N.6.97.132

Photograph, Negative, Glass Plate

1901

Material: glass. Size: 4" W. x 5" L. x 1/16" D. Description: glass plate image: elderly woman with center parted hair pulled to the back, wearing long striped skirt, long sleeved blouse, sits outdoors in a chair - house and foliage in background; identified as Mrs. Bennett, Waseca.

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.