Background
Adam Clark Vroman was born on April 15, 1856, in La Salle, Illinois, United States.
Adam Clark Vroman was born on April 15, 1856, in La Salle, Illinois, United States.
Adam Clark Vroman began taking photographs about 1892. He worked for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad in 1874, and eventually moved to Pasadena, California, where, with J. S. Glasscock, he opened a bookstore which prospered.
In 1895 Adam Clark Vroman witnessed a Hopi Indian snake ceremony, which influenced several photographic trips to the Indian territory of the Southwest during the next ten years.
Adam Clark Vroman wrote and lectured on the Indian way of life, in which he was extremely interested, and also amassed one of the most important collections of Indian arts and crafts. He also photographed California missions and landscapes of Yosemite and other areas of the Southwest. The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County housed the artist's work in the Vroman Gallery from 1960 to 1973.
The Moqui Snake Dance (Before the Kisi)
1895Walpi, Moqui Town (from South)
1895Around Moki Towns, The Tewa Trail
1900Around Zuni, from Northeast of Pueblo "99"
1899The Big Log Cannon in the Petrified Forest
1895Walpi (Moki Town) from North
1895Oste, A Zuni Man
Navajo Family
Nambaya, the best of the Pueblo Potters, Moulding
1901Two Isleta women, native costume