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Shows airplane marked "Kern County Air Service, Amos Collins, Pilot." Air mail service to Kern County began in 1927.

Kern County Courthouse, built 1911, located at Truxtun and Chester. It was torn down in 1953 and another courts building constructed on the site.

Shows staff and customers at food stand, buildings, at old fairgrounds on North Chester Avenue, later superceded by Kern County fairgrounds at P Street

Front view of Kern County Jail, which once stood on Truxtun Avenue. The building also housed a branch of the Kern County Library. Mr. Fay D. Jones was in charge of the library.

Kern County Jail, with three men in front of building; this jail was located at the corner of 16th and Eye Streets and was in use between May 1894 and December 1915

Kern County Land Company buildings; larger structure is probably a bunkhouse, as it is almost identical to the company's bunkhouse at Poso Ranch; facility was located Southwest of Bakersfield

Children, with adult, beside bookmobile stopping at Red Rock School

Group picture of students at Bakersfield High School, then known as Kern County Union High School. Pennants from 1918 hang on walls. Man seated at large desk in foreground is probably Professor Wilcox or Professor Dunn.

Kern County General Hospital on Flower Street, built in 1925; by 1981 it was being referred to as Kern Medical Center

Shows Erma Morris, Branch Librarian, at open house of Kern General Hospital Library, at location later known as Kern Medical Center