Pictured in 1930 is a young woman driving a carriage, pulled by two Hackney stallions. The driver is wearing a cloche hat. In the rear of the carriage is a coachman wearing a top hat.
A class stands posed for the camera in this late 1920s photograph. Several children are wearing coats or sweaters and three girls in the front row are wearing long striped socks. One little girl in the back row holds out the edge of a flag that...
California Middle School is located at 1600 Vallejo Way in Sacramento, California. Designed by Sacramento architecture luminary Harry Devine and built at a cost of $300,000, the structure opened in November 1933 with an enrollment of 738 pupils...
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...
Throngs of spectators watch six riders pass by on their horses. All six men are dressed in western-style clothing, one wearing heavy woolen chaps, and they ride within the rail-line tracks along the parade route.
This photograph of the California State Capitol's east side was taken from Capitol Park on August 24, 1929, just months prior to the commencement of the Great Depression. Note the two boys seated on the right, with one holding an opened brochure...
The Tannhauser Beer Garden is the subject of this circa 1934 photograph. The President of the Tannhauser Brewing Company, William Dreher, stands behind the bar wearing a bowtie and glasses. The garden, located on 549 North Sixteenth Street, was...
A class picture - perhaps the new graduates - at Marshall School. Thirty-nine students pose in three rows for the photographer. A boy in the back row hold up an American flag. All the students are wearing a rosette with long trailing ribbons.
This photograph, taken in 1950, shows the new Edmonds Field, reopened in March of 1949. Bill Avila is shown in the foreground, wearing a white shirt. Avila was a scout for the Philadelphia Phillies and wrote a Bushers Column for the Sacramento...
A parade featuring uniformed participants wearing police shields moves along K Street from Eighth to Tenth. The front line marchers all wear different outfits, including a cadet uniform, and are followed by a uniformed marching band. Throngs of...
Soldiers wearing doughboy hats and traditional caps march with sailors down K Street at Ninth during this 1920 parade as a color guard leads the way. Row upon row of marching military personnel fill the street and a very large crowd of spectators...
This circa 1924 parade along K Street at Ninth is pictured in this photograph. A uniformed marching band is followed by men in street clothes wearing uniform caps and joined by an occasional child. A large crowd of spectators lines the street and...
Photograph, taken April 7, 1958, of recreational basketball teams practicing in the old Sacramento High School Girls' Gymnasium, now demolished. One team is wearing jerseys of Household Finance. In the background, young men can be seen playing...
Men and women march up K Street carrying signs (one reads ""we want"") waving flags, and wearing armbands. Pedestrians on the sidewalks have stopped to watch. Businesses in view include: Arden's (700 K St.); Sontag Drug Store (714 K St.); Dr....
Photograph taken in 1931 captures the football team at Sacramento High School (2315 Thirty-fourth Street). In the front row, third from left is Frank Boterro (later an attorney), fifth from the right is Bill Sims, later an all-American at Stanford...
This photograph of the famed Sacramento Police Juniors City League baseball team was taken in circa 1933. In 1931, the team won 15 straight games, going on to become Sacramento rural league champions. Sponsored by the Sacramento Police...
Posed in their uniforms with bats, balls, and gloves, the Sacramento Junior American Legion Team - George Manhart Post 391 - is assembled on a bench in Oak Park for a team picture in 1931. Standing with the team is a suited gentleman in a boater...
Photograph taken August, 1942, of the quality control laboratory at Bercut-Richards Packing Company. An unidentified man and woman wearing laboratory coats and peering into microscopes occupy a table beneath rows of beakers, cannisters, bottles...
Photograph taken in August, 1942, of a young woman, wearing high heels and standing on a ladder, picking peaches. The likelihood of this particular shot being posed is confirmed by the identity of the lady on the ladder, an office worker for the...
Shown on a light-colored horse and wearing western-style clothing Sheriff Don Cox looks directly into the camera in this circa 1935 photograph. The ribbon he wears indicates that he is a parade "Marshall", one of many times he would serve in that...
