N.6.97.116

Photograph, Negative, Glass Plate

1898

Hawkes Family Posed Seated on Lawn by House. Material: glass. Size: 4" W. x 5" L. x 1/16" D. Description: glass plate image: seven people sit on a blanket near a house; four women dressed in long dresses; three men in three-piece suits and bow ties; identified as "The Whole Family"; probably Samuel and Caroline Hawkes and their children, Charles, Allen, Hannah, Julie & Annie of Waseca.

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.