Sacramento Collection (page 2)

Destitute family. American River camp, Sacramento, California. Five children, aged two to seventeen years. Date 1936 Nov

California. San Francisco and Sacramento. San Francisco, gen
The City of San Francisco was in the grip of gold fever in the 1850s and was growing in population by the day, as many as 2, 000 immigrants were arriving by sea each day

Kanaha Bay, the Californian gold district. A sketch of the tributary of the Sacramento river where gold was first found in 1852

Winter in the Californian Mountains, 1853
Engraving showing two gold-miners returning to their hut with provisions, during the particularly harsh winter of 1852-3. Over 20 feet of snow fell on the mountains of California

California, Sacramento. General View of Sacramento
The beginnings of the City of Sacramento have been laid out in a grid, with wide avenues. The view is from the river, where sailing boats and a paddle steamer are at anchor

USA Sacramento
Street scene : traffic halts to allow a railway train to pass

Sacramento Circa 1840
Settled in 1839 by John Sutter during the California Gold Rush, Sacramento rapidly became an important trading centre, and was made State Capital in 1854

Pony Express Starting
Starting from Sacramento

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