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An office of the Kern County Land Company located near what is now Stockdale Highway and California Avenue

Shows a street in Kernville. Horse and wagon are at center; Kernville Hotel is at right

Caption of picture: "Nutrition information is carried to the far corners of the county." Annette was located near the Kern County line.

Shows librarian Mila De Laveaga using card catalog, with Celina Peters watching; at Kern County Library headquarters, then located in the basement of the Kern County Courthouse, torn down in 1953. A subsequent courthouse was built at the site in…

Shows site of library at Stony Brook Retreat, Kern County's tuberculosis hospital 1928-1968. The facility was one of 11 institutions served by the Kern County Library System at that time

Kern County Library's School Department staff, left to right: Frances Gish (head of School Department), Helen Fauskin, Claudine Powers

Shows Lola Lightner Fry (born 1893), who later married Floyd Busby; mother of Jack Busby, who was born in 1915.

Shows Main Street Market, Spacke's Texaco service station at Curry and G Street, and other Tehachapi businesses after 1952 Kern County earthquake

Shows Margaret Newman, who worked at Kern County Library until 1921, writing at a desk, with card catalog in background at left; exact branch location unknown. Photograph caption: Miss Newman, Branch Head--Headquarters, 1920?

Interior of McKittrick Branch Library, built in 1923; it was located at 2371 Second street, and served the county through the late 1970s.