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Employees of the Mosquito Abatement District, in front of their Bakersfield building

Collection of tourist cabins; shows signs, rates, cabins, tent, and picnic tables; located at Roberts Lane and North Chester Avenue

Cast of film "Virginia City" takes the train to Bakersfield to take a break in Kern county, although the film was actually shot in Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties; greeted by large crowd at train station

Front row, left to right: Clement "Clemie" Lilburn (secretary), librarian Mila De Laveaga, librarian Miss Eleanor Wilson; second row, Miss Betty Jo Peterson, Miss Mary Corbitt, Lois Rainey; five rows back, aisle seat, Miss Irene Branham, Children's…

A Bakersfield group calling themselves the Foxtail Rangers removed the bark from the Lebec Oak in 1889 and found the previously-obscured inscription regarding the death of Peter Lebec. In 1890 they found a body,assumed to be Peter Lebec, in the same…

Depicts Frederick Lee Minter, born 1949, son of Vera Minter, dressed in stylized American Indian costume, with toy wagon

View of Garces circle, with statue of Father Garces, early Catholic missionary and Franciscan priest; from the collection of Harlan Curnow

Left to right: George Whitaker, attorney; Austin Foster Stoner (1862-1915); Mr. Herpel. From the collection of Gaye Lenahan, great-granddaughter of Austin Foster Stoner.

Caption on back of photo states that Glenn Burd was an employee of Richfield service station

View of railroad car sitting on the track at Bakersfield depot