N.6.97.71

Photograph, Negative, Glass Plate

1900

Material: glass. Size: 4" W. x 5" L. x 1/16" D. Description: glass plate image: man identified as Charles Hawkes, kneels on one knee in the grass wearing a suit and hat and holding his baby son, Sterling Hawkes; pillow in foreground; foliage in background.; almost the same shot as N.6.97.125

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.