[4] Howe worked as an itinerant photographer, temporarily setting up a gallery in North Adams, Massachusetts.

He moved back to Brattleboro the next year, because North Adams had "an element of the population that did not appeal" due to work occurring nearby at the Hoosac Tunnel.

A daguerreotype from the Howe studio would be 1.5 x 2 inches, set in a small gilt frame behind glass, and would sell for a dollar.

[4] Howe shifted photographic formats as they became available, creating ambrotypes and tintypes in addition to prints on paper.

His 1869 photograph Blake Block, Brattleboro, Vermont, after the Fire is held by the Smithsonian American Art Museum.