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  • John and Jane Adams Postcard Collection

Bakersfield Eating House, Bakersfield, California

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Bakersfield Eating House, Bakersfield, California
PC-002-631
Bakersfield Eating House, Bakersfield, California
Men congregate in front of a two-story building with stone steps leading up to the front porch. Tracks are in the foreground, trees in the middle ground. In 1878, Fred Harvey, in partnership with the head of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, began to open restaurants, then hotels as well as dining cars, along the railroad lines. At his death in 1901 there were 47 restaurants in 12 states. After a name change to the Harvey House Restaurant, this one was demolished in 1972 along with the original train station next to it. Fred Harvey is listed as publisher on the divided back.
Bakersfield; Harvey Houses; Restaurants; Eating houses
1501 F Street
California - Bakersfield
  • John and Jane Adams Postcard Collection
MS-0008
Fred Harvey Trading Co., Kansas City, Missouri
Postcard
3.5 inches X 5.5 inches
No
Photographs in the Fred Harvey Collection, 1896-1945, AZ 326 in the University of Arizona Libraries Special Collections, Tucson.
  • San Diego State University Library and Information Access, Special Collections and University Archives
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TIFF
21.43 MB
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