B/W Photograph
Brick post office building with chipped plaster and peeling paper (remnants of old posters) on one outside wall. The Chevy expedition wagon used by Peter and his assistants is parked in front of the post office. In the foreground is one pole, part of the powerline, with a series of glass transformers on pegs in a row at the top. In the background is a mountain covered with sparse vegetation and a few patches of snow. Caption with photo indicates that this might be 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 #: 97.027