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Title
Northwest corner of 5th & J street
Contributor
Hepting, Eugene Walter, 1895-1971
Date Created and/or Issued
1938
Publication Information
1938
Contributing Institution
California State Library
Collection
California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information
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Description
View 1 (1989-1281). -- view 2 (1989-1282).
In PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM: **F869 S12 H46 1938, v. [#C], pg. [#35]
In: [Scenes of Sacramento] [manuscript] / Eugene Walter Hepting. [Sacramento, Calif. : E. Hepting, 1938?], Vol. C, leaf 35.
Corner view of an elaborately decorated 3 story building; at street level on short side is the "Capital Liquor Co." identified on the building at top of 1st floor; on long side are 10 entrances or 3/4 length windows separated by pillasters; on second floor 5 tall arched windows on short side and about 10 on long side; 3rd story has an equal number of tall round arched windows; on both floors decorative notchings and spiral elements decorate facade; balconies are in front of each window; a roof comb on top of roof on short side with balustrate that runs around the top of the building.
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.
"Old 'Sacramento Bank' building, erected in the year 1869." "Old Sacramento Bank building, 'Old Capital City Wheelman Club', located on the 3rd floor from 1907 until about 1930."
Type
image
Format
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent
2 photographic prints ; 2 3/4 x 4 1/2 in.
Identifier
(C)001392982CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVW-6331
Language
English
Subject
Banks--California--Sacramento
Stores & shops--California--Sacramento
Liquor stores--California--Sacramento
Sacramento (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Photograph albums
Place
California
Sacramento
Sacramento (Calif.)

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