Vintage Photography played an imperative role in the development of the West. They provided a concrete and realistic window to the rest of the world. For example, the United States Congress approved funding for the first National Park, Yellowstone, after seeing visual representation in photos taken by William Henry Jackson. Photography itself represented the burgeoning innovativeness made necessary by the pioneering spirit of the late 19th Century. Photographs by L.A. Huffman, Christian Barthelmas, Evelyn Cameron, Edward Curtis, F.J. Haynes, William Henry Jackson, Fred Miller, Stanley Morrow and Richard Throssell, to name a few, captured on film the images what would later define the American West - extensive herds of buffalo & wild horses, cowboys & round ups, traditions of the Native Americans, and settlements that would become great cities.

Thomas Minckler Fine Art has been responsible for acquiring the most extensive collection of frontier photographer L.A. Huffman. It was appropriately placed in the hands of one of the most prestigious Western institutions, the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming. This collection is unprecedented in that it not only includes the photographs but the correspondence of the photographer and his studio effects.

Our inventory is a reflection of an era gone by; original stereocards, tintypes, Carte de visites, albumin prints and glass plates.