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. In 1877 a north-south route was built through the village of Waseca by the Minneapolis and St. Louis (M & St. L). There were stations at Palmer, Waseca, Otisco and New Richland. The line became part of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad in 1960 and then was sold to the DM & E in 1986. On March 22, 1959 service was discontinued for the last passenger train, the “Doodlebug”, which was a one-car train that had carried passengers, freight, and mail. The line was abandoned north of Waseca in 1984 and is currently out of service to the south.
