Big Four Building

Yesterday I went on a return outing to Old Sacramento, a follow-up to my visit to the Crocker Art Museum the previous Friday. The most interesting exhibit at the Crocker was a show of screenprinting from the Royal Chicano Air Force which is an art collective from Sacramento prominent in the 1970s and 1980s. When I walked back via Old Sacramento I noticed that the Sacramento History Museum had another exhibit on the RCAF that was closing soon, so I decided to come back to Old Sacramento yesterday to see that exhibit and do another sketch. This is the so-called Big Four Building, which is the hardware store where the founders of the Central Pacific Railroad initially got extremely wealthy selling goods to Gold Rush miners. The founders were known as the Big Four, and were Collis Huntington, Mark Hopkins Jr., Leland Stanford, and Charles Crocker.