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A woman, dressed in Gold Rush era costume, holds a shotgun as she poses upon one of the cannons in Sutter's Fort, located at Twenty-Seventh and L Streets. The occasion was part of the city's 1939 "Golden Empire" Centennial.
Harold McCurry of McCurry Foto Company proposed the event to compete with San Francisco's Golden Gate International Exhibition and representatives of sixty of Sacramento's fraternal organizations agreed upon the program on January 14, 1938. The Centennial events began on February 18, 1939 and ran through the California State Fair in September.
Reenactors such as the woman in this photo were a central part of the centennial celebration and many of the events revolved around impersonators of figures such as John Sutter and James Marshall.
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