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Description
This graphically-enhanced promotional photograph of the proposed Port of Sacramento was taken in 1951. It faces east, showing both West Sacramento in the foreground and, in the distance, Sacramento proper. Plans for a freshwater shipping channel in the Sacramento area predate the First World War. One idea, in 1911, called for the channel to pass through what would become William Land Park. The idyllic stature that the Land Park area would go on to enjoy was once commonplace at Lake Washington, shown at the bottom of the photograph. Going back into the nineteenth-century, fishing, sailing, picnicking—even a dance hall – could be found at the lake.
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