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Mariella Laidley, age 7, is in front row, fifth from left, wearing plaid dress. Mariella was the daughter of Bakersfield lawyer William W. Laidley and Viola Stoner Laidley. From the collection of Gaye Lenahan, daughter of Mariella Laidley.

A popular, privately-owned and operated maternity hospital, run by Minnie Freise--a World War I nurse--from 1935 to 1953; it continued as a maternity home through 1960, served as a nursing home until mid-1970s, and was re-opened as a women's and…

5-ton steam locomotive used in the Yellow Aster Mine in the early 1900s; gift of Big Butte Mining Co. in 1956. Photo shows locomotive sitting in museum yard at Randsburg

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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…