Vancouver History: Photographer Don Coltman
byHaving previously featured photographer Leonard Frank I wanted to profile the photography of another Vancouverite who helped document our city during a specific era. Scanning the Vancouver Archives, I found a collection from someone I’ve featured many times before in some of my history posts or “Then and Now” photo collections: Don Coltman.
From the Vancouver Archives: “Don Coltman worked as a commercial photographer from 1940 to 1954. In 1944 he purchased the Steffens-Colmer Studio. He operated his company under the names of Steffens-Colmer Studios Ltd. and Don Coltman Photography Co. Don Coltman was recognized internationally for his documentation of leading western industries – lumbering, agriculture, fishing, mining, pulp and paper plants, oil well drilling, foundries, canneries, retail businesses, sawmills, shipping, shipbuilding and tourism. During the war years, 1940-1945, he documented civil defense activities throughout the province as well as fund-raising activities of the National War Finance campaign.”
You can find more Don Coltman photos by using the Vancouver Archives’ online directory, searching his name or Steffens-Colmer.
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I just found your blog on Don Coltman
He was my father and he often used me in his photo asignments.
One that I particularily cherish ran in The Province as war bonds adf or Dairyland with me pining for
my father “He gave so please give”
Bob Coltman