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This photographic album is from the Betty Jane Powell family papers (MC 25). Created, arranged, and annotated by Powell’s uncle, Hiram Paul Albert, it provides a panoramic window into both the life of Albert and the transformation of Sacramento during the early twentieth-century. Born on March 11, 1893, Albert’s family moved from Kansas to Sacramento when he was 11-years-old. He was a 1913 graduate of Sacramento High School.
Initial images of note document his participation in the First World War, first with his training at Fort Lewis, Washington, then as an artillery man in the Ninety-First Infantry Division, and then his eventual participation in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive of late-1918, during which he was injured.
Upon returning from France in 1919, Albert spent a short period at Sacramento Junior College. For nearly five decades to follow, he worked as an automobile mechanic with Sacramento’s Universal Motor Company, on 1520 K Street, the North Sacramento Garage, on 1620 Del Paso Boulevard, and Sacramento’s Ford Motor Company 1908 M Street. He spent the last 10 years of his work life as a custodian at Sacramento High School.
He died on June 17, 1965, at his 3094 Twenty-Fourth Street home, and was interred at Sacramento’s East Lawn Cemetery. He was survived by his wife, Kathryn Albert, nee Conover, who died on December 10, 1988.
Notable natural features within the album are the American River, Cosumnes River, Feather River, Klamath River, Sacramento River, and Yuba River; Mount Shasta, and Mount Tallac; Mutton Canyon, Putah Creek Canyon, Big Silver Gorge, Bear Valley, and Feather River Canyon; American Lake (Washington State), Lake Audrin, Clear Lake, Echo Lake, Donner Lake, Lake Tahoe, and Wright’s Lake; Railroad Slough and Brannan (sic) Bannon Slough; Emigrant Gap, Lover’s Leap, Emerald Bay, Pilot Creek, and Yerba Buena Island; and Salmon Falls and Bridal Veil Falls.
Notable community events include 1922’s Days of ’49, Charles Lindbergh and the “Spirit of St. Louis’s” 1927 visit to Mather Field, and 1939’s Golden Gate International Exposition.
Important architectural/landscape features include Sutter’s Fort; McKinley Park, Boulevard Park, and Curtis Park; the Tallac Hotel, Lake Spaulding Dam, Treasure Island, I Street Bridge, Bay Bridge, Big Silver Campground, Ice House Campground, and the Yolo Causeway. The cities of Sacramento, San Francisco, Virginia City, Colorado Springs, Folsom, Auburn, Stockton, Colfax, Camino, Grass Valley, Towle, Kyburz, Strawberry, Belden, Cotati, Hamburg are also mentioned throughout.
Airplanes Airports Artillery Auburn, California Automobiles Automobile Dealerships Automobile Racing Automobile Repair Business Enterprises Bridges Camps and Resorts Causeways Children Dams Fair Oaks, California Festivals and Celebrations Firearms Fishing Hotels and Motels Hunting Islands Lakes Military Facilities Military Personnel Pets Portraits Rivers Street Scenes Uniforms World War, 1914-1918
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