B/W Photograph
Main entrance, Nevada State Prison, Carson City. Large block stone masonry building with vines growing up the face of building. Three people are visible in the courtyard adjacent to the entrance. A guard is next to a guard station at the left of the building. There is a tree with the base of it's trunk painted white near the steps to the guard tower. A powerline is immediately behind the guard station and mountains are visible in the far distance.
- 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 #: 97.034