Virna Haffer (1899–April 5, 1974[1]) was an American photographer, printmaker, painter, musician, and published author.

[2] Born in 1899 in Aurora, Illinois, Haffer and her family moved to the utopian community of Home in South Puget Sound in Washington state in 1907.

[3] She opened her own portrait photography studio in Tacoma, Washington and began publishing her photographs in 1924.

One of her works as a commercial photographic portraitist was a childhood picture of future glass artist Dale Chihuly.

[6] Haffer's work was also the subject of several solo exhibitions at locations including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1960; California Museum of Science and Industry, Los Angeles, 1964; New York Camera Club, 1967 and the Museum of Contemporary Crafts, NYC, 1968.