Collection Contents
Original and copy prints
Some images from this collection are digitized in the Huntington Digital
Library.
Physical Description: The original prints in this collection vary in size, mount,
and types of paper. A few are platinum prints, and some others are on
paper that appears to have been part of an album. Some prints are
printed two to a page, possibly for an album. Most of the prints have
ink captions in Vroman's hand, often noting the negative number.
Box 1, (2-11)
Scenes from trips to New Mexico (San Felipe and Zia pueblos)
and vicinity, 1897-1901.
Box 1, (12-15)
Adobe buildings in Monterey, California; canyon view of
Santa Margarita Pass.
Box 1, (16-28)
Scenes in the San Gabriel Mountains: Echo Mountain; Mt. Lowe
Railway and Alpine Tavern; Rubio Canyon.
Box 1, (29-32)
Manitou, Colorado and environs.
Box 1, (33-36)
Town of Oregon, Illinois and environs.
Box 1, (41-46)
Arizona: Grand Canyon; Canyon de Chelly; cliff dwellings.
Box 1, (47-49)
Vroman and others in camp scenes with Navajo (?) Indians,
ca. 1904.
Box 1, (50)
Pottery maker at Acoma, 1904.
Box 1, (51)
Peter Goddard Gates, Walter Hough and Navajo workmen.
Museum-Gates Expedition of 1901, which included Vroman as
photographer.
Box 1, (52)
Camp scene with several men (Dr. Elliot Coues at center),
Embruda, New Mexico.
Most likely the Bureau of Ethnology expedition of 1899.
Box 1, (53-54)
Birds-eye-view of Santa Fe, New Mexico, ca. 1901.
The two images form a panorama view.
Box 1, (55-56)
Indians haying at Sandia, New Mexico.
Box 1, (57)
Plaza and estufa at Cochiti Pueblo, New Mexico, 1899.
Box 1, (58)
View of Thunder Mountain from Zuni, ca. 1901.
Box 1, (59)
Enchanted Mesa, Arizona, 1897.
Box 1, (60a-b; 61a-b; 62a-b; 63; 64)
Portraits of Pueblo Indians identified as Hopi, Isleta,
Acoma, Zuni.
Includes portrait of Isleta man "Lucero," 1902.
Box 1, (65-75)
Views of Walpi, Oraibi and other pueblo villages; Snake
Dance at Walpi, 1897.
Box 1, (76-77)
Yosemite; Indians of Yosemite in front of wooden house.
[Miwok/Paiute/Mono(?)]
Box 1, (78)
Rancho Guajome Adobe (San Diego County, California).
Box 1, (79)
A.C. Vroman and other photographers in his "Club of Four,"
seen with their cameras in the Arroyo Seco, Pasadena, ca. 1900.
Pictured: H.C. Chatfield, H.E. Hoopes, G.J. Kuhrts and Vroman.
Box 1, (80-84)
Interior views of A.C. Vroman's bookstore and residence,
Pasadena.
Vroman is posed seated in some views.
- (80, 81, 82b, 83) Original print from glass negative in
collection. 82b is a variant of 82.
- (80a, 81a, 82) Copy print, only, from glass negative in
collection.
- (84) Original print; no corresponding glass negative in
collection.
Box 1, (85-88)
Library of Congress interior, 1901; town of Oregon, Illinois; the
Roanoke (ship).
Box 1, (88.1)
Unidentified scene of women wearing ribbons at train station and riding on
train. Sign on train reads, in part: "...tual Benefit Association," approximately 1900.
Physical Description: Cabinet card with two prints mounted on either side. "A.C.
Vroman" stamped on card mount.
Box 1, (89a-b; 90a-b; 91a-b; 92a-b)
Japan views.
Includes men with rickshaws carrying unidentified white men;
statues; architecture; a woman with children. Note: Vroman toured
Japan in 1903 and 1909 (Webb, p. 4).
Box 2, (93-99)
Trip to Mount Wilson, ca.
1895.
Includes Vroman in a group picnic scene.
Box 2, (100-101)
Rancho Guajome Adobe (San Diego County, California).
Box 2, (121)
Display of cameras inside Vroman's bookstore.
Interior view of Vroman's bookstore, 60 E. Colorado St., Pasadena.
Copy print from glass negative in collection.
Box 2, (122)
Exterior of Vroman's storefront and display windows.
Exterior view of Vroman's bookstore, 60 E. Colorado St., Pasadena.
Copy print from glass negative in collection.
Box 2, (123)
Mission San Buenaventura.
Copy print from glass negative in collection.
Box 2, (124)
Mission Santa Ynez [Santa Inés Mission].
Copy print from glass negative in collection.
Box 2, (125)
Four Mexican men at Mission San Fernando.
Copy print from glass negative in collection; accompanied by the
original negative envelope with handwritten label by Vroman.
Box 2, (126)
Interior, unidentified church.
Copy print from glass negative in collection.
Box 2, (127)
Mission Santa Barbara.
Copy print from glass negative in collection.
Box 2, (128)
Unidentified town.
Copy print from glass negative in collection.
Box 2, (129)
Group portrait of women and girls, unidentified location.
Copy print from glass negative in collection.
Box 2, (130-131)
Two unidentified white women in a portrait and on horseback
at Walpi, Arizona.
Copy print from glass negative in collection.
Box 2, (132)
"Doctor at Indian Pueblo" written on mount in Vroman's hand.
Portrait of unidentified white man.
Copy print from glass negative in collection.
Box 2, (133)
Pueblo Indians performing ceremony.
Copy print from glass negative in collection.
Box 2, (134)
(No print) Partial view of an Indian man in regalia.
Glass negative in collection (part broken off and missing).
Box 2, (135-139)
Portraits of Pueblo Indians.
Copy print from glass negative in collection.
Box 2, (140)
Unidentified pueblo.
Copy print from glass negative in collection.
Box 2, (141)
View of Indian curios belonging to Thomas Keam, Keams
Canyon, Arizona, 1900.
Copy print from glass negative in collection.
Box 2, (142)
Second Congregational Church, Rockford, Illinois, August
1892.
Copy print from glass negative in collection; accompanied by the
original negative envelope with handwritten label by Vroman.
Box 2, (143-149)
Views of a stream and houses along a river, possibly in New
York.
Copy prints from glass negatives in collection.
Box 2, (150-151)
Grant's Tomb, New York.
Copy prints from glass negatives in collection.
Photo-journal of trip to Arizona
Box 2, (102-120)
Trip to Hopi pueblo of Walpi, Arizona, and the Petrified Forest,
1895, with journal on backs of
photographs.
A set of 19 mounted photographs of Vroman's trip to Arizona in 1895, on
which he wrote, on the verso, a personal journal of this trip. Vroman’s
traveling companions were Horatio N. Rust, Mrs. Thaddeus (Leontine)
Lowe, and Charles J. Crandall, who are shown, along with Vroman, at
pueblos, and traveling with supplies and wagons. There are several
portraits of Native Americans, some identified in Vroman’s captions, as
well as scenes of Hopi Indians performing the Snake Dance at Walpi,
Arizona, and also views of the Petrified Forest.
Glass negatives
Physical Description: The glass negatives vary in size: 5 x 7 inches, 6 ½ x 8 ½
inches, and 8 x 10 inches.
Box 3
Glass negatives (80-80a; 81-81a; 82-82a; 83; 121;
123-134)
Access Information
Advance arrangements for viewing the glass negatives must be made with
the Curator of Photographs.
Box 4
Glass negatives (135-151)
Access Information
Advance arrangements for viewing the glass negatives must be made with
the Curator of Photographs.
Box 5
Glass negative (122)
Access Information
Advance arrangements for viewing the glass negatives must be made with
the Curator of Photographs.
Scope and Content Note
Glass negative is broken and secured in mat.
