This clever image shows part of the inside of the cup through the dog's snout. It was probably made by double printing, where separate negatives were made with and without the dog, partially exposing the paper to the image without the dog, then finishing by exposing the image with the dog.
This stamp appears on the reverse side of several aerial photographs made of campus during World War II. It cannot be determined whether or not Garman was the photographer for the aerial views with these stamps in the collection.
John Garman was born in Urbana, Illinois, in 1896. When he was two, his family moved to Portland. After graduating from Benson Polytechnic High School in 1916, Garman enrolled at Oregon Agricultural College (OAC). After his first year, he entered the Army and served as an instructor. After WWI, he returned to OAC, and completed his B.S. in Physics in 1922. In 1923, he became an instructor in Engineering. In 1924, Garman began teaching photography for the Physics Department, which he continued doing until his retirement in 1966. In 1969, he helped the Art Department set up classes when that department assumed the teaching of photography. In the 1920's, Garman, with Ed Yunker, established Photographic Services at OAC; Photographic Services is now part of OSU's Communication Media Center. In 1925, Garman married Florence Goff; they had three children. Garman passed away in November of 1989.