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View of downtown Bakersfield; from collection of Harlan Curnow

Campaign banner, "Franklin D. Roosevelt for President," hanging across Chester Avenue, downtown Bakersfield; from collection of Harlan Curnow

Downtown Bakersfield, showing Kress building and a drug store, across the street from each other; from the collection of Harlan Curnow

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

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…

View of Garces circle, with statue of Father Garces, early Catholic missionary and Franciscan priest; from the collection of Harlan Curnow

Front row, left to right: Clement "Clemie" Lilburn (secretary), librarian Mila De Laveaga, librarian Miss Eleanor Wilson; second row, Miss Betty Jo Peterson, Miss Mary Corbitt, Lois Rainey; five rows back, aisle seat, Miss Irene Branham, Children's…

Author Eve Titus performs for a group of children at the Baker Branch.

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…

View of downtown Bakersfield; from collection of Harlan Curnow