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- Collection: Kern County Local History Photograph Collection
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Electric Water Company, repair and plumbing shops
Repair and plumbing shops of Electric Water Company in foreground; note power lines with insulators
Electric Water Company, Steam Engine # 4
Shows laborer with steam engine
Electric Water Company Substation
Substation of Kern county's Electric Water Company
Electric Water Company, Switch Board # 4
Shows Electric Water Company switch board
Electric Water Company tank house
Shows water tower structure used to house Electric Water Company's water tank; many farmers used to have their own tank houses
Electric Water Company, testing well at Station # 5
Electric Water Company testing well connected to Station number 5 building
Electric Water Company, transformers and steam engine # 2
Shows equipment used by Electric Water Company
Elks Club group in Bakersfield
Members of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks shown near houses in Bakersfield; from collection of Gaye Lenahan
Emerson School, interior
Students in classroom, believed to be at Emerson School, with teacher.Girl sitting in front row, with white dress, is Doris Stoner, born July 1895, daughter of Austin Foster T. Stoner. Doris Stoner is the great-aunt of Gaye Lenahan, who donated…
Employees of Bakersfield Iron Works
Top row, left to right: Miss Hughes, stenographer, and Irma Cook, Assistant. Middle row: H.H. Wilson, bookkeeper; William W. Laidley, clerk (later became a lawyer, married Viola Stoner in 1907); unknown; Harry D. Headen, Cost Clerk. Front row: H.…