B/W Photograph
Nevada State Prision, Carson City. Large block stone masonry building; one outter wall built at ~45 degree angle has an American flag painted (?) on the face. In the mid-ground is a row of four trees with their trunk bases painted white. There is a low fence running parallel to the street in the foreground and in the background are low, rolling hills.
- 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 #: 97.033