Kern County Land Company Promotional Photograph Album

Bancroft Library Staff

The Bancroft Library

2018

The Bancroft Library

University of California

Berkeley, CA 94720-6000

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Language of Material: English

Contributing Institution: The Bancroft Library

Title: Kern County Land Company promotional photograph album

Creator: Kern County Land Company

creator: Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916

Identifier/Call Number: BANC PIC 2017.051--fALB

Physical Description: 60 photographs in 1 album : chiefly platinum prints ; prints various sizes, album 27 x 35 cm

Date (inclusive): negatives exposed approximately 1885-1900, album compiled approximately 1900.

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.

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Collection is open for research.

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Immediate Source of Acquisition

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

Organizational History

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

Note

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

Note

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).

Note

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

Preferred Citation

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

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.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Kern County Land Company -- Photographs

Agriculture -- California -- Kern County -- Photographs

Kern County (Calif.) -- Photographs

Bakersfield (Calif.) -- Photographs

Kern County Land Company

Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916

volume (fALB), item 1

[Photograph of 1891 map of California, with Kern County delineated for emphasis]