Printed from Howes Brothers glass plate print. Alvah, Walter and George Howe were residents of Ashfield, Massachusetts who between 1886 and 1906 took over over 20,000 dry plate images of life in the Pioneer Valley. The photograph in our collection is purportedly by them, and yet the date does not match their years of work. We will need to learn whether the year is incorrect or whether this is an incorrect attribution.