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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SWY2319

Redwood Highway--Smith River

SWY2320

Redwood Highway & Smith River

SWY2321

Redwood Highway--Smith River

SWY2322

Redwood Highway--Coon Creek

SWY2323

Redwood Highway--Patrick Creek

SWY2324

Redwood Highway--Patrick Creek

SWY2325

Redwood Highway--Patrick Creek

SWY2326

Redwood Highway--Calla Lilies and Beach (without Figure)

SWY2327

Redwood Highway--Calla Lilies and Beach (with Figure)

SWY2328

Redwood Highway--Magnetic Beach

SWY2329

Redwood Highway--The Beach--Highway near Lee\'s

SWY2330

Redwood Highway--The Beach and Highway near Lee\'s Showing Road

SWY2331

Redwood Highway--Beach

SWY2332

Redwood Highway--Highway & Surf near Crescent City

SWY2333

Redwood Highway--Azaleas & the Sea

SWY2334

Redwood Highway--Surf near Giant Redwood Park

SWY2335

Redwood Highway--Magnetic Beach

SWY2336

Redwood Highway--Magnetic Beach

SWY2337

Redwood Highway--Iris and Beach

SWY2338

Redwood Highway--Fly Trap Plant, Darlingtonia Californica

SWY2340

Redwood Highway--Old Hen & Chickens, Magnetic Beach

SWY2341

Redwood Highway--Purple Lilac

SWY2342

Redwood Highway--Purple Lilac

SWY2343

Redwood Highway--Lilies Growing on Log

SWY2344

Redwood Highway--Redwood Log

SWY2345

Redwood Highway--Azaleas

SWY2346

Redwood Highway--Lupine and Old Stump

SWY2347

Pacific Highway--Pioneer Bridge

SWY2348

Pacific Highway--Along the Umpqua

SWY2349

Pacific Highway--Umpqua Auto Camp

SWY2350

Pacific Highway--Umpqua Auto Camp

SWY2351

Pacific Highway--Umpqua Auto Camp

SWY2352

Pacific Highway--Sunset, Umpqua River

SWY2353

Oregon Caves Road--Sucker Creek

SWY2354

Oregon Caves Road-Timber on Side of Mountain

SWY2355

Oregon Caves Road

SWY2356

Oregon Caves Road

SWY2357

Oregon Caves Road

SWY2358

Redwood Tree, Mill Creek Park

SWY2360

Multnomah Falls

SWY2361

Sunset Mt Hood from White River from Griffin\'s Place

SWY2362

Mt Hood Loop & Mt Hood from near Government Camp

SWY2365

Mt Hood from White River

SWY2366

Mt Hood from Government Camp

SWY2367

Mt Hood Loop and Mt Hood near Elk Meadows

SWY2368

Mt Hood & Mt Hood Loop

SWY2369

Mt Hood from Buzzards Point

SWY2370

Mt Hood & Loop from near Buzzards Point

SWY2371

Rhododendrons & Mt Hood

SWY2372

Sahalie Falls--Mt Hood Loop, Willamette National Forest, Oregon