N.6.97.129

Photograph, Negative, Glass Plate

1908

Material: glass. Size: 4" W. x 5" L. x 1/16" D. Description: glass plate image: mustached man dressed in a three-piece suit and bow tie and identified as Charles Hawkes - boy wearing knickers and long sleeved shirt and identified as Charles' son, Sterling - both sit astride saddled horses - trees in background - setting may be the Evergreen Stock Farm in Woodville Township, Waseca County.

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.