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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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SWY2641

Glacier National Park--Glacier Hotel Club Room (Mutt and Jeff)
SWY2642

Glacier National Park--Glacier Hotel
SWY2643

Glacier National Park--Cabins, Hotel Glacier
SWY2644

Glacier National Park--Cabins, Hotel Glacier
SWY2645

Glacier National Park--Dining Hall, Glacier Hotel
SWY2646

Glacier National Park--Dining Hall, Glacier Hotel
SWY2647

Glacier National Park, Belton--Apgar Cabins, Lake McDonald
SWY2648

Glacier National Park--Boat Landing, Lake McDonald
SWY2649

Glacier National Park, Belton--Tally Ho on Belton Road
SWY2652

Glacier National Park--Belton Chalets
SWY2653

Glacier National Park--Belton Chalets
SWY2654

Glacier National Park--Belton Chalets
SWY2655

Glacier National Park--Belton Chalets
SWY2656

Glacier National Park--Belton Chalets, with Tally Ho and Stage
SWY2657

Chelan, Washington--Looking Across Lake Chelan from War Creek Pass Trail
SWY2658

Chelan, Washington--Rainbow Falls and Eaton-Stone Party
SWY2659

Chelan, Washington--Shoreline, Lake Chelan
SWY2660

Chelan, Washington--Eaton-Stone Party on War Creek Pass Trail Showing Lake Chelan in Distance
SWY2661

Chelan, Washington--Wenatchee Valley
SWY2662

Glacier National Park--Glacier Park Wild Sheep
SWY2663

Glacier National Park--Lake Ellen Wilson
SWY2664

Glacier National Park--Head of Lake St Mary from Going-to-the-Sun Chalets
SWY2665

Glacier National Park--Lake McDermott from McDermott Peak
SWY2666

Glacier National Park--Cut Bank Region Panorama
SWY2667

Glacier National Park--Granite Park Chalets
SWY2668

Glacier National Park--Granite Park Chalet
SWY2669

Glacier National Park--Granite Park Chalet
SWY2670

Glacier National Park, Granite Park--The Garden Wall as Seen from Logan Pass Trail
SWY2671

Glacier National Park, Granite Park--The Garden Wall as Seen from Logan Pass Trail--Sunset
SWY2672

Glacier National Park, Granite Park--The Garden Wall, Glacier National Park 1920
SWY2673

Glacier National Park, Granite Park--The Garden Wall as Seen from the Granite Park
SWY2674

Glacier National Park, Granite Park--The Garden Wall Showing Logan Pass in Distance, Glacier National Park 1920
SWY2675

Glacier National Park, Granite Park--Heavens Peak from Granite Park 1920
SWY2676

Glacier National Park, Granite Park--Heavens Peak from Granite Park 1920
SWY2677

Granite Park and the Garden Wall, Glacier National Park 1920
SWY2678

Granite Park Chalets and Trapper Peak, Glacier National Park 1920
SWY2679

Granite Park--Grinnell Glacier & the Summif of Gould Mountain Across from the Garden Wall, Glacier National Park 1920
SWY2680

Granite Park Employees, Glacier National Park 1920
SWY2681

Glen Lake Across from Foot of Lake, Glacier National Park 1920
SWY2682

Glen Lake, Glacier National Park 1920
SWY2683

Crater Lake--The Watchman and Glacier Peak (Hillman Peak)
SWY2684

Glen Lake--Head of Glen Lake, Glacier National Park 1920
SWY2685

Glen Lake--Sunset, Cathedral Peak from Glen Lake, Glacier National Park 1920
SWY2686

Glen Lake--Washboard Falls, Glacier National Park 1920
SWY2687

Glen Lake--Washboard Falls & Cathedral Peak, Glacier National Park 1920
SWY2688

Glen Lake--Washboard Falls & Cathedral Peak, Glacier National Park 1920
SWY2689

Glen Lake--Kipps Peak as Seen from near Glen Lake, Glacier National Park 1920
SWY2690

Glen Lake--Our Camp, Glen Lake, Glacier National Park 1920
SWY2691

Our Camp at Glen Lake, Glacier National Park 1920
SWY2692

Glen Lake--Headwaters of Belly River, Glacier National Park 1920