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Title: Illustrations for
Pioneer days in Kern County by Arthur S. Crites
Creator:
Crites, Arthur S., 1879-1957.
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.94/5
Physical Description:
46 prints
46 photographic prints : b&w ; 22 x 28 cm or smaller + 4 maps + 50 leaves (typescript ; 28 cm)
Photographs are unbound, although the three holes punched along left margins suggest that they were once held in a 3-ring
looseleaf notebook. Versos of photographs contain editor's proof numbering and notes in black crayon, and inkstamp of "Cal
Williams Photo Service" [of Bakersfield?].
Spec. Coll. copy: Photographs are stacked in a modern beige cloth clamshell box, with box title "Illustrations for Pioneer
days in Kern County." Laid in with photographs are [50] typescript leaves containing editor's proofs of the cutlines or captions
for each photograph as they were to appear in the book; and four maps of Kern County in pencil (two folded), also used as
illustrations in the Crites' book.
Date (inclusive): between 1950 and 1951?
Abstract: Forty-six black-and-white photographic prints used to illustrate
Pioneer days in Kern County, an autobiographical account by Arthur S. Crites of his family, early education, and life as a young man and miner in Kern
County, California.
Physical Location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library Special Collections
for paging information.
Language of Material:
English
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[Identification of item], Illustrations for
Pioneer days in Kern County by Arthur S. Crites (Collection 94/5). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
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Probable range of dates suggested by publication date of book in which photographs appeared as illustrations.
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Scope and Content
The prints were made by Cal Williams Photo Service, using the author's own family photographs, and possibly photos from other
sources such as local historical societies and libraries. Family photographs include portraits of the author's parents--his
father, Angus McCloud Crites, his mother, Louisa Maria Jewett of Weybridge, Vermont, as well as the author as a young man
in uniform during the Spanish-American War in 1898, and his two brothers, Angus, and George. Several photographs show the
early homestead on Bear Mountain, near Bakersfield, where the family lived in the late 1880s and 1890s, the Keene School which
the author attended as a young boy (1890), and the Kern County High School class of 1893. There is also an early photo of
the Kern County Courthouse from 1888. Many of the photos describe the surrounding rugged landscape of the High Sierra, highlighting
Upper and Lower Kern Lake, and Golden Trout Creek, and Mt. Whitney. Other early photos of towns nearby include a grain thresher
in Weed Patch, Calif., the old school house in Tehachapi, and Main Street in the town of Havilah in the 1880s. After his discharge
from the army in 1898, Crites went to work as a bookkeeper on the Bellevue cattle ranch, 8 miles west of Bakersfield, and
there are several photos of ranching scenes, and the ranch headquarters. Also included are photographs documenting life of
the Indians of Kern County, such as an Indian woman collecting salt grass for basket-weaving, Indian farmers, and Indian petroglyphs
found on basaltic rocks near Black Mountain in northeastern Kern County. Several photographs show old Fort Tejon and the guardhouse.
Related Material
Additional information available in
Pioneer days in Kern County / by Arthur S. Crites. Los Angeles : The Ward Ritchie Press, 1951; and the
Arthur S. Crites papers (Collection 689), Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Petroglyphs -- California -- Kern County -- Photographs.
Ranches -- California -- Kern County -- Photographs.
Schools -- California -- Kern County -- Photographs.
Adobe houses -- California -- Kern County -- Photographs.
Threshing machines -- California -- Weed Patch -- Photographs.
Kern County (Calif.) -- Photographs.
Kern County (Calif.) -- Genealogy.
Weed Patch (Calif.) -- Photographs.
Tehachapi (Calif.) -- Photographs.
Havilah (Calif.) -- Photographs.
Photographic prints.
Fort Tejon (Calif.) -- Photographs.
Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) -- Photographs.
Frontier and pioneer life -- California -- Kern County -- Photographs.
Indians of North America -- California -- Photographs.
Crites, Arthur S., 1879-1957.
Crites, George Solomon, b. 1881.
Crites, Louisa Maria Jewett, b. 1833.
Cal Williams Photo Service.
Crites family.
Crites, Angus Jewett, b. 1874.
Crites, Angus McCloud, b. 1837.