B/W Photograph
L to R: William Nisson, Jesse Peter, George Switzer, prison guard. Nisson and Peter are pouring plaster from a bucket into a feature on the ground, presumably making a mold of the feature. Switzer kneels nearby, holding a broom and a prison guard stands at the right of the photo, hands in pockets, watching the process.
- Object: B/W Photograph
- Artist: Ed Lyman (with G. Switzer's camera)
- 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 #: 97.031