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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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SWY1194

Glacier National Park--Many Glacier Camp Showing Hotel, Lake and Mountain from McDermitt Peak (Wide Angle Lens)
SWY1195

Glacier National Park--Many Glacier Camp, Mt Wilbur and Lake McDermitt
SWY1196

Glacier National Park--Many Glacier Camp, Mt Wilbur
SWY1197

Glacier National Park--Many Glacier Camp, Sunset from Hotel Showing Mt Wilbur
SWY1198

Glacier National Park--Many Glacier Hotel, Showing Horseback Parties Starting Out
SWY1199

Glacier National Park--Many Glacier Hotel, Showing End and Crowd
SWY1200

Glacier National Park--Many Glacier Camp, Hotel and Crowds of People
SWY1201

Glacier National Park--Many Glacier Camp, Lenhart Party
SWY1202

Metolius Hotel--Metolius, Oregon
SWY1203

Metolius State Bank--Metolius, Oregon
SWY1204

Metolius--Down Crooked River Canyon
SWY1205

Metolius--Looking Down Crooked River Canyon Showing the Cove Ranch About 7 Miles West of Metolius
SWY1206

Metolius--Fishermen Camping in the Crooked River Canyon About 7 Miles West of Metolius
SWY1207

Metolius--Wagon Roads Along Crooked River Canyon
SWY1208

Lamonta, Oregon-Culver Dry Farming Country 14 Miles East of Metolius
SWY1209

Culver, Oregon--Wheat Field (Shocked) Showing Three Sisters Just West of Culver
SWY1210

Culver, Oregon--Combined Harvester, Rodman Ranch near Culver
SWY1211

Culver, Oregon--Dry Farming Country 2½ Miles Southeast of Culver Showing Mt Jefferson
SWY1212

Culver, Oregon--Stacks of Wheat, Dry Farm Just West of Culver
SWY1213

Culver, Oregon--Stacks of Grain near Culver
SWY1214

Grizzly Butte Country, Oregon, North Side of Butte--Dry Farming, Morrow and Keenan Ranch, Owners of 16,000 Acres
SWY1216

Grizzly Butte Country, Oregon, North Side of Butte--Panorama, Looking Northeast from Morrow and Keenan Ranch
SWY1217

Grizzly Butte Country, Oregon, North Side of Butte--Dry Farms
SWY1219

Powell Butte General View About 17 Miles Northeast of Bend, Oregon
SWY1220

Pilot Butte General View About 17 Miles Northeast of Bend, Oregon
SWY1221

Pilot Butte General View About 15 Miles Northeast of Bend, Oregon
SWY1222

Powell Butte, Oregon--Shocked Oats and Pilot Butte
SWY1223

Pilot Butte, Oregon--Farm of E. A. Bussett--Garden, House, Barn, etc.
SWY1224

Pilot Butte, Oregon--Alfalfa, Second Crop--E. A. Bussett--Irrigated
SWY1225

Powell Butte, Oregon Wheat Field--E. A. Bussett--Irrigated
SWY1227

Powell Butte, Oregon Onion Field--George Beckman Ranch
SWY1228

The Sisters, Oregon--Clover Hay Stack, C. L. Johnson Ranch
SWY1229

The Sisters Country, Oregon--Alfalfa Hay Stack, 80 Tons--Fred Wiese Ranch 15 Miles from Redmond, 5 Miles from Sisters
SWY1230

The Sisters, Oregon--Overlooking Farming Country Showing the Three Sisters About 8 Miles East from the Town of Sisters
SWY1231

The Sisters, Oregon--Squaw Creek Irrigation Ditch
SWY1232

The Sisters, Oregon--G. G. Gerking Ranch 3 Miles North of Laidlaw--Hay Stack, 100 Tons
SWY1233

The Three Sisters from near Road Between Redmond, Oregon and The Sisters
SWY1234

Redmond, Oregon--Bank
SWY1235

Redmond, Oregon--Main Street
SWY1236

Redmond, Oregon--Store, Church etc.
SWY1237

Redmond, Oregon--Alfalfa Hay Stack 3 Miles Southwest from Redmond, R. D. Chesley Ranch, Pleasant Valley
SWY1238

Redmond, Oregon--Chicken Ranch, F. G. Bancroft
SWY1239

Redmond, Oregon--Alfalfa, Second Cutting, Shocked--C. D. Jarrett Ranch 2½ Miles Southwest of Redmond
SWY1240

Redmond, Oregon--Alfalfa, Second Cutting, Shocked--C. D. Jarrett Ranch 2½ Miles Southwest of Redmond
SWY1241

Redmond, Oregon--Alfalfa and Grain Fields, Low Smith Ranch, 4 Miles West of Redmond
SWY1242

Redmond, Oregon--Potato Field 2 Mile West of Redmond
SWY1243

Redmond, Oregon--Cline Falls, Deschute River Ranch
SWY1244

Redmond, Oregon--Town from Butte, Washington
SWY1245

Prineville, Oregon--Hotel Prineville and Main Street
SWY1246

Prineville, Oregon--Flouring Mill