Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of an exterior view of an adobe jacketed in new siding in Bakersfield, 1938. What appears to be the back porch of the adobe is shown behind the foliage of a tree to its left and one in the right foreground. Its facade has been covered in what appears to be wood clapboard. The image has been taken from a clearing in the foreground that appears to be surrounded by a chickenwire fence. Northwest of McKittrick in the Temblor Mountains, the adobe was one of the aguajes or water holes along Camino Viego. Tradition says that while a party of early Spanish explorers camped at the cite an earthquake rent the earth and a copious spring of water ran from the earth. The country is almost devoid of foliation, but at this place immense cottonwoods, some measuring ten feet through the trunk, and fig trees, some measuring more than five feet through the trunk, surround the deserted ranch buildings. The road to the ranch runs through the lease of the Outpost Oil Company in the Temblor Oil Field.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w 21 x 26 cm. photographic prints photographs
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