N.6.97.97

Photograph, Negative, Glass Plate

1908

Material: glass. Size: 4" W. x 5" L. x 1/16" D. Description: glass plate image: boy dressed in light colored long pants, dark, long-sleeved shirt, cap and gloves sits on a saddled horse with feet in the stirrups; probably at the Evergreen Stock Farm in Woodville Township in Waseca County; identified as Sterling Hawkes, age 8; almost the same shot as N.6.97.98

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.