N.6.97.112

Photograph, Negative, Glass Plate

1908

Material: glass. Size: 4" W. x 5" L. x 1/16" D. Description: glass plate image: three small girls beside a big log with a house and building in the background - two girls sit on a log, one stands near it - each girl wears a dark dress with their hair pulled back with bows - probably the daughters of Allen and Cora (Cummings) Hawkes, Carol (age 7), Mildred (age 5), Louise (age 3) - possible posed at the Evergreen Stock Farm in Woodville Township in 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.