N.6.97.99

Photograph, Negative, Glass Plate

1900

Older Women Posed Beside House. Material: glass. Size: 4" W. x 5" L. x 1/16" D. Description: glass plate image: six women wearing long dresses, one wears an apron also; four in front each sit in a chair; two stand behind; house beside them; identified "Six Grandmothers"; almost the same shot as N.6.97.100

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.