This photograph was labeled taken "near Howell High School" and may have been an aerial view of the sidewalks leading in to the high school in Howell Michigan. The date is unknown.
This is a locomotive steam train on tracks near Howell Michigan.
The location bears a very similar appearance to the Isbell Street "Jewett Bridge" cut, down to similar telegraph pole placement on the right side of the tracks. Tracks would therefore be the Detroit, Lansing & Northern/Pere Marquette/Chesapeake and Ohio, and currently CSX trackage running east/west through the city.