Lot 52: Print of Bringing a Calf to the Branding Fire by L.A. Huffman

This 15 by 20 inch print is mostly sepia tone but has some hand tinting on the main cowboy's face and the cattle. It is marked with "Bringing a calf to the branding fire," and the "La Huffman Miles City Montana." copyright line along the bottom. The back is unmarked. It is not framed but is mounted to a poster board with corner pieces. Laton Alton Huffman (1854-1931) likely took this photograph in the mid-1880s while documenting round-ups and is known to have made contact prints of those photographs around 1905-1906.

Good with a small tear in the upper right corner and mild age and storage related wear. Shows signs of a prior mounting on the corners and back. An excellent western image. Provenance: The John Fox Collection.