[South Dakota Photographica]: [Huffman Family]:

$650 · Offered by William Reese Company · No longer available

[ANNOTATED VERNACULAR PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM FEATURING A FARMING FAMILY IN SOUTH DAKOTA, WITH PICTURES OF IDENTIFIED NATIVE AMERICANS]. An interesting annotated vernacular photograph album featuring a South Dakota family in the first quarter of the 20th century. Members of the family are variously identified as Anna, Beulah, and Dwight Huffman, aided by a few pages of typed family notes that accompany the album. The album was kept by an unidentified member of the Huffman family, who refers to herself in the first person in a few photographs, including a group shot of school girls, captioned "Domestic Science Class when I was a 'Frosh.'" Comparisons of photographs indicate the author of the captions is probably Anna Huffman.Most of the photographs feature people from multiple generations of the Huffman family in South Dakota, including Grandma Benjamin. These men, women, and children pose in front of houses and on farms on the South Dakota prairie and at various spots in the capital city of Pierre. The family members are captured in a variety of activities common to rural life: feeding livestock, killing and cleaning chickens, gardening, stacking hay, camping, cutting their own hair, extracting a cow from a muddy lake, tilling farmland with early motorized tractors, and fishing in Lake Oahe.Two photographs feature Robert Benjamin Huffman - one of him while at Illinois State Normal University (now Illinois State) and one showing him in his World War I uniform. According to the family

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