the port was the terminus of a deep water channel that stretched southwesterly 43 miles to Suisun Bay, and its...
This circa 1930 linen postcard provides a rendering of cows in the vicinity of Elk Grove, located 9 miles south of Sacramento. While a strong industry for the infant township, farmers from surrounding communities complained that horses and cattle...
In 1961, the State Highway Commission announced its plans for the completion of Interstate 5, extending from Mexico to the Canadian border. The city council unanimously supported putting the freeway on the Sacramento side of the river, thus wiping...
