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Sacramento City, K Street, from Masonic Hall – Antique Photo Print

Sacramento City, K Street, from Masonic Hall, [published 1866] — historic photograph
Sacramento City, K Street, from Masonic Hall, [published 1866]. Historic photograph from the Freemasons collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: Sacramento City, K Street, from Masonic Hall, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Looking down K Street in Sacramento from the Masonic Hall, this albumen print records a central downtown thoroughfare in the young state capital during the 1860s. Sacramento had become California's capital in 1854, and K Street was one of its main commercial streets, where shops, offices, and the wagons and pedestrians that moved goods through the city would have crowded the roadway. The Library holds only one half of a stereographic pair, issued in the *Gems of California Scenery* series as number 1067, so the companion view is not part of this record. Masonic lodges were common civic anchors in nineteenth-century California towns, and the building's vantage point gives this view its particular interest.

Created / published[published 1866]
Medium1 photographic print : half stereograph, albumen.
GenreStereographs 1860-1870.Albumen prints 1860-1870.
NotesThe Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 1067. LOT subdivision subject: Sacramento. This record contains unverified old data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan2,365 × 2,250 px · prints to 8 × 8 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-115589

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