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The SOHS Sawyer Collection

The images presented here are part of a donation we are calling the Sawyer Collection. The images have come from multiple photography studios, some of them unidentified. Most were taken by the Kiser Studio of Portland, Oregon in the 'Teens and early 'Twenties, especially of rugged scenes in Crater Lake and Glacier National Parks and along the Columbia River. A small collection was taken 1905-07 by photographer H. G. Peabody of Massachusetts and Maine urban and coastal scenes. An anonymous collection portrays architectural and rural views taken in Central Mexico in the same era.

The collection was saved and cared for by William Gruber, who had a long working relationship with the Portland photography studio Sawyer Service Inc. Gruber was the inventor of the popular View-Master, which he produced in collaboration with Sawyer’s. According to the donor, in 1939 Sawyer’s was poised to dispose of these glass plate negatives in order to focus on the View-Master, when Gruber offered to take the plates. Over the past eight decades, the Gruber family has meticulously maintained the collection of approximately 3,000 plates, weighing roughly half a ton. Southern Oregon Historical Society received the plates as a donation in 2019, and has made them publicly available with additional grant funding from Oregon Parks and Recreation and the Oregon Cultural Trust.

 SAWYER COLLECTION INDEX        WILLIAM GRUBER       WHEN THE COLLECTION ARRIVED AT SOHS     

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SWY1704

Glacier National Park--Swiftcurrent Region, Lake McDermitt
SWY1705

Glacier National Park--Swiftcurrent Region, Lake McDermitt Looking Northwest
SWY1706

Glacier National Park, Gunsight Pass Trail--Side Wall of Mt Jackson Showing Waterfall Going into Little St Mary Lake
SWY1707

Glacier National Park, Gunsight Pass Trail--Mt Jackson Showing Little St Mary Lake Falls etc.
SWY1708

Glacier National Park, Gunsight Pass Trail--Switchbacks
SWY1709

Glacier National Park, Gunsight Pass Trail--Little St Mary Lake
SWY1710

Glacier National Park--Gunsight Peak
SWY1711

Glacier National Park, Gunsight Pass Trail--Lake Ellen Wilson
SWY1712

Glacier National Park, Gunsight Pass Trail--Showing Beaver Dam
SWY1713

Glacier National Park--Gunsight Pass
SWY1714

Glacier National Park--Gunsight Pass Showing Party
SWY1715

Glacier National Park--Gunsight Pass Showing Party
SWY1716

Glacier National Park--Gunsight Pass Showing Eaton Party Crossing Snowbank
SWY1717

Glacier National Park--Gunsight Pass Showing Party on Snowbank
SWY1718

Glacier National Park, Gunsight Pass Trail--Mt Jackson from Gunsight Trail
SWY1719

Glacier National Park, Gunsight Pass Trail--Blackfoot Glacier from Gunsight Trail
SWY1720

Glacier National Park, Gunsight Pass Trail--Citadel Mountain from Gunsight Trail
SWY1721

Glacier Park Hotel
SWY1722

Glacier Park Hotel Entrance
SWY1723

Glacier Park Hotel
SWY1724

Glacier Park Hotel
SWY1725

Glacier Park Hotel
SWY1726

Glacier Park Hotel Interior, Night
SWY1727

Glacier National Park, Granite Park Camp--Hiking Party on Trail near Granite Park
SWY1728

Glacier National Park, Granite Park Camp--Looking South from Chalet
SWY1729

Glacier National Park--Granite Park, Sunset
SWY1730

Glacier National Park--Granite Park, Sunset
SWY1731

Glacier National Park, Granite Park Camp--Trapper Peak as Seen from near Camp
SWY1732

Granite Park Camp--Party on Trail near Camp Showing Trapper Peak
SWY1733

Granite Park Camp Showing Heavens Peak
SWY1734

Granite Park Camp--Heavens Peak
SWY1735

Granite Park Camp--The Graden Wall, Looking South
SWY1736

Granite Park Camp--Eaton-Stone Party in Front of Chalet
SWY1737

Granite Park Camp--Eaton on Porch of Chalet
SWY1738

Granite Park Camp--Party on Trail on Flattop Mountain Showing Heavens Peak in Distance
SWY1739

Granite Park Camp--Heavens Peak as Seen from Flattop
SWY1740

Methow Valley--Methow River near Methow
SWY1741

Methow Valley--Looking Back Across the Valley from Road Leading to Okanogan
SWY1742

Methow Valley--Pine Timber--Road from Methow Valley to Okanogan
SWY1743

Methow Valley--Lower End
SWY1744

Methow Valley--Sunset, Lower End
SWY1745

Methow Valley--Lower End Showing Furey Culver Ranch
SWY1746

Methow Valley--6-Year-Old Bellflower Apple Tree, Furey Culver Ranch
SWY1747

Methow Valley--5-Year-Old Yellow Newtown, Furey Culver Ranch
SWY1748

Methow Valley--6-Year-Old Winesaps, Furey Culver Ranch
SWY1749

Methow Valley--6-Year-Old Winesap, Furey Culver Ranch
SWY1750

Methow Valley--Limb of Winesap Apples, Furey Culver Ranch
SWY1751

Methow Valley--Greening Tree, Blythe Ranch
SWY1752

Methow Valley--Carlton Flats
SWY1753

Methow Valley--Upper End Nursery & Twisp