Description:
Photograph of a man in a hat on a hay mower being drawn by a horse, large tree on the left and on the right is an 18th-century house; .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. 1695." 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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