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Interior of McKittrick Branch Library, built in 1923; it was located at 2371 Second street, and served the county through the late 1970s.

Shows Margaret Newman, who worked at Kern County Library until 1921, writing at a desk, with card catalog in background at left; exact branch location unknown. Photograph caption: Miss Newman, Branch Head--Headquarters, 1920?

Shows site of library at Stony Brook Retreat, Kern County's tuberculosis hospital 1928-1968. The facility was one of 11 institutions served by the Kern County Library System at that time

Shows librarian Mila De Laveaga using card catalog, with Celina Peters watching; at Kern County Library headquarters, then located in the basement of the Kern County Courthouse, torn down in 1953. A subsequent courthouse was built at the site in…

Shows Erma Morris, Branch Librarian, at open house of Kern General Hospital Library, at location later known as Kern Medical Center

Front view of Kern County Jail, which once stood on Truxtun Avenue. The building also housed a branch of the Kern County Library. Mr. Fay D. Jones was in charge of the library.

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…

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

Medical library of hospital then known as Kern General Hospital. Pictured: Mrs.Thella Winters, medical librarian; Dr.Albert Spohn; Dr.Lewis Sandridge; Carla Hamblet; Antonia Villanueva