N.6.97.14

Photograph, Negative, Glass Plate

1900 Approximate

Andy Stink Waterway Between Clear and Loon Lakes. Material: glass. Size: 4" W. x 5" L. x 1/16" D. Description: glass plate image: Clear Lake area in Waseca, a river bed with sloping banks; tentatively identified as "Andy Stink", the waterway between Clear and Loon Lakes. Possibly mislabeled as Clear Lake and might be a steep sandy cliff in Courthouse Park, Little Le Sueur River. Photograph taken along the Little Le Sueur 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.