This large mounted exhibition print is signed Griffiths and features elements to suggest it was taken in the New England or Mid-Atlantic states. At center, anchoring the composition, is a magnificent Eastern White Pine tree, (Pinus strobus) soaring skyward and catching the early or late afternoon light just beyond the portico of the columned front steps to a large home. Beyond are farm fields with mountains looming on the horizon.
As in this photograph, homesteads in New England and elsewhere across the US retained some trees- as seen here- often serving to shade homes and other structures while the surrounding topography was clearcut for farmlands. The following excerpt on the role of Eastern White Pine trees comes from a 2016 web post: An Exceptional New England White Pine:
By the middle of the 1800s, most of New England was cleared of its original forest cover. The countryside was one largely of fields and settlements; the forest cover had been reduced to no more than 20 to 30% of the landscape. Remaining woodlands were often on hillsides and used as woodlots. However, since the early 1900s, the forests have grown back, and a beneficiary of the 1800s clearings has been Pinus strobus, eastern white pine – the former glory of New England. White pines seed generously in abandoned fields.: source: Blogger: New England Forests