Lot 39v
ADAM CLARK VROMAN (1856-1916) A presentation album titled Outings, H.E. Hoopes 1899-1900, with 75 platinum prints primarily portraying country life around Media, Pennsylvania. The images include dimensional and finely detailed photographs made on hunting and fishing excursions (including participants posing with their game and in the landscape), serene lakes, pastoral views of cows in lush fields, and river views, as well as a few images from the capitol in Washington, D.C., and several compelling portraits. Platinum prints, 26 vignetted in an oval format and 49 rectilinear, the images measuring approximately 5x4 to 8x6 inches (12.7x10.2 to 20.3x15.2 cm.), and the reverse. 4to, elegant gilt-lettered and pictorial leather, lightly edgeworn; with marbled endpapers and interleafing sheets; all edges gilt. 1899-1900
Estimate $2,000 - 3,000
Vroman is known to have made images in Pennsylvania, and two of the photographs in the volume also appear in Photographer of the Southwest: Adam Clark Vroman, 1856-1916 (Bonanza Books). They are Media, Pennsylvania, country road with hay wagon, 1900(p. 122), and Media, Pennsylvania, the old miller, 1900 (p. 126). After Vroman completed his trips to the Southwest, his interests turned toward Japan, another theme touched on in a few images in this volume.
