N.6.97.3

Photograph, Negative, Glass Plate

1898

Group at Minneopa State Park. Material: glass. Size: 4" W. x 5" L. x 1/16" D. Description: glass plate image: groups of people standing in a river bed at Minneopa Falls in Minneopa State Park, South Bend Township, Blue Earth County. Possibly mislabeled and might be a steep sandy cliff in Courthouse Park, Little LeSueur River. Photograph taken along the Little LeSueur River when the water was extremely shallow.

Lloyd Peterson was an electrician. The glass-plate negatives came into Peterson's possession from his wife's cousin, Gertrude Lewer whose father was August Frisk. Frisk lived next to Charles Hawkes and did handy work for him. The negatives probably belonged to the Hawkes family.