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The Howell and Wolff Butcher shop, south of the Baker Building, between Mill and Oak on the east side of Main Street. People from left: Clint Jones, cowboy, Morris Wolff, and John Howell.

This long-distance view of the sanitorium appears to have been taken while a light snow was on the surrounding ground.

Shows a tabletop radio used at the Stony Brook Retreat, placed near a curtained and shaded window.

Shows Stony Brook Retreat's x-ray room and its equipment.

Children, likely patients of the Stony Brook Retreat, are enjoying its swimming pool. One of them is using a safety rope.

Stony Brook Sanitorium was expanded to admit children as patients. The children are wearing bathing suits in anticipation of using the sanitorium's swimming pool. A written label on the photo, "Seymour, Keene, Calif." is inscribed next to Dr.…

Dr. Schaper served at the Stony Brook Tuberculosis Sanitorium in Keene, California.

Aztec School was the first school in Oil Center. It opened in September 1901. Front of photograph is labelled "M. Kowalsky, Bakersfield, Cal."

This photo shows the derricks, machines shops, warehouses, and related buildings of the Associated Oil Company at Oil Center

Oil Center's first general store was opened in the early part of the 20th century by John W. Heard, who sold it to brothers Otto C. and Edward Heck, who later sold it to Jesse S. Rees.