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Shows interior of original Taft Library, built about 1919,located on North Street. It was replaced in 1955 by a library on Emmons Park Drive.

Pulling over an old wooden oil derrick, with other wooden derricks in background; Kern River oil field

September 30, 1932, Santa Fe's Engine 3834 was derailed and completely buried in a flash flood near Woodford Station and Caliente, killing 19 people, at the junction of Tehachapi and Caliente creeks. After it was found weeks later, workers and…

Shows destruction of Radio Electric dealer's brick building in Tehachapi after 1952 earthquake; from Clyde Johnson's collection

Third Beale Memorial Library building, opened in 1988, shown after a rare snowfall; located at corner of 701 Truxtun Avenue, at Q Street

Viola Stoner (daughter of Austin Foster Stoner) is in middle front row, in white dress. Viola Stoner is the grandmother of Gaye Lenahan, who donated several family pictures of the Stoner family.

Students standing in front of Toltec school, which was founded in 1910 and later became First Congregational Church of Oildale

Town and Country market, probably in Tehachapi, after 1952 Kern county earthquake

Main Street of Fellows. Chanslor-Canfield-Midway Oil Company was active there in 1915. From the collection of Frederic Chandler Ripley, Jr.

View of Midland, which was 13 miles South of McKittrick; Holmes Supply Company is at left in foreground. The picture also shows a boiler plant and a small barn for buggies. The group of shade trees in the background at right mark the location of the…