B/W Photograph
Jesse Peter (L) and Ed Lyman (R) on either side of sign at Donner Summit. The sign reads: "Donner Summit, Elev. 7135 Ft., California State Automobile Ass'n." The mountaintop in the background is covered with snow and sparsely dotted with trees. A power line is visible at the top center and left.
- Object: B/W Photograph
- Artist: George Switzer
- Circa: 1934
- Dimensions: 8 x 10 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.
- Donor: George Switzer
- Catalog #: 97.017