N.6.97.21

Photograph, Negative, Glass Plate

1900 Approximate

Material: glass. Size: 4" W. x 5" L. x 1/16" D. Description: glass plate image: Clear Lake area, probably around the "Andy Stink"' in Waseca; appears to be an inlet in the foreground, with a hill and trees on both sides. Possibly mislabeled as Clear Lake 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.