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  • The golden empire : Kern County, California / by Eugene Burmeister.

    • Text
    • Beverly Hills, Calif. : Autograph Press, 1977.
    • 1977
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text IXH (Kern Co.) 78-1706Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • Official map of Kern County, California, compiled 1892, by W. R. Macmurdo.

    • Text
    • Bakersfield, Calif., Kern County Genealogical Society, 1978.
    • 1978
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Map Div. 79-186Schwarzman Building - Map Division Room 117

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  • Statistical-economic profile, Kern County / Kern County Board of Trade.

    • Text
    • Bakersfield, Calif. : The Board
    • 198-198
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JLM 85-416 1980Offsite
  • Statistical and economic profile, Kern County / Kern County Board of Trade.

    • Text
    • Bakersfield, Calif. : The Board
    • 198-19
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JLM 85-415 1983Offsite
  • Murray's map Bakersfield : including Delano, Oildale, Ridgecrest, Tehachapi, complete road map of Kern County.

    • Cartographic
    • Belmont, CA : The Map Box, [1985], c1972.
    • 1985-1972
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Cartographic Map Div. 90-5175Schwarzman Building - Map Division Desk Room 117

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  • Family histories and genealogies of the Kern County Genealogical Society : commemorating the Kern County Centennial 1866-1966.

    • Text
    • Bakersfield, Calif. : The Society, [1966].
    • 1966
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text APR (Kern Co., Calif.) 90-3360Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Mezzanine Room 121

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  • Photographs of California depicting social and economic conditions in various urban and rural settings with miscellaneous landscape and cityscape scenes [graphic] / Dorothea Lange.

    • Still image
    • 193--1957.
    • 1930-1957
  • Cowboy country / by Bob Powers.

    • Text
    • Glendale, Calif. : A.H. Clark Co., 1988, c1987.
    • 1988-1987
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFF 89-155Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • A memorial and biographical history of the counties of Fresno, Tulare and Kern, California. Illustrated. Containing a history of this important section of the Pacific coast from the earliest period ... and biographical mention of many of its pioneers, and also of prominent citizens to today ...

    • Text
    • Chicago, The Lewis publishing company, [1892?]
    • 1892
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text IXH (Fresno county) (Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago. Memorial and biographical history)Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • Indian Wells Valley handbook.

    • Text
    • [China Lake, Calif.] 1967.
    • 1967
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text IXH (Kern Co.) (American Association of University Women. China Lake Branch. Indian Wells Valley handbook)Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • Where rolls the Kern; a history of Kern County, California, by Herbert G. Comfort.

    • Text
    • Moorpark, Calif., The Enterprise Press, 1934.
    • 1934
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text IXH (Kern Co.) (Comfort, H. G. Where rolls the Kern)Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • History of Kern County, California, with personal sketches of those wonderful men and women, past and present, who have builded this "glorious empire within an empire" / by Thelma B. Miller.

    • Text
    • Chicago : S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1929.
    • 1929
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text IXH (Kern County) (Miller, T. B. History of Kern county, California) v. 1 (1929)Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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    Text IXH (Kern County) (Miller, T. B. History of Kern county, California) v. 2 (1930)Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • Kern County is our home.

    • Text
    • [Bakersfield? Calif. : s.n., 1950].
    • 1950
    • 1 Item
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    Text IXH (Kern Co.) (Rodgers, G. J. Kern County is our home)Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • The Tracy saga, by Fannie C. Tracy [and] Glendon J. Rodgers.

    • Text
    • Bakersfield, Calif.] Cardon House, 1962.
    • 1962
    • 1 Item
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    Text IXH (Kern Co.) (Tracy, F. C. R. Tracy saga)Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • Kern County centennial almanac.

    • Text
    • Bakersfield, Calif., 1966.
    • 1966
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text IXH (Kern Co.) (Kern County Centennial Observance Committee. Kern County centennial almanac)Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • Kern County cemeteries : Union Cemetery sexton records, Bakersfield, California.

    • Text
    • Bakersfield, Calif. : The Society, 1967-
    • 1967-present
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text APR (Kern Co., Calif.) (Kern County Genealogical Society, Bakersfield, Calif. Kern county cemeteries) Library has: Vol.1,pt.1-2Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • The 1875 residents of Glenville, Panama, Piute and Sageland, Kern County, California / Sherman Lee Pompey.

    • Text
    • Bakersfield, Calif. : Historical and Genealogical Pub., [196-?]
    • 1960-1969
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text APB p.v. 164 no. 1-38Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • Kern county, California.

    • Text
    • San Francisco, issued by Sunset magazine Homeseekers' Bureau for the Kern County Board of Trade, 1914.
    • 1914
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text IXH p.v. 4 no. 1-13Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Two radio speeches, by Stanley Abel.

    • Text
    • [Kern?] Calif., 1939.
    • 1939
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text IXZ+ p.v. 338 No. 1-4Offsite
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  • The story of Kern County.

    • Text
    • Los Angeles [Bakersfield] Calif., Title Insurance and Title Co. [c1961]
    • 1961
    • 1 Item
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    Text IXZ p.v. 617 no. 1-12Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Early days in Kern.

    • Text
    • Bakersfield, Calif., Cardon House [1963]
    • 1963
    • 1 Item
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    Text IXZ p.v. 639 no. 1-8Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • High Country communities / by Bob Powers ; foreword by Eugene Burmeister.

    • Text
    • Spokane, Wash. : Arthur H. Clark Co., 1999.
    • 1999
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text IXH (Kern Co.) 00-7854Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • Report on Fourth Road District--Kern County, California. An analysis of road finances and operation of the district for the year ending June 30, 1929, prepared by California Taxpayers' Association ...

    • Text
    • Los Angeles, 1930.
    • 1930
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text TIA+ (California Taxpayers' Association. Association report. no. 85)Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Annual publication / Kern County Historical Society.

    • Text
    • Bakersfield, Calif. : The Society
    • 19-
    • 14 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text IXH (Kern Co.) (Kern Country Historical Society, Bakersfield, Calif. Annual publication) V. 28Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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    Text IXH (Kern Co.) (Kern Country Historical Society, Bakersfield, Calif. Annual publication) v. 29Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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    Text IXH (Kern Co.) (Kern Country Historical Society, Bakersfield, Calif. Annual publication) v. 30Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • Durham's place names of central California : includes Madera, Fresno, Tulare, Kings & Kern counties / David L. Durham.

    • Text
    • Clovis, Calif : Word Dancer Press, c2001.
    • 2001
    • 1 Item
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    Text IXHB 02-2459Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • African American women trailblazers : a celebration of Africa's gift to Kern County / Fred Luther Haynes ; photographs, Ron Littlejohn.

    • Text
    • [Bloomington, Ind.] : Xlibris, c2009.
    • 2009
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc E 10-1255Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Hileman's gem, mineral & 4-wheel drive map of Last Chance Canyon, Kern Co., Calif [cartographic material] : with Mesquite Canyon and Iron Canyon.

    • Cartographic
    • Los Angeles, c1968.
    • 1968
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Cartographic Map Div. 81-3101Schwarzman Building - Map Division Desk Room 117

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  • Archeological investigations at Buena Vista Lake, Kern County, California / by Waldo R. Wedel ; with appendix, Skeletal remains from the Buena Vista sites, California, by T.D. Stewart.

    • Text
    • Washington : U.S. G.P.O., 1941.
    • 1941
    • 1 Item
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    Text HBB (United States. American Ethnology Bureau. Bulletin. 130) [no. 130-131]Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • City street map, Bakersfield, Kern County : Arvin, Delano, Lake Isabella, Maricopa, McFarland, Shafter, Taft, Wasco & adjoining communities, plus county map / GM Johnson & Associates Ltd.

    • Cartographic
    • Burnaby, BC : GM Johnson & Associates Ltd., [2012]
    • 2012-2012
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Cartographic Map Div. 14-6120Schwarzman Building - Map Division Desk Room 117

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  • The Bakersfield Californian [electronic resource].

    • Text
    • Bakersfield, Kern County, Calif. : A. Harrell, 1908-
    • 1908-present
    • 2 Resources

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  • Daily midway driller [electronic resource].

    • Text
    • Taft, Calif. : Ed Scripps
    • 1968-present
    • 2 Resources

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  • California (Kern County), Kern River oil field : (north sheet) of Kern River oil field / U.S. Geological Survey ; E.M. Douglas, geographer.

    • Cartographic
    • [Washington, D.C.] : The Survey, 1915.
    • 1915
    • 2 Items
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    Cartographic Map Div. 23-1520 North sheetSchwarzman Building - Map Division Desk Room 117

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    Cartographic Map Div. 23-1520 South sheetSchwarzman Building - Map Division Desk Room 117

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  • Geologic map of California, Bakersfield sheet / compilation by Arthur R. Smith, 1964.

    • Cartographic
    • [San Francisco, Calif.] : California Division of Mines and Geology, 1964
    • 1964
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Cartographic MapOff-site
  • History of Kern County, California, with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its growth and development from the early days to the present / history by Wallace M. Morgan.

    • Text
    • Los Angeles, Cal : Historic Record Company, 1914.
    • 1914
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text 975K459 M823Off-site
  • Resources of the southern San Joaquin Valley, California : Fresno, Tulare and Kern counties : topography, soil, climate, productions, railroads, and general advantages : 1,000,000 acres of government lands subject to homestead and pre-emption.

    • Text
    • San Francisco : Immigration Association of California, [1885]
    • 1885
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text 338.075 Im6Off-site
  • Prehistory of Kern County : an overview / Robert A. Schiffman, Alan P. Garfinkel.

    • Text
    • [Bakersfield, Calif.?] : Bakersfield College, [1981]
    • 1981
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text N.A.ARC. Sch 34 pOff-site
  • The golden empire : Kern County, California / by Eugene Burmeister.

    • Text
    • Beverly Hills, Calif. : Autograph Press, 1977.
    • 1977
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text F868.K3 B83Off-site
  • Land, water, and settlement in Kern County, California, 1850-1890 / Margaret Aseman Cooper Zonlight.

    • Text
    • New York : Arno Press, 1979.
    • 1979
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text HD211.C2 Z66 1979Off-site
  • The Tracy saga, by Fannie C. Tracy [and] Glendon J. Rodgers.

    • Text
    • Bakersfield, Calif.] Cardon House, 1962.
    • 1962
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text F868.K3 T7Off-site
  • Lest we forget : the history of the French in Kern County / by Mary Grace Paquette.

    • Text
    • Fresno, Calif. : Kern County Historical Society : County of Kern through its Museum, 1978, 1979 printing.
    • 1978
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text F868.K3 P34 x, 1978Off-site
  • Inside Historic Kern : selections from the Kern County Historical Society's quarterly, 1949-1981 / editors, W. Harland Boyd, John Ludeke, Marjorie Rump.

    • Text
    • Bakersfield, Calif. : Kern County Historical Society, 1982.
    • 1982
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text F868.K3 I57 1982Off-site
  • The Desert lands of Kern County, Cal. Affidavits of various residents of said county. Also report of Gen. B. S. Alexander, Col. Geo. H. Mendell and Prof. Geo. Davidson. With descriptive maps.

    • Text
    • San Francisco, C. H. Street, 1877.
    • 1877
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Eng 1048.77.5Off-site
  • Historic Kern County : an illustrated history of Bakersfield and Kern County / by Chris Brewer ; [Jeff Nickell, photo editor].

    • Text
    • San Antonio, Tex. : Historical Pub. Network, c2001.
    • 2001
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text F868.K3 B74 2001Off-site
  • Our valley, our choice : building a livable future for the San Joaquin Valley / [Great Valley Center ; cover art, design, layout by Ian Shimkoviak].

    • Text
    • Berkeley, Calif. : Heyday Books, c2007.
    • 2007
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text F868.C45 O97 2007Off-site
  • Location, resources, attractions and development of the Kern Delta, Kern County, California : and its exhibit at the World's Columbian Exposition.

    • Text
    • Bakersfield, Kern County, CA : Kern County World's Fair Association, 1893
    • 1893
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text F88.K3 L63 1893Off-site
  • The Chinese of Kern County, 1857-1960 / William Harland Boyd ; foreword by Mary Sue Ming ; oral history : Jerry Ludeke, Ellen G. Miller, Eleanor Kimm Peterson, Kimberly Loke Whitaker.

    • Text
    • Bakersfield, Calif. : Kern County Historical Society, 2002.
    • 2002
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text F868.K3 B68 2002Off-site
  • The three valleys of the Tehachapi : Bear, Brite, and Cummings / Gloria Hine Gossard.

    • Text
    • Charleston SC : Arcadia, ©2005.
    • 2005
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text F868.K3 G67 2005Off-site
  • Kern's desert.

    • Text
    • Bakersfield, Calif., 1956.
    • 1956
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text F868.K3P4 1956Off-site
  • The story of Kern County / by W. W. Robinson.

    • Text
    • Bakersfield ; Los Angeles, Calif. : Title Insurance and Trust Company, 1963, c1961.
    • 1963-1961
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text F868.K3R635 1963Off-site
  • History of Kern County, California, with illustrations descriptive of its scenery, farms, residences, public buildings ... with biographical sketches.

    • Text
    • San Francisco, Wallace W. Elliott & Co., 1883.
    • 1883
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text 1109.356.46qOff-site

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