Vernon Duroe Collection

Vernon Duroe was a photographer in the 1920s through the 1950s that primarily photographed landscapes and took portraits of people around Central New York. During his career he worked with both glass plates and sheet film as techniques evolved. His most common technique was the bromoil process, a process that chemically treats a silver gelatin print with a dichromate salt solution to harden the gelatin according to the amount of silver present. Duroe taught photography as a professor in Brooklyn until his retirement in 1942. Upon returning to Norwich he assisted with founding the Norwich Camera Club. Much of his work was exhibited around Chenango County in this period.