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May 11, 2015

Early Portrait Photographs of Native Americans From the 1890s

Adam Clark Vroman began to photograph around 1892, the same year that he married and moved to Pasadena, California. As an amateur photographer and bookseller, Vroman traveled to the Southwest, especially New Mexico, to photograph in the American Indian pueblos. He is best known for his portrait work there.

Unlike many photographers at the time, he was considered to be extremely respectful of his subjects. Among his photographic accomplishments, Vroman illustrated the 1913 edition of Helen Hunt Jackson's novel Ramona. The bookstore he founded, Vroman's Bookstore, still operates in Pasadena under his surname, though it is no longer in the Vroman family.

























13 comments:

  1. Amazing work!! Thanks!!

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  2. disqus_Hk6bAV5M1RMay 12, 2015 at 4:04 AM

    Absolutely fantastic......Truly brings these old photos alive.

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  3. Let us enter the uncanny valley....

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  4. I think the 'shell caps' are fuzes

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  5. God bless all those heroes.

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  6. Dorothy J. LadoceourMay 30, 2015 at 4:24 AM

    I get so interested in this stuff. I think its because I was young and so safe during 1941 to 1945.

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  7. Wonderful. God bless our ancestors. Truly the Greatest Generation! Puts you there with them!

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  8. I was beginning my teens in those years and remember where I was on Pearl Harbor Day and VE-Day.
    The pictures are remakable.

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  9. Positively superb! Colorization portrays a true sense of the war in comparison to those musty old B&W photos that make it seem far more distant than 70 years. These provide enhanced appreciation of those who served and the weapons they used.

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