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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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SWY1859

Wenatchee Valley Apple Tree in Bloom, 4-Year-Old Jonathan, J. O. Stout Fruit Ranch
SWY1860

Wenatchee Valley Apple Trees in Bloom, Cassel Vale Fruit Ranch, J. O. Stout, Proprietor, 8-Year-Old Gano Tree
SWY1861

Wenatchee Valley Apple Trees in Bloom, 12-Year-Old Ben Davis, J. W. Stewart Fruit Ranch
SWY1862

Wenatchee Valley 14-Year-Old Red Astrachan Apple Grafted to Winesap, J. W. Stewart Ranch
SWY1863

Wenatchee Valley Apple Trees in Bloom, Blackburn Brothers Ranch, 9-Year-Old Black Ben Davis 1910
SWY1864

Wenatchee Valley Apples, Blackburn Bros. Ranch, 9-Year-Old Stayman Winesap
SWY1865

Wenatchee Valley Peach Orchard in Bloom, 4-Year-Old Trees
SWY1866

Wenatchee Valley, Washington 4-Year-Old Peach Tree in Bloom
SWY1867

Wenatchee Valle, Washingtony Gano Apples
SWY1868

Wenatchee Valley, Washington Apple Trees in Bloom--A Row of Winter Bananas
SWY1869

Wenatchee Valley, Washington Apple Trees in Bloom, C. L. McKittrick
SWY1870

Wenatchee Valley, Washington Apple Orchard in Bloom, 4-Year-Old Jonathans, P. E. Noble Ranch
SWY1872

Wenatchee Valley, Washington Apple Orchards in Bloom, 9-Year-Old Rome Beauty, Jack Lilles Fruit Ranch
SWY1873

Wenatchee Valley, Washington Prune Orchard in Bloom
SWY1874

Wenatchee Valley, Washington Apple Trees in Bloom, 18-Year-Old Spitzenbergs, Haseo Fruit Ranch
SWY1875

Wenatchee Valley, Washington Apple Tree in Bloom, 12-Year-Old Spitzenberg
SWY1876

Wenatchee Valley, Washington Apple Tree in Bloom, 4-Year-Old Jonathan, C. J. McKittrick Fruit Ranch
SWY1877

White Salmon, Washington, Road Through Fir Timber, Snowden Road
SWY1878

White Salmon, Washington, Mt Hood & Columbia River, Boudoins Road
SWY1879

Dogwood in Bloom, White Salmon Valley, Washington, May 8, 1910
SWY1880

White Salmon, Cameron Valley, Washington
SWY1881

White Salmon, Washington, Underwood Mountain from Trout Lake Road Showing Orcharding Planting, 1910
SWY1882

White Salmon, Washington, 3-Year-Old Apple Trees on Brooking Place, Trout Lake Road
SWY1883

White Salmon, Washington, 3-Year-Old Apple Trees & Strawberry Field
SWY1884

White Salmon, Washington, Tuerck's Strawberry Field, Cook's Addition
SWY1885

White Salmon, Washington, McCracken Orchard, 8-Year-Old Apple Trees
SWY1886

White Salmon, Washington, McCracken Ranch Showing House, Part of Orchard
SWY1887

White Salmon, Washington, Bourdoin Ranch, 4-Year-Old Baldwin in Bloom
SWY1888

White Salmon, Washington, Parson Ranch Showing Apple Orchard in Bloom & Columbia River
SWY1889

White Salmon, Washington, Pyatt\'s Orchard, 8-Year-Old Trees in Bloom
SWY1890

White Salmon, Washington, Gilbert Orchard, 8-Year-Old Apple Trees in Bloom
SWY1891

White Salmon, Washington, McGinnis-Bragg Orchard, 12-Year-Old Baldwin in Bloom
SWY1892

White Salmon, Washington, McGinnis-Bragg Orchard, 12-Year-Old Baldwin in Bloom
SWY1893

White Salmon, Washington, White Salmon, River
SWY1894

Willamette Valley, Oregon 2 Miles South of Salem Looking East
SWY1895

Willamette Valley, Oregon 2 Miles South of Salem Looking West
SWY1897

Strawberries and Loganberries near Salem, Oregon
SWY1899

Shell Walk near Seaside, Oregon
SWY1900

Oregon Surf
SWY1901

Ferns Along Trail over Tillamook Head, Oregon
SWY1902

Grand Hotel, Gearhart, Oregon
SWY1903

Porch, Grand Hotel, Gearhart, Oregon
SWY1904

Gearhart, Oregon Woods
SWY1905

Gearhart, Oregon Beach
SWY1906

Scene near Gearhart, Oregon
SWY1908

SPand S Railway Depot, Seaside, Oregon
SWY1909

Locksley Hall, Seaside, Oregon
SWY1910

Flavel Hotel, Flavel, Oregon
SWY1911

Flavel Hotel Porch, Flavel, Oregon
SWY1912

Wreck on Point Adams Beach, Oregon