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.
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.
A black and white photo of three men standing next to a brick wall - F...
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
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
A German Meserschmitt on display at Bakersfield, California
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
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
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
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Bakersfield, Kern County, California
Jul 1899. 15 Sheet(s). Includes Kern. California fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire i... More
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Bakersfield, Kern County, California
Jul 1899. 15 Sheet(s). Includes Kern. California fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire i... More
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Bakersfield, Kern County, California
Jul 1892. 13 Sheet(s). Includes East Bakersfield. California fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of asse... More
Drought refugee's car on U.S. Highway 99 between Bakersfield and Famos...
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, California. Outside Farm Security Administration (FSA) "g...
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
Mexicans, field laborers, on strike in cotton picking season, apply to...
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...
Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. More information about th... More
Bakersfield, California. Detail of church in rapidly growing addition ...
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
Newly-built cabins. Rent five dollars per month. California. Near Bake...
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
Far East Food 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
Tejon Theater, Bakersfield, California
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
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
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Bakersfield, Kern County, California
Jul 1892. 13 Sheet(s). Includes East Bakersfield. California fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of asse... More
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Bakersfield, Kern County, California
Jul 1899. 15 Sheet(s). Includes Kern. California fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire i... More
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Bakersfield, Kern County, California
Jul 1892. 13 Sheet(s). Includes East Bakersfield. California fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of asse... More
Mexicans bound for the Imperial Valley to harvest peas. Near Bakersfie...
Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Bakersfield, California. Applications for "grants" during cotton picke...
Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Deschwanden's Shoe Repair ("The Big Shoe"), angle view, 10th & Chester...
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
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
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Bakersfield, Kern County, California
Jul 1899. 15 Sheet(s). Includes Kern. California fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire i... More
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Bakersfield, Kern County, California
Jul 1899. 15 Sheet(s). Includes Kern. California fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire i... More
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Bakersfield, Kern County, California
Jul 1899. 15 Sheet(s). Includes Kern. California fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire i... More
Bakersfield A Bakersfield home.
Photograph showing a large Victorian cottage with verandas and mansard roof. No. 456. Forms part of: Kern County Survey Collection.
Eighty year old woman living in squatters' camp on the outskirts of Ba...
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
Destitute farm families come to FSA (Farm Security Administration) dis...
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, California. Applications for "grants" during cotton picke...
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
Conference called by the Steinbeck Committee to Aid Agricultural Organ...
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
Tower Motel sign, Bakersfield, California
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Motels. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph a... 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
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Bakersfield, Kern County, California
Mar 1889. 3 Sheet(s). California fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liabili... More
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Bakersfield, Kern County, California
Jul 1892. 13 Sheet(s). Includes East Bakersfield. California fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of asse... More
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Bakersfield, Kern County, California
Jul 1899. 15 Sheet(s). Includes Kern. California fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire i... More
Grandmother of twenty-two children, from a farm in Oklahoma; eighty ye...
Original negative missing. This negative made from file print. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; ... More
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
Same as 19051. Newly-built cabins, rent five dollars per month. Califo...
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
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
Shine Parlor, 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
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
The former recreation hall (repainted and vastly renovated in the earl...
Public domain image of a large historic building, city hall, urban architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Bakersfield, Kern County, California
Jan 1888. 2 Sheet(s). California fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liabili... More
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Bakersfield, Kern County, California
Jul 1899. 15 Sheet(s). Includes Kern. California fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire i... More
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Bakersfield, Kern County, California
Jul 1899. 15 Sheet(s). Includes Kern. California fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire i... More
Bakersfield, Kern County, California, 1901.
Perspective map not drawn to scale. Bird's-eye-view. "Photographs taken by Ashton, photographer, Bakersfield." Includes illus. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 17 Available also through the Library of Congress Web ... More
Help Yourself - Public domain poster, Music division, Library of Congr...
Union High School Auditorium Bakersfield Fri and Sat Nights Apr 16-17 8pm sponsored by American legion Frank S Reynolds post no. 26 prices 75c 50c 35c tickets at Kimball and Stone drug store Federal The... More
On location of Resettlement Administration film near Bakersfield, Cali...
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
Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Squatter camp. Outskirts of Bakersfield, California. Note number of au...
Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Building an auto trailer in a squatter camp. Outskirts of Bakersfield,...
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 ...
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
Far East Restaurant, 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
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
Moose Lodge, Chester Avenue, Bakersfield, California
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Fraternal buildings; Main Street. Purchase; John Margolies 2007 (DLC/PP-2007:125). Credit line: John Margolies R... 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
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Bakersfield, Kern County, California
Jul 1892. 13 Sheet(s). Includes East Bakersfield. California fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of asse... More
Bakersfield. A cottage home, Black Hamburgs
Black Hamburg grapes hanging on vine, Bakersfield, Kern County, California. No. 601.
Eighty year old woman living in squatters' camp on the outskirts of Ba...
Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Children of refugee families now on Works Progress Administration (WPA...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a great depression era, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Warehouse, used as distributing office for Farm Security Administratio...
Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Note on campaign "Olson for Governor, 1938." Car of migrant agricultur...
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
Same as 19051. Rent eight dollars per month. California. Near Bakersfi...
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 washing his hands. Placer County, California. This man is from ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
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
An original cabin (compare this photo with those of cabins vastly reno...
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
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Bakersfield, Kern County, California
Jul 1892. 13 Sheet(s). Includes East Bakersfield. California fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of asse... More
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Bakersfield, Kern County, California
Mar 1889. 3 Sheet(s). California fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liabili... More
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Bakersfield, Kern County, California
Jul 1899. 15 Sheet(s). Includes Kern. California fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire i... More
Antimony mines and buildings, Kern County, Calif., about forty miles f...
Photographic views of Kern County, Calif., ca. 1888. No. 453. Public domain photograph - historical image of California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Dispossessed Arkansas farmers. These people are resettling themselves ...
Annotation on original negative jacket: DL. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. More information about the FSA/OWI Colle... More
Cotton picker during strike carrying his 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
Speaker, migratory worker, leader in the cotton strike, at Conference ...
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
Migrant family outfit on U.S. 99 between Bakersfield, California, and ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of industrial or agricultural worker, 1930s, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less
Milt's Iron Horse Restaurant, Oak Street, Bakersfield, California
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Diners; Eating & drinking establishments. Purchase; John Margolies 2008 (DLC/PP-2008:109-2). Credit line: John M... More
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Bakersfield, Kern County, California
Jul 1899. 15 Sheet(s). Includes Kern. California fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire i... More
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Bakersfield, Kern County, California
Jul 1892. 13 Sheet(s). Includes East Bakersfield. California fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of asse... More
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Bakersfield, Kern County, California
Jul 1892. 13 Sheet(s). Includes East Bakersfield. California fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of asse... More
Draft Men, Bakersfield, Cal. receiving "Canteen Service"
Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC. Group title: Canteen U.S. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. G... More
To serve the crops of California, thousands of families live on wheels...
Public domain photograph of an automobile, 1920s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Listening to the speaker at the Conference to Aid Agricultural Organiz...
Picryl description: Public domain image related to politics, political campaigns, committee, free to use, no copyright restrictions.