B/W Photograph
Man (unidentified) standing next to geologic chart titled, "Cenozoic Fossils of the West Coast." At the top of the chart is the columnar section and across the bottom is the cross section, identifying the geologic make-up of the coast ranges in the vicinity of Mt. Diablo. The caption accompanying the photo states that this photo is "not of expedition, but among the negatives."
- Object: B/W Photograph
- Artist: George Switzer
- Circa: 1934
- Dimensions: 8 x 10 in.
- Culture Area: -
- Cultural Group: -
- Cultural Context: This photo was donated by George Switzer, in 1989, along with a series of photographs from a field expedition he took with Jesse Peter, a teacher at Santa Rosa Middle School. Peter was an amature geologist/archaeologist/anthropologist and often took junior college students, like Switzer, on field expeditions to gather specimens. Those collections became the basis of a natural history museum at SRJC, which later evolved into the Native American Art Museum. Since Switzer donated this picture with the others (see Accession numbers 97.015 through 97.042), it has been kept in that context as a collection.
- Donor: George Switzer
- Catalog #: 97.043