Kern County Land Company Promotional Photograph Album, negatives exposed approximately 1885-1900, album compiled approximately 1900.

Summary

Title:

Kern County Land Company promotional photograph album

Dates:

negatives exposed approximately 1885-1900, album compiled approximately 1900.

Creators:

Kern County Land Company and Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916

Abstract:

Promotional album containing views of the Kern County Land Company's buildings and views illustrating various aspects of the regional agriculture and other benefits of living and/or investing in the area.

Extent:

60 photographs in 1 album

Language:

English

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Kern County Land Company promotional photograph album, BANC PIC 2017.051, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Background

Scope and content:

Promotional album containing views of the Kern County Land Company's buildings, including exterior and interior views of the main Bakersfield office complex (later known as the Tevis Block and designated as a California Historical Landmark) and the buildings of the machine shops, meat packing department and flour mill. Also includes Kern County views illustrating various aspects of the regional agriculture and other benefits of living and/or investing in the area -- e.g. residential buildings, transportation, electrical power, lodgings, school, church, courthouse, hospital, jail, etc. -- many of them in Bakersfield. Other Kern County locations and features depicted include Stockdale, Kern City, the Calloway Canal, Buena Vista Lake and the Kern River.

Biographical / historical:

The Kern County Land Company was founded by James Haggin and Lloyd Tevis in 1890.

Acquisition information:

Kern County Land Company promotional photograph album was purchased by The Bancroft Library from Walkabout Books in 2017.

Physical location:

For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.

Physical facet:

: chiefly platinum prints

Dimensions:

; prints various sizes, album 27 x 35 cm

Rules or conventions:

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Related resources

Other descriptive data:

Item list entries transcribed from hand-written captions on album leaves and/or captions printed, from negatives, within photographs.

Most views by unidentified photographers. Includes at least 5 views (:20, :41, and at least three of the montage images within :38) identified as the work of photographer Carleton E. Watkins, who in 1888 was commissioned by the founders of the company to document Kern County. Several other images are very likely to be the work of Watkins, a set of which is found, numbering 418 photographs, at the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division (Lot 3379).

Uniform tone of prints suggests they were printed specifically for this project, around 1900, probably from earlier negatives or in some cases, copy negatives.

Indexed terms

Subjects:

Kern County Land Company -- Photographs
Agriculture -- California -- Kern County -- Photographs
Kern County (Calif.) -- Photographs
Bakersfield (Calif.) -- Photographs

Names:

Kern County Land Company
Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:

Bancroft Library Staff

Date Encoded:

This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2018-08-21 16:47:41 -0700 .

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

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Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Kern County Land Company promotional photograph album, BANC PIC 2017.051, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Location of this collection:

UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library

Berkeley, CA 94720-6000, US

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