This July 18, 1943, photograph shows McClellan baseball player Al Androvich posing upon a baseball bat. To start the second half of a season that McClellan had won the first half of, the Sacramento team faced Fresno's Hammer Field on this date,...
Taken in circa 1922, this photograph shows Sacramento's Pacific Coast Championship American Legion basketball team. Standing to the left is future Sacramento Solon and Washington Senator Earl McNeely. McNeely, playing guard for the American...
Pictured in 1922 are the pacific coast champion American Legion basketball team from Sacramento. After sealing up the regional title in February, the team was sent to Kansas City for the Amatuer Athletic Union championships. They lost in the...
Shown on May 31, 1930, several cloche-topped female archers participate in the Western Archery Association’s first annual tournament at William Land Park. The event included roughly 100 archers from throughout the American West. Sacramento’s...
Photographed on May 31, 1930, several male archers compete at William Land Park in the Western Archery Association’s first annual tournament. The Santa Barbara Archery Club claimed the men’s team title while Clinton Douglas of Los Angeles won...
The Sacramento Lodge No. 6 B.P.O.E. (Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks) Escort Team takes a moment out of a formal dinner to pose for a photograph. Two tables of men and women pose for the camera.
This 1897 portrait shows the Old Leakers Baseball Club, who played from 1897 to 1899 at both Thirteenth and S streets and Snowflake Park, at Twentieth and E streets. A young boy, Joe Murphy, is identified as the team mascot. The team manager sits...
Photograph, taken in 1950, of the BE baseball team. In the front row, second from left, is Maurice Dutra; last on the right is Glen Smith. In the top row, last on the right is Joe Duarte; second from right is Jimmy Herrera; third from right is...
Taken in 1926/27 is this photograph of the service station of Bobby Schang and Lloyd Jones at the corner of Twelfth and C. Schang was a player for the Sacramento Senators baseball team, having his best year in 1924 as he hit .348 in 115 games. He...
The western leg of racetrack at the California State Fair is also a place of judgment as participants parade their livestock in this 1930s photograph. A team of horses in the center of the photograph is pulling a wagon labeled Meadow View Stock...
Chris Fulster’s Cottage Cheese business at 2520 Y Street is captured in this circa 1937 photograph. A children, dressed in summer clothing, stand at either side of the store entrance and roses line a walkway that leads to the doorway. A native...
The Christian Brothers High School baseball team poses in April 1933. During the 1933 season, lost only to the St. Mary's College freshman, also know as the Gael Babes. Prey included Sacramento High School and Grant Union High School. Pictured,...
Pictured in early 1938 is the corner of Broadway and Land Park Drive. By November of the same year, the space would be home to the 200,000 dollar Tower Theater. Visible are billboards; one implores the use of Sacramento for conventions while the...
At rest near the Southern Pacific Steamer Terminal, the 10-member Sacramento Junior College team sits with oars upraised in a large sweep boat. There are two more crewmen, one sitting in the stern facing the rowers and a coxswain in the bow...
Shown before the California State Capitol building on November 12, 1934, is the 21-member drum and bugle corps, members, auxillary and the auzillary drill team of Sacramento Chapter Number Six of the Disabled American Veterans of the World War. ...
This 1920 portrait shows a women's basketball team. The initials E.P.O.R. are inscribed on a basketball held by a young woman seated on a chair in the center of the portrait.
This July 1947 photograph shows busy box offices at the entrance to Edmonds Field at 1100 Broadway. Home to the Sacramento Solons baseball team, the stadium was built in 1922 as Moreing Field, named after team owner Lew Moreing. The stadium was...
Adorned with striped bandanas, middies and bloomers, young women basketballers pose for a team photograph in 1925, just three decades after the sport's invention in Springfield, Massachusetts, by James Naismith.
This black and white photograph, taken circa 1925, depicts a girl's basketball team, identified as being from the YWCA. The team members wear middy top and bloomer-style gym clothing from the period.
