Notice the lush plant life around their home. A few short years prior to this, it was still your basic desert. This was before the brilliant idea of damming our great rivers, like the (once) mighty Sacramento, and sending water south. To places like Bakersfield, which had recently become a boomtown. People like my great-great grandfather settled here and reaped the benefits of the oil that oozed beneath his feet. To me, this is California's tragic legacy... it's beauty and resources are it's very undoing.
Title:
Blodget residenceCreator:
Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916.Subject:
Kern County (Calif.) -- PhotographsDescription:
Blodget residence in Bakersfield, man and two women and two children on the porch, another man leans against the stair post.Publisher:
Kern County LibraryDate:
[1889]Identifier:
kew0032Relation:
San Joaquin Valley Digitization ProjectBeale Memorial Library Local History Room (Bakersfield, Calif.)
4 comments:
That's really such an interesting photograph -- with all that personal and state history in it. How did you find it?
i found it on a webpage called calisphere-lots of interesting collections.
http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/
That's so cool to have that connection to the past. I've done a bit of genealogical research when I had the time (years ago) and found the stories I uncovered fascinating.
WOW!!!!!! that is soooo incredibly cool, Annie. Are you compiling all of this research and stuff into a family scrapbook? Oh what a treasure that would be for your children and grandchildren!! Not many of us can trace our families this far back w/ hard evidence like old photos, houses and documents. You are very fortunate.
"Having photos of your ancestors and knowing where you're from: Priceless"
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