B/W Photograph
Unidentified western town looking down a narrow street with brick buildings on both sides and a couple of cars in the mid-ground of the photo. A sign hanging on front of one building reads "Hotel Virginia" which may indicate that this is Virginia City, Nevada. There are also power lines running the length of the street on both sides, and a mountain with sparse vegetation, typical of the high desert, is visible in the background.
- 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 #: 97.021