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Title
Original site of W.P.Fuller Paint Co., "28" Kay Street (49'er cafe)
Contributor
Hepting, Eugene Walter, 1895-1971
Date Created and/or Issued
1938
Contributing Institution
California State Library
Collection
California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information
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Description
1989-1182.
In: [Scenes of Sacramento] [manuscript] / Eugene Walter Hepting. [Sacramento, Calif. : E. Hepting, 1938?], Vol. C, leaf 2.
Close-up view of three buildings right next to each other; on the left side is a dark building with a steeple-like element on top next to a horizontal roof with three tall windows on the second floor& balcony outside second floor;middle building is light colored with "49'er Cafe on bottom as well as "Rooms" on first floor with three tall windows on second floor; building on right is one-storey with "Miller's Sheet Metal Works" on two windows flanking front door.
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.
"'28' Kay street. Above building erected in 1852, immediately after the fire of Nov 2nd, 1852.The first business was Rivett & Co., 'Upholsters, Painters & Paperhangers' 28' Kay st. (Now 122 K), established as Rivett & Coates, in Dec. of 1849. changed to Rivett & Heath, Sept. 1851,,(that name can still be seen on the building)."
Type
image
Format
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 photographic print ; 2 5/8 x 4 3/8 in.
Identifier
(C)001392617CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVW-5962
Language
English
Subject
Buildings--California--Sacramento
Cafes--California--Sacramento
Sacramento (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Photograph albums
Place
California
Sacramento
Sacramento (Calif.)

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