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One of Electric Water Company's pumping station; there were 7 in all

Shows pumping equipment used by Kern county's Electric Water Company

Shows power generating equipment at Electric Water Company's Pump Station number 2

Office headquarters for Electric Power Company of Kern County, located at Kern County Land Company building, 1712 19th Street; manager was F.G. Munzer.

Sign on top of machine shop reads "Kern County Land Company Machine and Blacksmith Shop."

Shows gas engine used in power generation by Electric Water Company

Librarian Eleanor Wilson poses beside bust of General Beale, at the second Beale Memorial Library, on the day that the library's name was changed from Kern County Central Library to Beale Memorial Libary: June 2, 1966. She wears pioneer dress for…

Shows library staff in an office of the Kern County Library Headquarters, then located in the Kern County Courthouse basement

Shows workers at an orange packing shed in Edison where oranges were packed into crates. Most of the workers are women; at least one is a small child. Crates bear various labels: Sunkist, Edison, Wizard, California Fruit Growers Exchange.Calendar on…

Economy Mercantile, and other Tehachapi businesses, after the 1952 Kern County earthquake