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Title	Promotional Photograph for Port of Sacramento
Date	1951
Creator	Clarence Burkett
Description	This graphically-enhanced promotional photograph of the proposed Port of Sacramento was taken in 1951. It faces east, showing both West Sacramento in the foreground and, in the distance, Sacramento proper. Plans for a freshwater shipping channel in the Sacramento area predate the First World War. One idea, in 1911, called for the channel to pass through what would become William Land Park. The idyllic stature that the Land Park area would go on to enjoy was once commonplace at Lake Washington, shown at the bottom of the photograph. Going back into the nineteenth-century, fishing, sailing, picnicking—even a dance hall – could be found at the lake.
Format	8 in. x 10 in.; b&w
Holding Institution	Sacramento Room, Sacramento Public Library
Rights	This image may be protected by Copyright Law (Title 17 U.S.C.). Copyright restrictions applying to the reproduction and use of this image are available from the Sacramento Public Library.
Street/Neighborhood	Harbor Blvd
City/County	West Sacramento
Subjects	Aerial Views Rivers Sacramento River Lakes Maps Harbors
Collection	Sacramento Room Photograph Collection
Identifying Number	790