N.6.97.72

Photograph, Negative, Glass Plate

1900

Material: glass. Size: 4" W. x 5" L. x 1/16" D. Description: glass plate image: mustached man wearing suit pants, vest, shirt and tie reclines on a doorstep, hat is in his lap; man props up a baby; identified as Charles and Sterling Hawkes, father and son.

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.