This picture is probably of the family of William B. Pulsifer (1848-1903) of Conway, Massachusetts, who had married Nettie Wilson of Shelburne, Massachusetts, in 1875.  They had four children, only two of whom survived infancy. The boy sitting on the grass is probably Leon Wilson Pulsifer (b. 1888), and the woman standing next to the tree is probably Pulisfer’s other surviving child, Loula May Bates (b. 1881). The home was located in Conway center, near the Baptist Church, and probably was owned by William’s father, Joseph R. Pulsifer. Nettie died in 1898, and when William died in 1903, his children were left orphaned.

This photograph comes from the Howes Brothers collection of photographs.  Based in Ashfield, Massachusetts, they created more than 20,000 images of New England rural life from 1890 to around 1910.