Huffman, L. A. (Laton Alton), 1854-1931

L. A. Huffman spent most of his life photographing the area around his Montana home. He worked at Fort Keogh before starting his own studio selling prints of his glass plate negatives. His photos capture frontier and Indian life.

From the description of Colored photographs of the frontier, 1877-1886. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 62320522

From the description of The Huffman pictures, 1870-1910. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64064233

From the description of L. A. Huffman scrapbook, 1905-1930. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 62320524

The collection contains four black/white copy prints of a Montana roundup, taken by Western photographer Laton Alton Huffman, of Miles City, Montana, ca. 1905, 1913. There are two copies of one print that appears as image no. 114 in Mark Herbert Brown and W. R. Felton's "Before Barbed Wire: L. A. Huffman, Photographer on Horseback" (New York: Henry Holt and Comapny, 1956).

Brown and Felton noted that Ruth Huffman Scott of Miles City, Montana, owned the Huffman negatives when their book was published (1956) and that prints from the negatives still were available to collectors at that time. It seems probable that the four prints in this collection are such later copy prints.

From the description of Laton Alton Huffman Photographs, [ca. 1905, 1913] (University of California, Santa Barbara). WorldCat record id: 63049668