Adam Clark Vroman

Adam Clark Vroman (April 15, 1856, La Salle, Illinois - July 24, 1916, Altadena, California) was an American portrait photographer, known primarily for his portraits of indigenous peoples of the Southwestern United States.

[1][2] He was the founder and proprietor of Vroman's Bookstore - the oldest and largest independent bookshop in Southern California.

From 1895, he visited the villages of the Hopi Native Americans for ten years, which he painted.

Later he also lectured on Indigenous Americans[2] In his photographs, he showed their facial features, but also realistic images of their dwellings and arranged simple genre scenes of their way of life.

It was then called Vroman's Book and Photographic Supply and was located at 60 E. Colorado St in Pasadena, California.