N.6.97.124

Photograph, Negative, Glass Plate

1900

Material: glass. Size: 4" W. x 5" L. x 1/16" D. Description: glass plate image: three men "putting up" hay into a barn - one man in the hayloft door holds a hay fork, one man stands in a wagon and operates the hay load pulley mechanism, and one man stands to the side holding the horse at work - a woman and two little girls all wearing dresses and hats sit below on a small haystack - a team of horses are still attached to the wagon - setting is likely the Evergreen Stock Farm in Woodville Township, Waseca County owned by the Hawkes family.

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.