N.6.97.106

Photograph, Negative, Glass Plate

1908

Material: glass. Size: 4" W. x 5" L. x 1/16" D. Description: glass plate negative - image: boy wearing overalls and long sleeved shirt standing on horseback, a dog sitting beside boy on horseback - horse has bit and reins but no saddle - identified as Sterling Hawkes; probably taken at the Evergreen Stock Farm in Woodville Township, Waseca County.

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.