N.6.97.12

Photograph, Negative, Glass Plate

1900

Waseca County Courthouse. Material: glass. Size: 4" W. x 5" L. x 1/16" D. Description: glass plate image: Waseca County Courthouse as seen from the opposite street corner, the jail and the east and south sides of the courthouse and a hanging street light in the middle of the intersection.

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.