N.6.97.15

Photograph, Negative, Glass Plate

1898

Possible Courthouse Park Area. Material: glass. Size: 4" W. x 5" L. x 1/16" D. Description: glass plate image: river bed with woods on either side near Minneopa Falls in Minneopa State Park in South Bend Township in Blue Earth County; set of 2 negatives with N.6.97.15-16. Possibly mislabeled 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.