The Alhambra Theatre in Sacramento.

Source: Sacramento Archives and Museum Collection Center (2001/ x-03/ 007)

Barbara Covington was born on February 16, 1924 in Sacramento. Her mother's family came to Oroville, California in the 1870s. Her father James William Covington had been president of the NAACP in Sacramento in the 1920s, but died when Covington was 3-1/2 years old. Covington moved with . . .

Sacramento's Barbara Covington and Jeroline Green at a Halloween dance. Both worked at McClellan Air Force Base during the war.

Source: Barbara Perkins

Dressing up was hard to do when shoes were made of cardboard and came in only a few colors.

There was wonderful patriotism and people willing to fight.

A woman listens to the radio in her boardinghouse room. January 1943. For those back home, the radio proved the best source for news on the war.

Source: Library of Congress (LC-USW3- 038331-E)

Jeroline Green was born and raised in Coffeyville, Kansas. After high school, she enrolled in junior college for a time, and in the summer of 1943, decided to visit a friend who was living in Sacramento. She arrived in August, intending to stay for a few weeks. Instead, she quickly . . .

McClellan kept her busy but she knew it mattered to getting the war over.

Portrait of Walter Thompson and Jeroline Green.

Source: Walter Thompson

Signing up for sugar and food rationing in Taos, New Mexico. February 1943.

Source: Library of Congress (LC-USW3-019115-C)

Japanese-American evacuees, under the watchful eye of U.S. soldiers, wait outside trains at Santa Anita Assembly Center. April 5, 1942.

Source: National Archives (WC-0780)

Under the watchful eye of the U.S. Army, Japanese-Americans are evacuated from Salinas, California. May 1942.

Source: Library of Congress (LC-USF34-072513-D)

A notice posted at 9th and K Streets in Sacramento announces evacuation orders for all Japanese-Americans. May 8, 1942.

Source: Sacramento Archives and Museum Collection Center (85-24-1864)

Aerial of downtown Sacramento, including the Capitol building, ca. 1940.

Source: Sacramento Archives and Museum Collection Center (83-01-111)

A December 19, 1944 Sacramento Bee headline reads: "Germans Slash 20 Miles Into Belgium; Yanks Cross Roer."

Source: The Sacramento Bee

A Sacramento Bee headline announces German surrender, May 7, 1945.

Source: The Sacramento Bee

A Sacramento Bee headline on August 15, 1945 reads: "Japanese War Ends."? "M'Arthur is to rule, accept capitulation."?

Source: The Sacramento Bee

Outside Kress five and dime in Sacramento, pedestrians and cars crowd the street. 1945

Source: Sacramento Archives and Museum Collection Center (2001-x-03-125)

Sacramento Memorial Auditorium, ca. 1940.

Source: Sacramento Archives and Museum Collection Center (83/01/7288)

The dome of the State Capitol rises above a tree lined street in Sacramento.

Source: Sacramento Archives and Museum Collection Center (83-01-10,436)