Rare Books
Kern County Experimental Station. : List of grasses and fodder plants. Bakersfield, California
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Kern County Land Company ledgers
Manuscripts
HM 80953 (a): Balance Sheet ledger, 1897-1899; HM 80953 (b): The Californian vol. XXX no. 22, 1895. 4 copies; HM 80953 (c): General Trial Balance, No. 2, Kern Co. Land Co. and Kern Co. Canal & Water Co., 1900-1902; HM 80953 (d): J.B. Haggin, K.I. Water Rate Ledger. Water supplied various persons through different canals by J.B.H. Stock, 1890; HM 80953 (e): Kern River Mills Cash, 1881-1882; HM 80953 (f): Kern River Mills Journal, 1881-1882; HM 80953 (g): Ledger, 1857-1878; HM 80953 (h): Pump Station Accounts, 1900-1902; HM 80953 (i): Quarterly Inventory of Farming Implements, Machinery, Office, House & Camp Eq.'p.'g, Livestock, Lumber, etc., Belonging to the Kern County Land Co., 1895-1897; and HM 80953 (j): Water Co. Cash Book, 1894. In addition to these ledgers, there were some miscellaneous items that accompanied the volumes and are housed in one box; they include: California. Supreme Court. Eila, Countess Festetics de Tolna, Plaintiff and Respondent, vs. Rodolph, Count Festetics de Tolna, Defendant and Appellant, Transcript on Appeal (1901), two copies of The Cost of Making a Settler's Home, In the Famous Kern Delta [1894], two copies of Settler's Experience in Kern County California (1894), a printed map of Peru (1912), Location, Resources, Attractions and Development of The Kern Delta ... Exhibit at the World's Columbian Exposition (1893), prospectuses for Kern Valley, California and Moraga Rancho. Lastly, there are approximately 45 Luz Electrica de Jalapa stock certificates (in Spanish) (1893).
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Kern County Land Company papers and slides
Manuscripts
Items include a map of the Miramonte Colony Tract in Kern County (approximately 1890-1900); a day book probably written by James Ben Ali Haggin (1886-1890), and two manuscripts of speeches by David Stoddard Atwood on Kern County Land Company history. Also includes 47 slides of images of photographs held in the Kern County Land Company archives in Bakersfield, California, some of which may be by American photographer Carleton Watkins. They were created by David Stoddard Atwood as part of a a project on the history of the Kern County Land Company, where he had worked. The slides include photographs of people, structures, and landscape.
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California - Bakersfield, Kern County
Visual Materials
A collection of photographs and maps compiled by American geologist and petroleum engineer Ralph Arnold (1875-1961), documenting his pioneering work in oil and mineral exploration, chiefly in the Western United States, Mexico and Venezuela, from 1900 to 1954. The collection centers on 64 photograph albums that span 50 years of Arnold's life and work. Photographs are accompanied by Arnold's typed captions identifying geological features; oil and mining activities; technical data; and dates and locations, i.e. often an oil or mining "district" or "field," such as "Sunset Field" (California). Subject matter includes geological and topographical features such as rock formations, faults and schisms, mountain structure, geothermal activity, and open land with potential drilling or mining spots. Earthquake faults are seen and described in many of Arnold's California investigations. There are also views of small and large-scale oil operations (by individuals and by organized companies); details of oil flow and reservoirs; asphalt; drilling equipment; workers and fields of oil wells. Arnold's work took him all over the Western United States, particularly California oil fields, but also Texas, Wyoming, Arizona, Alaska and other states. From 1911-1916 he was primarily in South America, and in the 1920s-1940s, mostly in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. Mining operations are the focus of some albums, showing investigations for tin, gold and other minerals; mines and ore processing, all with detailed descriptions. Arnold also often photographed people: colleagues and business associates, oil lease owners on their properties; workers (particularly Black and Asian workers in Venezuela); and friends and family. Personal photographs are throughout the album, such as of his wife, Winninette, and their two daughters; Stokes family members (Winninette's family) in South Pasadena; and alumni of Pasadena High School and Stanford University. Arnold was an avid gardener and the albums contain detail views of cactus and tropical plants, and scenes of Arnold collecting wild orchids in Trinidad, Venezuela and Mexico. The maps date from 1880-1948 and include U.S.G.S. and geological maps, California oil fields and well locations; layouts of mines, and various tract maps showing oil company-owned land.
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