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Description
1989-1137. In: [Scenes of Sacramento] [manuscript] / Eugene Walter Hepting. [Sacramento, Calif. : E. Hepting, 1938?], vol. A, leaf [6]. In the foreground is a small circular garden, planted within a lawn area with fir, decidous, palm, etc. trees; behind this area is an L-shaped building,most of which is behind the trees; on the right is the end of the building with a wooden steeple on the left side of it; a large blind arch on the end extends below the roofline and beneath this wooden blind arch is a painted heraldic image; below the painting is a horizontal row of square windows, and below this are three gothic blind arches; at the corner of the L is a glass dome with an antenna at its point. Walter Hepting was born in Sacramento (father was from Switzerland, mother from Germany). Worked for the State Treasurer's Office. Was amateur historian, collected old photographs and images of Sacramento. "Picture taken at 14th & N street, showing the south end and rear of the building. This building was erected about 1884 and torn down in 1908. The building was 400 feet square, and cost, with furnishings, was about $115,000. At that time it was the largest public building in the state."
Type
image
Format
Photographs. Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 photographic print ; 8 1/2 x 10 1/2 in.
Identifier
(C)001393309CSL01-Aleph (DRA)VVW-6672
Language
English
Subject
California. State Agricultural Society--Photographs Buildings--California--Sacramento Sacramento (Calif.)--Photographs
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