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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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SWY1754

Methow Valley--Showing Methow River & Twisp
SWY1755

Methow Valley--Upper End Below Twisp
SWY1756

Methow Valley--Upper End Below Twisp
SWY1757

Methow Valley--Methow River
SWY1758

Methow Valley
SWY1759

Methow Valley
SWY1760

Methow Valley--Showing Irrigation Project
SWY1761

Methow Valley
SWY1762

Methow Valley--Lower End Showing Furey Culver Ranch
SWY1763

Methow Valley--Showing Irrigation Project & Land Being Developed
SWY1764

Methow Valley--Sagebrush Piled, Ready for Burning
SWY1765

Wenatchee Valley 1910 Looking Down Rows, Leedy Bros. Orchard
SWY1766

Wenatchee Valley 1910 Looking Down Rows, Leedy Bros. Orchard
SWY1767

Wenatchee Valley 1910 Looking Down Rows, Leedy Bros. Orchard
SWY1768

Wenatchee Valley 1910 Limbs of Winesap Tree, Leedy Bros.
SWY1769

Wenatchee Trip 1910--Limbs of Spitzenberg, Leedy Bros.
SWY1770

Wenatchee Valley 1910--6-Year-Old Stayman Winesap Apples, Leedy Bros.
SWY1771

Wenatchee Valley 1910--6-Year-Old Stayman Winesap Apples, Leedy Bros.
SWY1772

Wenatchee Valley 1910--6-Year-Old Black Ben, Leedy Bros.
SWY1773

Wenatchee Trip 1910--6-Year-Old Yellow Newtown Apples, Leedy Bros.
SWY1774

Wenatchee Valley 1910--6-Year-Old Spitzenberg Tree, Leedy Bros.
SWY1775

Wenatchee Valley 1910--6-Year-Old Delicious, Leedy Bros.
SWY1776

Wenatchee Valley 1910--Limb of Winter Banana, B. P. Eno
SWY1777

Wenatchee Valley 1910--Grimes Golden, B. P. Eno
SWY1778

Wenatchee Valley 1910--Wolf River Apples, B. P. Eno
SWY1779

Wenatchee Valley 1910--Wolf River Apples, B. P. Eno
SWY1780

Wenatchee Valley 1910--Apple Packing Shed, Turner
SWY1781

Wenatchee Valley 1910--Looking Down Row of 6-Year-Old Black Twigs
SWY1782

Wenatchee Valley 1910--Black Twigs & Ben Davis, Runyon Fruit Ranch
SWY1783

Wenatchee Valley 1910--7-Year-Old Black Ben Davis, R. B. Whitmarsh
SWY1784

Wenatchee Valley 1910--Blackburn Bros.
SWY1785

Wenatchee Valley 1910--14-Year-Old Ben Davis, Glencove Fruit Ranch
SWY1786

Wenatchee Valley 1910--14-Year-Old Ben Davis, Glencove Fruit Ranch
SWY1787

Wenatchee Valley 1910--7-Year-Old Black Twig & Jonathans, C. L. McKittrick
SWY1788

Wenatchee Valley 1910--7-Year-Old Jonathans, C. L. McKittrick
SWY1789

Wenatchee Valley 1910--4-Year-Old Jonathans, J. McKittrick
SWY1790

Wenatchee Valley 1910--4-Year-Old Jonathans, J. McKittrick
SWY1791

Wenatchee Valley 1910--6-Year-Old Winter Banana, B. P. Eno
SWY1792

Wenatchee Valley 1910--Overlooking Sunnyslope
SWY1793

Wenatchee Valley 1910--Valley near Cashmere
SWY1794

Wenatchee Valley 1910--Valley near Cashmere
SWY1795

Wenatchee Trip 1910--Valley near Cashmere
SWY1796

Wenatchee Trip 1910--Valley near Cashmere
SWY1797

Wenatchee Trip 1910--Valley near Cashmere
SWY1798

Wenatchee Trip 1910--Valley near Cashmere
SWY1799

Wenatchee Trip 1910--Valley near Cashmere
SWY1800

Wenatchee Valley 1910--Grimes Golden
SWY1801

Wenatchee Valley 1910--4-Year-Old Spitzenbergs
SWY1802

Wenatchee Valley 1910--4-Year-Old Jonathans
SWY1803

Wenatchee Valley 1910--6-Year-Old Winter Banana