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In 1978 UCR / California Museum of Photography acquired the Setzer - Alexander / Friends of Photography Collection. Part of that collection was some 400 gelatin silver prints made by William Webb from Adam Clark Vroman original glass plate negatives. The prints were made during the period 1961-1972 and comprise a numbered set, one of few ever produced. Many of the prints appear in the William Webb and Robert A. Weinstein book, DWELLERS AT THE SOURCE. The prints cover A. C. Vroman's work during the period 1895 to 1904.

Vroman began taking photographs in 1892. In 1895 he started work on a complete series of the California missions. That summer he accompanied an expedition to Arizona, and for the next ten years photographed the Southwest. These web pages show some of that work.