N.6.97.110

Photograph, Negative, Glass Plate

1908

Material: glass. Size: 4" W. x 5" L. x 1/16" D. Description: glass plate image: boy wearing light colored shorts, dark shirt and cap standing knee deep in Waseca's Clear Lake holding a fishing pole, bait bucket and net - identified as Sterling Hawkes.

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.