Edmund Jaeger

He was born in Loup City, Nebraska to Katherine (née Gunther) and John Philip Jaeger,[3]: V.I, p.159  and moved to Riverside, California in 1906 with his family.

[7] Jaeger first attended the newly relocated Occidental College in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles (in 1914), but moved to Palm Springs in 1915, where he taught at the one-room schoolhouse.

[8][9] These men formed what University of Arizona Professor Peter Wild called a "Creative Brotherhood"[3] that lived in Palm Springs in the early 20th century.

Other Brotherhood members included cartoonist and painter Jimmy Swinnerton,[8] author George Wharton James,[8] and photographers Fred Payne Clatworthy[8][10] and Stephen H.

[8] The men lived near each other (like Jaeger, Eytel built his own cabin),[11] traveled together throughout the Southwest, helped with each other's works, and exchanged photographs which appeared in their various books.