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Portrait of Gong Shee Choy's family taken in Bakersfield, California, in 1907. The two individuals on the left are unidentified. Next (left to right) are Shee Choy, Flora Choy, Uncle Choy, Alice Choy and Frances Choy.

East Bakersfield (Baker) Branch, Children's department, Kern County Free Library.

Magazine rack at the Boys' and Girls' Branch, Kern County Free Library, Bakersfield.

A group of children using library materials at the Baker Branch.

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…

West wall of room 203 at Baker Branch.

Exterior view of Baker Branch.

Downtown Bakersfield; from the collection of Harlan Curnow

Chester Avenue in front of Austin Foster Stoner's farm implement store. Austin Foster Stoner is in center of photo, with arm on tractor. Beale Memorial Clock Tower is in background. From the collection of Gaye Lenahan, great-granddaughter of Austin…

Bakersfield Inn, original home of the Bakersfield sign which stretched across the street at 1101 Union Avenue. The Inn was built about 1945, and the sign was erected in 1949. The half of the inn at left, representing the West side of the street, was…