N.6.97.79
Photograph, Negative, Glass Plate
1900
Material: glass. Size: 4" W. x 5" L. x 1/16" D. Description: glass plate image: woman dressed in long skirt and long sleeved blouse sits on a doorstep supporting a baby boy beside her - identified as Annie and Sterling Hawkes, aunt & nephew; similar shot to N.6.97.80.
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.