N.6.97.24

Photograph, Negative, Glass Plate

1900

Material: glass. Size: 4" W. x 5" L. x 1/16" D. Description: glass plate image: Loon Lake in Waseca, a long expanse of grass along shoreline; island framed by trees; a woman tentatively identified as Allie Hawkes sits on the grass; a boy, tentatively identified as Sterling Hawkes, stands on the other side.

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.