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Four unidentified people stand near the damaged Kern Equipment Co. building on east 19th St. in Bakersfield after the 1952 earthquake.

The flooded Union Ice Company warehouse located just south of the Southern Pacific Railroad tracks. The photographer was on G Street looking northeast towards Kern. The sign in the background says "Planing Mill", probably Madary's Planing Mill…

Kern County Vietnam War Memorial at the Administration and Courts building, 1415 Truxtun Ave., Bakersfield.

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 Officials posing on the steps of what was then the court house. Standing: Thomas Harding, Assessor; Gene Freeman, D.A.; N.R. Packard, County Clerk; R.E. Arick, Superior Court Judge; A.P. Bernard, County Treasurer; W.A. Howell, Court…

Kern County Library Headquarters, 1300 17th St., Bakersfield.

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

Shows Kern County Land Company's provision for employees working near Wasco; bunkhouse is at left, mess hall is at right

Kern County Land Company Office, located at 2920 H Street. Galbraith Van & Storage Company on Chester Avenue is visible in background at far right; office was built after 1952 earthquake

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