N.6.97.118

Photograph, Negative, Glass Plate

1904

Carol and Mildred Hawkes. Material: glass. Size: 4" W. x 5" L. x 1/16" D. Description: glass plate image: two girls in dark dresses sit on the grass near a house; the older girl wears a hair bow and holds a doll in her lap; identified as Carol (age 3) and Mildred (age 1), daughters of Allen and Cora (Cummings) 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.