Oregon State UniversitySpecial Collections & Archives Research Center
The Photographs of John Garman
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This image of Houts' Ferry was taken in the 1920's. If you look closely at the print and compare it to other black and white prints, you can see the painting-like softness that makes the colortone print (P95:172b) so visually interesting.

(P095:172a)
(P095:172a)

This image is called a colortone print. Colortone prints are made by applying dying chemicals during or after processing to change the color base from silver.

(P095:172b)
(P095:172b)

One of Garman's rare humorous photographs, this print shows an icicle that formed around a thermometer. It was made circa 1942.

(P095:542)
(P095:542)

Oregon's Famous "Silver Thaw." Taken while very cloudy, raining and a coat of ice forming on the car, 1943.

(P095:196)
(P095:196)