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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SWY2538

Wildflowers--Dogtooth Violets

SWY2539

Wildflowers--Dogtooth Violets

SWY2540

Wildflowers--Chalice Cup

SWY2541

Wildflowers--Chalice Cup

SWY2542

Wildflowers--Purple Aster

SWY2543

Wildflowers--Purple Aster

SWY2544

Wildflowers--Bed of Mariposa Lilies

SWY2545

Wildflowers--Bed of Mariposa Lilies

SWY2546

Wildflowers--Lily Mariposa, Wenatchee, Washington

SWY2547

Wildflowers--Lily Mariposa, Wenatchee, Washington

SWY2548

Wildflowers--Yellow Violets

SWY2549

Wildflowers--Yellow Violets

SWY2550

Wildflowers--Brown-Eyed Susans

SWY2551

Wildflowers--Brown-Eyed Susans

SWY2552

Wildflowers--Brown-Eyed Susans, Glacier National Park

SWY2553

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SWY2556

Glacier National Park Panorama, Many Glacier Hotel and Lake McDermitt from McDermitt Peak

SWY2558

Glacier National Park--Two Medicine Camp Chalet

SWY2559

Glacier National Park--Two Medicine Camp Chalet

SWY2560

Glacier National Park--Two Medicine Camp Chalet

SWY2561

Glacier National Park--Two Medicine Camp Chalets

SWY2562

Glacier National Park--Two Medicine Camp Chalets and Mt Rockwell

SWY2563

Glacier National Park--Lake St Mary Camp Chalets

SWY2564

Glacier National Park--Lake St Mary Camp Chalets

SWY2565

Glacier National Park--Lake St Mary Camp, Evening

SWY2566

Glacier National Park--Lake St Mary Camp Road and Chalet

SWY2567

Glacier National Park--Lake St Mary Camp Road and Chalet

SWY2568

Table Mountain and Bridge of the Gods, Columbia River

SWY2569

Columbia River--Cascade Rapids

SWY2570

Columbia river--Cascade Rapids and Cascade Locks

SWY2571

Columbia River--From Moffets

SWY2572

Columbia River--Looking West from Lyle Showing SP&S Railway Tunnels

SWY2573

SPand S Railway Track 3 Miles West of Lyle, Washington Showing Mosquito Island

SWY2574

SPand S Railway Track 3 Miles West of Lyle, Washington

SWY2575

SPand S Railway Track Looking Out of Tunnel No. 9

SWY2576

SPand S Railway Track Tunnel No. 5

SWY2577

SPand S Railway Shepherds Springs Bus, Wind River, Washington

SWY2578

SPand S Railway Shepherds Springs Hotel Bus, Wind River, Washington

SWY2579

Shepherds Springs Hotel Porch, Wind River, Washington

SWY2580

Zigzag Track, Shepherds Springs, Wind River, Washington</p>\r\n', '', '2');

SWY2581

Looking Up Wind River from near Shepherds Springs, Washington

SWY2582

Wind River, Washington

SWY2583

Wind River Falls, Washington--Fishing

SWY2584

Wind River, Washington--Fishing

SWY2585

Log Drive, Wind River, Washington

SWY2586

Log Drive, Wind River, Washington

SWY2587

Log Drive, Wind River, Washington

SWY2588

Bowles Lake near Stevenson, Washington

SWY2589

Upper Rock Creek Falls, Stevenson, Washington

SWY2590

Upper Rock Creek Falls, Stevenson, Washington