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Description
1989-1154. In PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM: **F869 S12 H46 1938, v. [#A], pg. [#40] In: [Scenes of Sacramento] [manuscript] / Eugene Walter Hepting. [Sacramento, Calif. : E. Hepting, 1938?], Vol. A, leaf 40. A view from across the street of a building in the process of being torn down; rubble piles up on the sidewalk in front of the building to the right of an arched opening; saw horses with tape between them cordon off the area; 2nd floor has tall rectangular windows; at right edge of photo a section of the building protrudes with round-arched windows on a 3rd floor; on left side of photo another rubble pile stands at the end 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. "corner of 6th & M street. (Northeast corner) Picture taken by Len Kidder in 1922. July. The state fairs were housed here (exhibits) from 1858 until 1883, when the new pavilion at 15th & M street was completed. Building torn down in 1922...... During the flood of Dec. 1861 and Jan. 1862, several hundred families were housed here and in 1903, Weinstock Lubin & Company used the building as their store until their new building was erected, the former having burned down on January 31, 1903... It served in its late years as a boxing arena until it was torn down in 1922."
Type
image
Format
Photographs. Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 photographic print ; 9 1/4 x 11 in.
Identifier
(C)001393458CSL01-Aleph (DRA)VVW-6823
Language
English
Subject
California. State Agricultural Society--Photographs Buildings--California--Sacramento Demolition--California--Sacramento Sacramento (Calif.)--Photographs Photographic prints
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