Description:
Photograph mounted on cardboard depicting a family gathered on the front lawn of an early 19th-century brick house, possibly Historic Deerfield's Stebbins House (to be determined with more research), there is a large barn on the right hand side; in the fore ground are three farm hands with three horses, two women at a table, a woman seated in a chair, and a man seated on a chair, on the reverse of the photo is the printed inscription, "A. W. & G. E. HOWES,/ PHOTOGRAPHERS./ ASHFIELD, MASS./ Parties wanting more/ Photographs like this/ must give year and/ number as on this card/ Be sure and give the number and year right./ FOR 1897/ No. 1191." Alvah and George Howes of Ashfield, Massachusetts were early experts in the field of photography. The two brothers were also businessmen. They systematically photographed houses and then offered to sell these photographs to residents. They produced many thousands of images whose glass plate negatives are now housed at the Ashfield, Massachusetts Historical Society. It transmits important information about the housing and culture of middle class Americans.
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