N.6.97.96

Photograph, Negative, Glass Plate

1904

Material: glass. Size: 4" W. x 5" L. x 1/16" D. Description: glass plate image: small boy dressed in a belted tunic, shorts and long stockings stands in front of foliage; hair combed to the side; identified as Sterling Hawkes, age 4; almost the same shot as N.6.97.95

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.