N.6.97.115

Photograph, Negative, Glass Plate

1902

Students Posed with Teacher Hawkes on Steps of Oak Grove School. Material: glass. Size: 4" W. x 5" L. x 1/16" D. Description: glass plate image: twenty-seven people standing in front of Oak Grove School, Waseca; boys and girls in front, a man and women in the back; identified as Miss Hawkes' (Julia or Annie) Class.

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.