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

Colored photographs of the frontier

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 9111

Scope and content Six colored photographs depicting life on the frontier. The photos include: taking cow robes (buffalo skins) at Timber Creek, 1878; Bull train, Main Street, Milestown, Montana Territory, 1880; Near Custer's Hill, June 25, 1877, one year after the battle, shows eight unmarked graves, from the Battle of the Little Bighorn, labeled as the last men to fall; Wild goats in the Badlands; A trail herd, Powder River, 1886; Buffalo hunters camp, a relic of the seventies. Each piece has the title and...

Dates: 1877-1886.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Colored photographs of the frontier

L. A. Huffman scrapbook

Collection — Huntington box 35

Identifier: 9113

Scope and content

Scrapbook containing pictures of L. A. Huffman photos, newspaper clippings about Huffman. Articles contain biographical information about Huffman as well as information about frontier life.

Dates: 1905-1930.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / L. A. Huffman scrapbook

The Huffman pictures

Collection — Huntington box 20

Identifier: 9089

Scope and content Album of photographs dated between 1870 and 1910. Some illustrations from magazines. Includes invoice for purchase by The Heye Foundation. Some of the photos are colored. The photos show various aspects of frontier and Indian life in Montana and Missouri. There is a typed note inside the cover from Huffman written at Miles Creek, Montana and a signed picture of Huffman. Included are photos of Sioux and Cheyenne Indians, cowboys, and ranchers, the battle field of Little Bighorn with the grave...

Dates: 1870-1910.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / The Huffman pictures

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Colored photographs of the frontier

L. A. Huffman scrapbook

The Huffman pictures

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