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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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SWY2799

Glacier National Park--Piegan Pass, Morning Eagle Falls--copyright 1912
SWY2800

Glacier National Park--Cut Bank River as Seen from the Chalet
SWY2801

Glacier National Park--Cut Bank River and Chalet
SWY2802

Glacier National Park--Cut Bank Chalets
SWY2803

Glacier National Park--Cut Bank Chalets
SWY2804

Glacier National Park--Cut Bank Chalets
SWY2805

Glacier National Park--Cut Bank Chalets
SWY2806

Glacier National Park--Cut Bank Chalets from Distance
SWY2807

Glacier National Park--Interior Cut Bank Chalet Dining Hall
SWY2808

Glacier National Park, Two Medicine--Road to Two Medicine Chalets
SWY2809

Glacier National Park--Two Medicine River
SWY2810

Glacier National Park--Two Medicine Falls
SWY2811

Glacier National Park--Two Medicine Falls
SWY2812

Glacier National Park--Two Medicine Falls
SWY2813

Glacier National Park--Rising Wolf Mountain from Appistoki Mountain
SWY2814

Glacier National Park--View from Appistoki Mountain Showing Two Medicine Lake
SWY2815

Glacier National Park, Two Medicine--View from Summit of Appistoki Mountain
SWY2816

Glacier National Park, Two Medicine--Appistoki Falls
SWY2817

Glacier National Park, Two Medicine--Appistoki Falls
SWY2818

Glacier National Park, Two Medicine--Summit of Appistoki Mountain
SWY2819

Glacier National Park, Two Medicine--Old Tree Growing on Appistoki Mountain
SWY2820

Glacier National Park--Looking Southwest from Summit of Rising Wolf Mountain Showing Upper Two Medicine Lake
SWY2821

Glacier National Park--Looking Down on the Two Medicine Chalets from Summit of Rising Wolf Mountain
SWY2822

Glacier National Park--Looking Down on the Two Medicine Lake form near Summit of Rising Wolf Mountain
SWY2823

Glacier National Park--Looking Down on Two Medicine Lake from Summit of Rising Wolf Mountain
SWY2824

Glacier National Park--Two Medicine Lake
SWY2825

Glacier National Park--Chalets, Two Medicine Lake
SWY2826

Glacier National Park--Two Medicine Lake and Chalet
SWY2827

Glacier National Park--Two Medicine Lake
SWY2828

Glacier National Park--Two Medicine Chalet, Rising Wolf Mountain
SWY2829

Glacier National Park--Geographic Party, Two Medicine Camp
SWY2830

Glacier National Park--Pack Train, Two Medicine Camp
SWY2831

Glacier National Park--Two Medicine Chalets
SWY2832

Glacier National Park--Two Medicine Chalets
SWY2833

Glacier National Park--Two Medicine Chalets
SWY2834

Glacier National Park--Two Medicine Lake at Dusk Showing Mt Rockwell
SWY2835

Glacier National Park, Lake St Mary--The Narrows Showing Chalet
SWY2836

Glacier National Park, Lake St Mary--The Narrows Showing Chalet and Red Eagle Mountain
SWY2837

Glacier National Park, Lake St Mary--The Narrows Chalet, Going-to-the-Sun Mountain
SWY2838

Glacier National Park, Lake St Mary--The Narrows Chalet, Head of Lake
SWY2839

Glacier National Park, Lake St Mary--The Narrows, Red Eagle Mountain
SWY2840

Glacier National Park, Lake St Mary--The Narrows Chalet, Going-to-the-Sun Mountain
SWY2841

Glacier National Park, Lake St Mary--The Narrows, Chalets in Distance
SWY2842

Glacier National Park, Lake St Mary--The Narrows Chalet and Going-to-the-Sun Mountain
SWY2843

Glacier National Park, Lake St Mary--The Narrows, Chalets and Going-to-the-Sun Mountain
SWY2844

Glacier National Park--Lower Lake St Mary
SWY2845

Glacier National Park--Lake St Mary Chalet
SWY2846

Glacier National Park--Lake St Mary Chalet and Singleshot Mountain
SWY2847

Glacier National Park--Lake St Mary Chalet
SWY2848

Glacier National Park--Lake St Mary Chalet