An old black and white photo of a man and a woman, Dispossessed Arkans...
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc... More
Listening to the speaker at the conference to Aid Agricultural Organiz...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a crowded sports competition or music festival event, spectators, people, audience, concert, stadium, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Same as 19051. Newly-built cabins, rent five dollars per month. Califo...
Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Along the highway near Bakersfield, California. Dust bowl refugees
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc... More
A black and white photo of a man plowing a field. Office of War Inform...
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
Terrace Drive-In Theater, Terrace Way, Bakersfield, California
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Theater screens (backs and fronts); Drive-in movie theaters & signs. Purchase; John Margolies 2007 (DLC/PP-2007:... More
A migrant's shack (repainted and vastly renovated in the early 2000s) ...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Weedpatch Camp, a "rescue camp" for distressed migrant workers, whom some disparagingly called "Okies," who had fled Dust Bowl conditions in the Great Pla... More
On location of Resettlement Administration film near Bakersfield, Cali...
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc... More
Bakersfield, Calif. (vicinity). Grandmother of 22 children, from a far...
Corresponding negative no. LC-USF34-9857-C. Forms part of: FSA/OWI Collection (Library of Congress). LOT 344.
Children of refugee families now on Works Progress Administration (WPA...
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
Waiting for the potato harvest to open, 150 migratory families from el...
Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Bakersfield, California. Detail of church in rapidly growing addition ...
Public domain photograph of church building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A black and white photo of logs in a river, Lumber mill near Bakersfie...
Public domain photograph - California, United States, World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Fox Theater, Bakersfield, California, Motion Picture Theaters
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Theaters. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph... More
Aerial view of a portion of the San Andreas Fault in California's Sier...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The geological fault runs roughly 810 miles through California. It forms the tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate. Cre... More
Standard Oil tanks at Bakersfield, Calif.
Public domain photograph of industrial architecture, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Building an auto trailer in a squatter camp. Outskirts of Bakersfield,...
Public domain photograph of a car, history of automobile design, car model, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Three carloads of Mexicans headed for the Imperial Valley to harvest p...
Public domain photograph of an automobile, 1920s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Squatter camp. Outskirts of Bakersfield, California. Note number of au...
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
Family of drought refugees on U.S. 99 near Bakersfield, California
Picryl description: Public domain image of military vehicle, automobile, tractor truck, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Migrant family outfit on U.S. 99 between Bakersfield, California, and ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer, 1930s, 20th-century dust bowl era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Spreading lime in a field near Bakersfield, Vermont
Picryl description: Public domain image of working farmers, agriculture, farm, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
The Kern County Museum, a history museum located in Bakersfield, Calif...
The main focus of the museum is the history of Kern County, including Bakersfield. One prominent features is its Pioneer Village with over 50 original buildings from around the county. Title, date, and keywords... More
Aerial view of a portion of the San Andreas fault in California's Sier...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The geological fault runs roughly 810 miles through California. It forms the tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate. Cre... More
Dispossessed Arkansas farmers. These people are resettling themselves ...
Drought refugees (a man and a woman) building a house. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. More information about the FS... More
Kern County No. 1 Hydroelectric System, Powerhouse Exciters, Kern Rive...
Significance: The Kern River No. 1 powerhouse is equipped with two exciters (small electric generators) to provide direct field current to the four 5000 kv generators. The No. 1 exciter is original equipment d... More
Union Oil Company at Bakersfield, Calif.
J139334 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; West Coast Art Co.; March 21, 1910; DLC/PP-1910:44016. No. 581.
Drought refugee children on U.S. 99 near Bakersfield, California
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
Farmer from Oklahoma, his wife, son and daughter-in-law and two grandc...
Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty, child labor, Great Depression, 1930s, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Foxy's Hair Studio, Bakersfield, California
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Main Street. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photogr... More
Deschwanden's Shoe Repair ("The Big Shoe"), straight-on view, 10th & C...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Mimetic buildings; Main Street. Purchase; John Margolies 2007 (DLC/PP-2007:125). Credit line: John Margolies Roa... More
Mural "A Salute to Emergency Medical Services" by artist Alfredo Cuell...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, P... More
Kern Island canal head gate, 2 1/2 miles N.E. of Bakersfield, Kern Cou...
Canal with wooden dam(?), Kern County, California. W276 Watkins' new series. Exhibited: "California : The Art of Water" at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, California, July - November 2016.
Kern County No. 1 Hydroelectric System, Powerhouse Exciters, Kern Rive...
Significance: The Kern River No. 1 powerhouse is equipped with two exciters (small electric generators) to provide direct field current to the four 5000 kv generators. The No. 1 exciter is original equipment d... More
Dispossessed Arkansas farmers. These people are resettling themselves ...
Drought refugees (a man and a woman) building a house. Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Dispossessed Arkansas farmers. Bakersfield, California
Public domain photograph of California in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Example of self-resettlement in California. Oklahoma farm family on hi...
Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Destitute farm families come to FSA (Farm Security Administration) dis...
Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Once a prosperous Texas farmer, near Bakersfield, California, now come...
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc... More
Vintage car in Weedpatch, a town just south of Bakersfield, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More
The Kern County Museum, a history museum located in Bakersfield, Calif...
Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Bakersfield, Cal.. Cityscape photograph, Panoramic Photograph
J130913 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; West Coast Art Co.; August 21, 1909. Stamped on verso: "West Coast Art Co. (Inc.), 213-14-15 Henne Bldg., Los Angeles. Price, $2.50. Order by number. Mail orders... More
Once a prosperous Texas farmer, near Bakersfield, California, now come...
Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Kern County camp for migrants. Planned and erected by the Resettlement...
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc... More
Family of drought refugees on U.S. 99 near Bakersfield, California
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
Outside the Labor Temple where the conference called by the Steinbeck ...
Picryl description: Public domain image related to politics, political campaigns, committee, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Listening to the speaker at the Conference to Aid Agricultural Organiz...
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
Cotton bales in gin yard outside Bakersfield, California. Cotton has b...
Public domain photograph of rural landscape, California, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The commodities on the counter represent two weeks allotment for four ...
Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Newly-built cabins. Rent five dollars per month. California. Near Bake...
Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, warehouse, depot, train station, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Family of migrant agricultural day laborers camped near Spiro, Oklahom...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph group portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
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[Man helping another man hop a freight car, Bakersfield, California]
By National Youth Administration. Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Center Fire Station, H Street, Bakersfield, California
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Municipal misc.; Main Street. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roads... More
Woolworth's Antique Mall, Bakersfield, California
Photograph shows Woolworth's Antique Mall located at K St. and 19th St., Bakersfield, California. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2019) Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographe... More
Squatters along highway near Bakersfield, California. Penniless refuge...
Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Migrant family on U.S. Highway 99 between Bakersfield and Famoso, Cali...
Public domain photograph of an automobile, 1920s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Kern County camp for migrants. Planned and erected by the Resettlement...
Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Destitute farm families come to FSA (Farm Security Administration) dis...
Public domain photograph of military personnel, army, militia, infantry, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Mexicans, field laborers, on strike in cotton picking season, apply to...
Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Aerial view of a portion of the San Andreas fault in California's Sier...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The geological fault runs roughly 810 miles through California. It forms the tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate. Cre... More
Kern County No. 1 Hydroelectric System, Powerhouse Exciters, Kern Rive...
Significance: The Kern River No. 1 powerhouse is equipped with two exciters (small electric generators) to provide direct field current to the four 5000 kv generators. The No. 1 exciter is original equipment d... More
Kern County No. 1 Hydroelectric System, Powerhouse Exciters, Kern Rive...
Significance: The Kern River No. 1 powerhouse is equipped with two exciters (small electric generators) to provide direct field current to the four 5000 kv generators. The No. 1 exciter is original equipment d... More
Children of Oklahoma drought refugees on highway near Bakersfield, Cal...
Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Squatters along highway near Bakersfield, California. Penniless refuge...
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc... More
Children of Oklahoma drought refugees on highway near Bakersfield, Cal...
File print is reversed; printed backwards. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informati... More
Grandmother of twenty-two children, from a farm in Oklahoma; eighty ye...
Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Drought refugee children on U.S. 99 near Bakersfield, California
Picryl description: Public domain image of industrial or agricultural worker, 1930s, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less
Warehouse used as distributing office for Farm Security Administration...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Warehouse used as distributing office for Farm Security Administration...
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
Bakersfield, Kern County, California. Housing for Negroes in a new dis...
Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Kern County No. 1 Hydroelectric System, Powerhouse Exciters, Kern Rive...
Significance: The Kern River No. 1 powerhouse is equipped with two exciters (small electric generators) to provide direct field current to the four 5000 kv generators. The No. 1 exciter is original equipment d... More
Kern County No. 1 Hydroelectric System, Powerhouse Exciters, Kern Rive...
Significance: The Kern River No. 1 powerhouse is equipped with two exciters (small electric generators) to provide direct field current to the four 5000 kv generators. The No. 1 exciter is original equipment d... More
Kern County No. 1 Hydroelectric System, Powerhouse Exciters, Kern Rive...
Significance: The Kern River No. 1 powerhouse is equipped with two exciters (small electric generators) to provide direct field current to the four 5000 kv generators. The No. 1 exciter is original equipment d... More
Ingenuity of man - An old black and white photo of a tent
House made of eucalyptus leaves, Bakersfield, California. Photograph taken for U.S. Resettlement Administration.
Arkansas squatters. Three years in California. Near Bakersfield, Calif...
Picryl description: Public domain image of historical building ruins, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Grandmother of twenty-two children, from a farm in Oklahoma; eighty ye...
Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Grandmother of twenty-two children, from a farm in Oklahoma; eighty ye...
Annotation on original negative jacket: DL. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informat... More
Conference called by the Steinbeck Committee to Aid Agricultural Organ...
Picryl description: Public domain image related to politics, political campaigns, committee, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Jolly Kone Drive-in sign, Bakersfield, California
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Food. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph arc... More
A migrant's shack (repainted and vastly renovated in the early 2000s) ...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Weedpatch Camp, a "rescue camp" for distressed migrant workers, whom some disparagingly called "Okies," who had fled Dust Bowl conditions in the Great Pla... More
Kern County No. 1 Hydroelectric System, Powerhouse Exciters, Kern Rive...
Significance: The Kern River No. 1 powerhouse is equipped with two exciters (small electric generators) to provide direct field current to the four 5000 kv generators. The No. 1 exciter is original equipment d... More
Kern County No. 1 Hydroelectric System, Powerhouse Exciters, Kern Rive...
Significance: The Kern River No. 1 powerhouse is equipped with two exciters (small electric generators) to provide direct field current to the four 5000 kv generators. The No. 1 exciter is original equipment d... More
Roadside camp near Bakersfield, California. "Come to California." The ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of military vehicle, automobile, tractor truck, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Hooverville of Bakersfield, California. A rapidly growing community of...
Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Fox Theater, Bakersfield, California, Motion Picture Theaters
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Theaters. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph... More
Fox Theater, Bakersfield, California, Motion Picture Theaters
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Theaters. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph... More
American Kleaner, E. 21st Street, Bakersfield, California
Photograph shows American Kleaner located at 400 21st St., Bakersfield, California. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2019) Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies c... More
Fox Theater, Bakersfield, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More
Kern County No. 1 Hydroelectric System, Powerhouse Exciters, Kern Rive...
Significance: The Kern River No. 1 powerhouse is equipped with two exciters (small electric generators) to provide direct field current to the four 5000 kv generators. The No. 1 exciter is original equipment d... More
Kern County No. 1 Hydroelectric System, Powerhouse Exciters, Kern Rive...
Significance: The Kern River No. 1 powerhouse is equipped with two exciters (small electric generators) to provide direct field current to the four 5000 kv generators. The No. 1 exciter is original equipment d... More
Standard Oil tanks at Bakersfield, Calif.
Public domain photograph of rural landscape, California, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Dispossessed Arkansas farmers. These people are resettling themselves ...
Public domain photograph of California in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Note on campaign "Olson for Governor, 1938." Car of migrant agricultur...
Public domain photograph of an automobile, 1920s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A German Meserschmitt on display at Bakersfield, California
Public domain photograph related to Germany, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A corporal in the Army takes his girl to dinner. Bakersfield, Californ...
Public domain photograph - California, United States, World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Fox Theater, Bakersfield, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More
Aerial view of a portion of the San Andreas fault in California's Sier...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a dry desert landscape, sand, sky, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
An outbuilding of the former Weedpatch camp south of Bakersfield, Cali...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Weedpatch Camp, a "rescue camp" for distressed migrant workers, whom some disparagingly called "Okies," who had fled Dust Bowl conditions in the Great Pla... More
Bakersfield, Cal.. Cityscape photograph, Panoramic Photograph
J130913 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; West Coast Art Co.; August 21, 1909. Stamped on verso: "West Coast Art Co. (Inc.), 213-14-15 Henne Bldg., Los Angeles. Price, $2.50. Order by number. Mail orders... More
Kern Island canal head gate, 2 1/2 miles N.E. of Bakersfield, Kern Cou...
Canal with wooden dam(?), Kern County, California. W276 Watkins' new series. Exhibited: "California : The Art of Water" at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, California, July - November 2016.