Jack Maguire Local History Room

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The Jack Maguire Local History Room at the Beale Memorial Library houses the Local History Collection, which contains the following type of material:

• County and community histories
• Local agency publications
• County and City government publications, including Environmental Impact Reports (EIRs)
• Fiction and non-fiction books written by Kern County authors
• Local magazines
• Histories of neighboring counties
• Selected material on John Steinbeck, especially as related to the Grapes of Wrath
• Selected historical photographs, including Army explorations and surveys, Anza, Garces, Beale, Walker, the U.S. War Department, and many others
• California Indian tribes, books about overland journeys, and material about outlaws who were active in Kern County and California
• Bakersfield City Directories from 1899 through the present
• Directories of other Kern County cities as well as phone books and the Haines Directory from 1972 to present
• Index to the Bakersfield Californian

View a 1969 Suggested Development Areas map of El Tejon. (Adobe PDF, 800 KB)

Hours

Evening hours after 6 p.m. Monday - Thursday by appointment. Call (661) 868-0770.

Mail or fax arrangements may be made by calling the Local History Librarian at (661) 868-0775