Jack Maguire Local History Room
Named for major benefactor Jack Maguire (1913-1985),
the Local History collection contains over 20,000
books, pamphlets, periodicals, newsletters, vault
materials, and vertical files on over 900 subjects.
The room's most popular items include Bakersfield
City Directories dating back to 1899; Kern County
Telephone directories dating back to 1940; and donated
elementary, junior high, high school, and college
yearbooks mainly from the 1960s and 1970s. Some primary
sources in the collection go as far back as the 1800s.
The collection materials do not check out and can
only be used in the Jack Maguire Local History Room.
Hours are subject to staff availability, to insure access please call a week in advance of your visit,
What's New in Local History
Hours
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For an appointment, call (661) 868-0770.
Local History Digitization Grant Project
Kern County Library is one of twenty California libraries
participating in the Local History Digital Resources
Project. The goal of this project is to create an
online archive of two-hundred local history photographs
that are not usually seen by the public and illuminate
the multifaceted story of Kern County. Our previous
digitation project, The San Joaquin Valley and Sierra
Foothills Photo heritage collection, is available
online at http://63.146.74.36/photoheritage/ .
J.P. "Jack" Maguire Local History Map
Collection
View an interactive map of historical places in Kern County.
These historic maps create a visual documentation
of long established streets, buildings, land use,
and real estate in Kern County:
- Aerial Maps of Kern County in 1950
- Aerial Index of Maps of Kern County from 1973
to 1975
- Agricultural, flood, and land use maps
- Historic maps of Kern County and Bakersfield
Available Finding Aids and Indices
Finding aids are browsable guides to the collections in the Jack Maguire
Local History Room |
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View
a 1969 Suggested Development Areas map of El Tejon. (Adobe
PDF, 800 KB)
Mail or fax arrangements may be made by calling the
Local History Librarian at (661) 868-0775
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