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Building an auto trailer in a squatter camp. Outskirts of Bakersfield, California

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

Family of drought refugees on U.S. 99 near Bakersfield, California

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.

The Kern County Museum, a history museum located in Bakersfield, California

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

Kern County No. 1 Hydroelectric System, Powerhouse Exciters, Kern River Canyon, Bakersfield, Kern County, CA

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.

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.

Mural "A Salute to Emergency Medical Services" by artist Alfredo Cuellar in Bakersfield, California

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 County No. 1 Hydroelectric System, Powerhouse Exciters, Kern River Canyon, Bakersfield, Kern County, CA

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 on the dump outside of Bakersfield, California

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

Listening to the speaker at the conference to Aid Agricultural Organization during the cotton strike (Steinbeck Committee). Bakersfield, Kern County, California

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. California. Near Bakersfield

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

More Oklahomans reach Calif. via the cotton fields of Ariz. ; "We got blowed out in Oklahoma." Share-croppers family near Bakersfield, Apr. 7, 1935

More Oklahomans reach Calif. via the cotton fields of Ariz. ; "We got ...

Photograph at top shows a car loaded with people, their belongings and supplies. Photo at bottom shows a woman and children sitting in the grass beside an automobile.

Listening to the speaker at the Conference to Aid Agricultural Organization during the cotton strike (Steinbeck Committee). Bakersfield, Kern County, California

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.

The Kern County Museum, a history museum located in Bakersfield, California

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

Kern County No. 1 Hydroelectric System, Powerhouse Exciters, Kern River Canyon, Bakersfield, Kern County, CA

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 wordly posessions of refugees from Texas dust, drought and depression

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.

Fox Theater, Bakersfield, California

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 River Canyon, Bakersfield, Kern County, CA

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 River Canyon, Bakersfield, Kern County, CA

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.

Standard Oil tanks at Bakersfield, Calif.

Public domain photograph of rural landscape, California, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bakersfield, Calif. (vicinity). Grandmother of 22 children, from a farm in Oklahoma, 80 years old, now living in a camp "If you lose your pluck you lose the most there is in your - all you've got to live with."

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.

Waiting for the potato harvest to open, 150 migratory families from eleven states are camped in the brush along the highway. No water, no toilets provided. This is a newly developed potato area. Large scale industrialized farming, 3000 additional acres under cultivation this year for the first time. Seven miles east of Bakersfield, California

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 of Bakersfield for colored people

Bakersfield, California. Detail of church in rapidly growing addition ...

Public domain photograph of church building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Standard Oil tanks at Bakersfield, Calif.

Standard Oil tanks at Bakersfield, Calif.

Public domain photograph of industrial architecture, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Dispossessed Arkansas farmers. Bakersfield, California

Dispossessed Arkansas farmers. Bakersfield, California

Public domain photograph of California in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Destitute farm families come to FSA (Farm Security Administration) distributing depot to apply for food grant. Bakersfield, Kern County, California

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

The Kern County Museum, a history museum located in Bakersfield, California

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

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

Ingenuity of man - An old black and white photo of a tent

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, California

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 years old. Now living in camp on the outskirts of Bakersfield, California. "If you lose your pluck you lose the most there is in you - all you've got to live with"

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

Conference called by the Steinbeck Committee to Aid Agricultural Organization during the cotton strike. Bakersfield, California

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.

Kern County No. 1 Hydroelectric System, Powerhouse Exciters, Kern River Canyon, Bakersfield, Kern County, CA

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 River Canyon, Bakersfield, Kern County, CA

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

Once a prosperous Texas farmer, near Bakersfield, California, now come to California looking for work and work for his family in cotton. No work, and no money

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

Outside the Labor Temple where the conference called by the Steinbeck Committee during the cotton strike is being held. Bakersfield, California

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.

Cotton bales in gin yard outside Bakersfield, California. Cotton has been produced commercially in California since 1909. In 1936 California produced 3.3% of the cotton in United States

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 people. Photograph made in Farm Security Administration (FSA) distributing station for emergency grants of food and clothing to destitute agricultural workers. Bakersfield, California

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 Bakersfield

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.

[Man helping another man hop a freight car, Bakersfield, California]

[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

Squatters along highway near Bakersfield, California. Penniless refugees from dust bowl. Twenty-two in family, thirty-nine evictions, now encamped near Bakersfield without shelter, without water and looking for work in the cotton

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

Kern County camp for migrants. Planned and erected by the Resettlement Administration fifteen miles out of Bakersfield, California. Partially occupied because there is not any work in the fields

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) distributing depot to apply for food grant. Bakersfield, Kern County, California

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 Farm Security Administration (FSA) for relief. Bakersfield, California

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.

Kern County No. 1 Hydroelectric System, Powerhouse Exciters, Kern River Canyon, Bakersfield, Kern County, CA

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 River Canyon, Bakersfield, Kern County, CA

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 on the dump outside of Bakersfield, California

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 agricultural worker on strike for wage increase in cotton. Bakersfield, California

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

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, California

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

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

Bakersfield, Cal.. Cityscape photograph,  Panoramic Photograph

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 County No. 1 Hydroelectric System, Powerhouse Exciters, Kern River Canyon, Bakersfield, Kern County, CA

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, California. Family of six; no shelter, no food, no money and almost no gasoline. The child has bone tuberculosis

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

Grandmother of twenty-two children, from a farm in Oklahoma; eighty years old. Now living in camp on the outskirts of Bakersfield, California. "If you lose your pluck you lose the most there is in you - all you've got to live with"

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

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 (FSA) relief grants of commodities to destitute farm labor families. Bakersfield, California

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.

Bakersfield, Kern County, California. Housing for Negroes in a new district on the edge of town. A rapidly growing community of colored people, mostly from Texas, some from Oklahoma. Rent of this house without plumbing twelve dollars per month

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 River Canyon, Bakersfield, Kern County, CA

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 River Canyon, Bakersfield, Kern County, CA

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 River Canyon, Bakersfield, Kern County, CA

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

A German Meserschmitt on display at Bakersfield, California

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Sgt. Chris Boni, California Army National Guard crew

Sgt. Chris Boni, California Army National Guard crew

Sgt. Chris Boni, California Army National Guard crew chief from the 1-140th Aviation Battalion (Air Assault) out of Los Alamitos Joint Training Base (JFTB), releases water from over head while battling the Rim ... More

Bakersfield. A cottage home. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Bakersfield. A cottage home. 19th century, Library of Congress collect...

Lawn with shrubbery, Bakersfield, Kern County, California. No. 593. Public domain photograph - historical image of California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mexicans bound for the Imperial Valley to harvest peas. Near Bakersfield, California

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 pickers' strike

Bakersfield, California. Applications for "grants" during cotton picke...

Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Roll Out the Pickets
Warehouse, used as distributing office for Farm Security Administration (FSA) relief grants of commodities to destitute farm labor families during cotton strike of October 1938. Bakersfield, California

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.

To serve the crops of California, thousands of families live on wheels. Near Bakersfield, California

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 Organization during the cotton strike (Steinbeck Committee). Bakersfield, Kern County, California

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.

Bakersfield. A cottage home, Black Hamburgs

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 Bakersfield, California. "If you lose your pluck you lose the most there is in you - all you've got to live with"

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). They live in tents on the flats outside of Bakersfield, California

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 Administration (FSA) relief grants of commodities to destitute farm labor families during cotton strike of October 1938. Bakersfield, California

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.

Columbus Stockade Blues
Bakersfield a cottage home, Black Hamburgs.

Bakersfield a cottage home, Black Hamburgs.

Pomegranates and grapes on arbor, Bakersfield, Kern County, California. No. 603.

Cotton picker during strike carrying his Farm Security Administration grant of food and necessities from warehouse to Farm Security Administration Shafter camp for migrants, where he lives with his family. Bakersfield, California

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) "grant" office during cotton pickers' strike

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

Dispossessed Arkansas farmers. These people are resettling themselves on the dump outside of Bakersfield, California

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

Bakersfield, Kern County, California, 1901.

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

On location of Resettlement Administration film near Bakersfield, California. Three brothers, drought refugees from Texas (note water barrel)

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

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 auto trailers and trailer being constructed on left

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

U.S. Army Pfc. Jake Vawter, a native of Bakersfield,

U.S. Army Pfc. Jake Vawter, a native of Bakersfield,

U.S. Army Pfc. Jake Vawter, a native of Bakersfield, Calif., fire support specialist, assigned to 2nd Platoon, Company B, 1st Battalion, 501st Infantry Regiment, pounds fists with children near Tore Obeh villag... More