B/W Photograph
Jesse Peter (left) and prison guard standing at the entrance to a tunnel, location unknown. The tunnel entrance has electrical wiring mounted overhead and the overall appearance of the site is that of a quarry (see other photos in this series donated by G. Switzer). Peter has some equipment in his hands, possibly some of the camera gear. Behind Peter, on the other side of a chain-link fence, a hoe leans against the rock wall.
- 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 #: 97.032