Sacramento Public Library 150th Special Exhibits
Over the decades, the West has been the repository for the dreams of an astonishing variety of people. It was on the long, dusty roads of the West that these dreams crisscrossed and collided, challenging all who traveled along them and rewarding some while disappointing others.
The journey of many pioneers in the 1850s, lured by the promise for a new life and new-found riches, led to Sacramento and to the vast gold fields beyond.
For its 150th anniversary celebration, the Sacramento Public Library will showcase a number of exhibits and displays of historical interest at the Central Library:
- Antique books and toys
- Sacramento sports memorabilia
- Hats through the decades
- Artifacts from the Central Library archeological dig (in the late 1980s)
- May Woolsey Exhibit - memorabilia of a young girl who lived in Sacramento in the 1860s and 70s.
- Political cartoons of the 1940s, from The Sacramento Bee
- Historical photographs capturing Sacramento's cultural and ethnic diversity
The above exhibits are loaned courtesy of the Sacramento Archives and Museum Collection Center.
- Special exhibit, courtesy of the Sisters of Mercy, celebrating 150 years of community education and healthcare in Sacramento.
- Sacramento Room special display
Many extraordinary items from the special collections of the Sacramento Room in the Central Library will be on exhibit, including the original 1857 Sacramento Public Library Association charter, signed by leading civic luminaries of the day: Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker, C. P. Huntington, Mark Hopkins, and Newton Booth, among others.
