B/W Photograph
Four men, L to R: George Switzer, Ed Lyman, William H. Nisson, Jesse Peter. They are standing in front of bushes which border a brick building with a shingled roof.
- Object: B/W Photograph
- Artist: George Switzer
- Circa: 1934
- Dimensions: 8 x10 in.
- Culture Area: -
- Cultural Group: -
- Cultural Context: Jesse Peter was a woodshop teacher at Santa Rosa Middle School and a good friend of Floyd P. Bailey who was president of the Jr. College at that time. Peter would conduct field expeditions in order to gather specimens of various sorts for display at the SRJC Natural History Museum (which subsequently evolved into the Native American Art Museum). He solicited the assistance of college students to help collect the specimens and these photos are from one of those expeditions. George and Ed were both second year students at SRJC. William was a student at Marin JC and had helped Jesse Peter assemble a collection of Sonoma County minerals for the natural history museum. Switzer later went on to get his Ph.D. at Harvard and became the Curator of Mineralogy at the Smithsonian Institution from 1948-1975. Peter and Nisson are both deceased and the whereabouts of Lyman is unknown. (see caption that accompanies photo in binder)
- Donor: George Switzer
- Catalog #: 97.015