N.6.97.105

Photograph, Negative, Glass Plate

1898

Fourth of July Social Group On Lawn. Material: glass. Size: 4" W. x 5" L. x 1/16" D. Description: glass plate - subject: five women in long dresses, a mustached man in a three-piece suit and bow tie and two young girls in dark dresses, center parted hair sitting on and near hammock, house in background - three U.S. flags; 4th of July celebration. Fourth of July. 4th of July. July 4th.

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.