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
Edwards Air Force Base, Air Force Rocket Propulsion Laboratory, Contro...
Survey number: HAER CA-236-E Public domain scan of settlement or building architecture plan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Jet Propulsion Laboratory Edwards Facility, Radiographic Inspection Bu...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N708 Survey number: HAER CA-163-HH Building/structure dates: 1981 Initial Construction
Edwards Air Force Base, North Base, Hangar, End of North Base Road, Bo...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N717 Survey number: HAER CA-170-S
Jet Propulsion Laboratory Edwards Facility, Test Stand D, Steam Genera...
Survey number: HAER CA-163-H Public domain photograph related to NASA Space Program, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Naval Ordnance Test Station Inyokern, China Lake Pilot Plant, Maintena...
Public domain scan of the book page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Edwards Air Force Base, Air Force Rocket Propulsion Laboratory, Firing...
Survey number: HAER CA-236-B Public domain photograph - historical image of California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Edwards Air Force Base, X-15 Engine Test Complex, Rogers Dry Lake, eas...
Significance: AS the only facility for testing X-15 engines, individually and with the aircraft, the X-15 facility is strongly associated with the United States Man-in-Space program, and particularly with the d... More
Naval Ordnance Test Station Inyokern, Randsburg Wash Facility Target T...
Significance: The Randsburg Wash Target Test Towers (Buildings 70021 and 70022) are significant for their role in the naval testing of proximity or variable time (VT) fuzes, a vital element of the Navy's weapon... More
Edwards Air Force Base, Air Force Rocket Propulsion Laboratory, Electr...
Survey number: HAER CA-236-G Public domain photograph - historical image of California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Edwards Air Force Base, Air Force Rocket Propulsion Laboratory, Test S...
Survey number: HAER CA-236-R Public domain photograph - historical image of California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Edwards Air Force Base, South Base, X-1 Loading Pit, Western Shore of ...
Significance: The X-1 loading pit was constructed to attach the X-1 aircraft to the Boeing B-29 Superfortress, from which it was air launched during its historic flights. The pit is strongly associated with th... More
Edwards Air Force Base, North Base, North Base Road, Boron, Kern Count...
Significance: North Base originated as a remote, secret facility to test the United States' first jet-propelled military aircraft, the Bell XP-59A Airacomet. During World War II, facilities grew to accommodate... More
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Bakersfield, Kern County, California
Jan 1885. 1 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
Threshing grain on Greenfields ranch. Kern County, Cal.
No. 82. Photo by Carleton E. Watkins. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Farming; Shelf.
Greenfields ranch. Kern County, Cal.
No. 69. Photo by Carleton E. Watkins. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Ranches; Shelf.
A group of people sitting on a bench next to a truck, Potato harvester...
Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). File print is reversed; printed backwards. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas ... More
Some of the facilities of the Kern County migrant camp, California
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
View of Kern County migrant camp showing community garden plots. Calif...
Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Section of Kern migrant camp, California
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
Cotton pickers camp. Kern County, 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
Migrant potato pickers pitching their tent. Often they are without wat...
Original negative missing. Title and other information from caption card. No electronic surrogate. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More ... More
Potato field and pickers near Shafter, 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
Industrialized agriculture. From Texas farmer to migratory worker in C...
Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Electronic surrogate made from item with the same number in the LC-USF34 series. Transfer; United States... More
Arvin camp for migrant workers (Farm Security Administration-FSA) Cali...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a great depression era, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Destitute farm labor families come to 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
Halloween party at Shafter migrant camp, 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
Looking from the camp to adjoining tract where Farm Security Administr...
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
Meeting of the Mothers' Club in Arvin camp for migrant workers, a Farm...
Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More
Warehouse, used as distributing office for Farm Security Administratio...
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
Halloween party at Shafter migrant camp, 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
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.
Buttonwillow, Kern County, California. On the land since the cattle da...
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
A black and white photo of three men sitting on a log, Near Shafter, C...
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
U.S. 99 on ridge over Tehachapi Mountains. Heavy truck route between L...
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
Interior of living room of married couple living in remodeled boxcar. ...
Public domain photograph of California in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
School. Shafter migrant camp. Shafter, 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
Mother and children in nursery. Shafter migrant camp. Shafter, Califor...
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
House in Delano, California - safety film negatives, Library of Congre...
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
Captain of a squadron of "Flying Sergeants" explains how best to execu...
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
Kern County, California. Tungsten Chief Mine. Compressor house
Public domain photograph of California in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Parachutes of pursuit squadron. Lake Muroc, California
Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s US industrial development, Second World War, US war production, indusry, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A "Flying Sergeant" at Lake Muroc, California
Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information ... More
Part of the airport at Lake Muroc, 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
A street sign attached to a tree trunk. Office of War Information Phot...
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
A couple of men standing next to each other. Office of War Information...
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
Working on the radio of an interceptor plane. Lake Muroc, California
Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s US industrial development, Second World War, US war production, indusry, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A black and white photo of two men working on an airplane. Office of W...
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
Kern County, California. Mill of the Tungsten Chief Mine. Panning part...
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
A black and white photo of a man wearing a hat. Office of War Informat...
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
Checking a radio in an interceptor plane. Lake Muroc, California
Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s US industrial development, Second World War, US war production, indusry, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Kern County, California. Tungsten Chief Mine. Compressor house
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
A black and white photo of a view of a valley, Kern County, 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
A black and white photo of a winding road, Kern County, California. Mo...
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
A black and white photo of a telephone pole. Office of War Information...
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
A black and white photo of a person on a train track. Office of War In...
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
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Tehachapi, Kern County, California
Jul 1896. 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
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
Naval Ordnance Test Station Inyokern, Dispensary, Main Site, Lauritsen...
Significance: The Dispensary (Building 3) is significant as an example at Naval Air Weapons Station (NAWS) China Lake of the original International Style design for the facility. The building embodies the char... More
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Delano, Kern County, California
Jun 1892. 4 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
Naval Ordnance Test Station Inyokern, Dispensary, Main Site, Lauritsen...
Significance: The Dispensary (Building 3) is significant as an example at Naval Air Weapons Station (NAWS) China Lake of the original International Style design for the facility. The building embodies the char... 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
Edwards Air Force Base, Air Force Rocket Propulsion Laboratory, Leuhma...
Significance: Since its inception, the AFRL has been devoted to the advancement of rocket technology in support of U.S. military weapons and space flight superiority. Unlike any other facility associated with ... More
Naval Ordnance Test Station Inyokern, China Lake Pilot Plant, Machine ...
Public domain scan of the book page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Jet Propulsion Laboratory Edwards Facility, Test Stand A, Control Cent...
Survey number: HAER CA-163-B Public domain photograph related to NASA Space Program, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Edwards Air Force Base, Air Force Rocket Propulsion Laboratory, Shop B...
Survey number: HAER CA-236-L Public domain photograph of diesel or electric train engine, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Edwards Air Force Base, North Base, Dust Ditch System, Traversing Nort...
Public domain photograph - historical image of California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Edwards Air Force Base, Air Force Rocket Propulsion Laboratory, Test S...
Survey number: HAER CA-236-R Public domain photograph - historical image of California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Edwards Air Force Base, North Base, Supply & Equipment Warehouse, Firs...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N726 Survey number: HAER CA-170-LL
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James Ranch. The hay field. Public domain photograph of a desert, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Wild grape vines on the Tejon Ranch, Kern County, Calif.
No. 548. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Farm crops; Fruit Grapes.
Maricopa oil field, gelatin silver print
J130863 U.S. Copyright Office Stamped on verso: "West Coast Art Co. (Inc.), 213-14-15 Henne Bldg., Los Angeles. Price, 2[...]0. Order by number. Mail orders receive prompt attention. Write for prices on new wor... More
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Wasco, Kern County, California.
Nov 1913. 1 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
Arkansas squatters. Three years in California. Near Bakersfield, Calif...
Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Electronic surrogate made from the duplicate negative, not the original. Transfer; United States. Office... More
Hooverville of Bakersfield, California. A rapidly growing community of...
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
The Great Reaping Day. Hymn singing, Sunday afternoon. The woman had b...
Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Potato picker in camp near Shafter, California
Public domain photograph of a truck, pickup truck, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Potato picker in camp near Shafter, 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
Halloween party at Shafter migrant camp, 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
The children crowd and push to reach refreshments at Halloween party. ...
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
Camp bulletin board in Shafter camp for migratory workers, Farm Securi...
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
Billboard along U.S. 99 behind which three destitute families of migra...
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
Oil fields. Kern County, California
Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Cotton picker during strike carrying his Farm Security Administration ...
Public domain photograph of Great Depression, farm, farmer, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Bakersfield, California. Outside Farm Security Administration (FSA) "g...
Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Close-up of campers' bulletin board, Shafter camp for migrants, 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
Squatters in the brush near Wasco, 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
Emptying cotton after weighing. Small cotton farm. Kern County, 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
Camper receives help in fitting a coat from Works Progress Administrat...
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
A black and white photo of an oil field, Oil fields. Kern County, Cali...
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
Tired mothers and tired children at the end of the Halloween party at ...
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
Type house at "Garden Homes," Kern County, California. Twenty such hom...
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. Washington Division; 1944... More
A black and white photo of an oil field, Oil fields. Kern County, Cali...
Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More
Street meeting at night in Mexican town outside of Shafter, California...
Public domain photograph of California in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Kern County, California. Large-scale mechanized farming. The potato pl...
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
Buttonwillow, California. New large-scale cotton farming district
Picryl description: Public domain image of a gas station, convenience store, 20th-century small town, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
On U.S. 99 between Bakersfield and the Ridge, en route to San Diego. M...
Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Kern County. Debris left out on the flats where squatters' camp stood ...
Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description