B/W Photograph
L to R: Ed Lyman, Jesse Peter, William Nisson. The men are standing on the sidewalk (made of wooden planks) in front of a brick building. Nisson is leaning on a wooden partition that has 2 pieces of paper posted one of which partially reads: "Comstock Guide Service" seemingly some sort of advertisement. The wall has shreds of old paper still attatched and paint chipping off which gives it the appearance of a public bulletin board. According to the photo caption, this could be in Virginia City, 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 #: 97.022