Archive Record

Metadata

Box / Folder

JHSSPC01.26

Folder Scope & Content

Florence Gibbs Switzer - Roosevelt High School Yearbook, Boyle Heights, Los Angeles

Collection

JHSSD Small Personal Collection

Collection Location

Special Collections & University Archives

Series

Papers, Personal

Dates of Creation

1931

Description

Florence Gibbs Switzer (1915,Chicago - 1995, Calgary, Canada) was a concert pianist who spent her senior year in San Diego and graduated from San Diego High School in 1933. Her parents, Meyer and Carrie Gibbs had a clothing store on 5th Ave in San Diego. The materials in this collection were donated by Switzer's son, Eric Switzer in 2018. Her collection includes: two photos, one of her senior play, the other of her, seated at the piano and a program from the Winter Concert of the San Diego High School Orchestra, featuring Miss Gibbs as a piano soloist, with newspaper clippings regarding the concert. There is also a copy of a page of the San Diego City Directory (1933), listing Florence and her parents and her 1933 Yearbook (Los Anos) from San Diego High School plus the 1931 yearbook, (Round-Up) from Roosevelt High School in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, containing many inscriptions from her classmates.