Laton Alton Huffman

Sweat lodge, Sioux Village by Huffman, taken between 1896 and 1905. This photograph is one half of a stereograph. Thanksgiving 1881 E.H.M.C. stereograph by Huffman, taken between 1870 and 1920

Laton Alton Huffman (October 31, 1854 – December 28, 1931) was an American photographer of Frontier and Native American life. Born in Winneshiek County, Iowa, he spent most of his life photographing the area around his Montana home. Having initially worked at Fort Keogh, he started to sell prints of his glass plate negatives. In 1976, he was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum.

Publications with contributions by Huffman The Frontier Years: L.A. Huffman, Photographer of the Plains. New York: Henry Holt, 1955. Before Barbed Wire. L.A. Huffman: Photographer of the American West. By Larry Len Peterson and with photographs by Huffman. Missoula, MT: Mountain Press, 2005. Missoula, MT: Mountain Press, 2013. . Revised third edition. The Collotypes of L.A. Huffman: Montana Frontier Photographer. Helena, MT: Riverbend, 2014. . By Gene and Bev Allen and with photographs by Huffman.

Collections Huffman's work is held in the following public collections: Montana Historical Society, Helena, MT. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL: 22 prints (acquired 1975)