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Description
1989-1138. In: [Scenes of Sacramento] [manuscript] / Eugene Walter Hepting. [Sacramento, Calif. : E. Hepting, 1938?], vol. A, leaf [8] A night time view of a building from its right corner; two floors topped by an entablature with a balustrade; on 1st floor large pillasters stand on the sidewalk & between each one glass display cases can be seen; 2nd floor consists of a row of tall rectangular windows which are situated above the spaces between the 1st floor pillasters; decorative bunting with U.S. flags decorate each of the pillasters on 1st & 2nd floors as well as the spaces below the 2nd floor windows; strings of lights decorate each 2nd floor window and on the 1st floor bunting. 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 during the N.S.G.W. Admission Day parade of 1905. History of the third store:...February 29th, 1904, the new store of Weinstock Lubin & Company opened at the old site of 4th & Kay street. It is a beautiful building embodying all the new ideas in business buildings...This store closed its doors in 1934[24?]. Grove L. Johnson, old-time friend of the founders of the store, locked the doors of the store.....in 1924. Mr. Johnson died two years later, in 1926."
Type
image
Format
Photographs. Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 photographic print ; 9 1/8 x 11 in.
Identifier
(C)001393311CSL01-Aleph (DRA)VVW-6674
Language
English
Subject
Weinstock's (Firm)--Photographs Celebrations--California--Sacramento Department stores--California--Sacramento Sacramento (Calif.)--Photographs Photographic prints Night photographs
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