N.6.97.17

Photograph, Negative, Glass Plate

1910

Material: glass. Size: 4" W. x 5" L. x 1/16" D. Description: glass plate image: boy holding a rifle, standing on a flat rock at the edge of a river with woods on either side; identified as Clear Lake but more probably near Minneopa Falls in Minneopa State Park in South Bend Township in Blue Earth County; boy tentatively identified as Sterling Hawkes; set of 2 negatives with N.6.97.17-18. 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.