B/W Photograph
Apparently a little car trouble on the expedition....three people are peering under the right front hood of the car and the other side of the hood (left front) is visibly raised as well. The car is stopped on a gravel road in thehigh desert, sagebrush and other scrub noticable in the foreground and immediate background. Deeper in the background and along the horizon are snow-covered mountains, possibly the Sierra Nevada.
- 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 fieldexpeditions 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 #: 97.019