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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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SWY1247

Prineville, Oregon--High School and Annex and Public School
SWY1248

Prineville, Oregon--Residences
SWY1249

Glacier National Park--Many Glacier Camp, Lenhart Party
SWY1250

Prineville, Oregon--Courthouse
SWY1251

Prineville, Oregon--Bank
SWY1252

Prineville, Oregon--Stock Ranch, M. R. Biggs, Alfalfa, Second Cutting Irrigated
SWY1253

Prineville, Oregon--Hay and Stock Ranch, H. S. Cramm, Owner--Potatoes, Irrigated
SWY1254

Prineville, Oregon--Home of H. S. Cramm, Stock Ranch
SWY1255

Prineville, Oregon--Hay--3 Stacks of Wild Hay, 2 Stacks of Alfalfa, H. S. Cramm Ranch</p>\r\n', '', '2');
SWY1256

Prineville, Oregon--Alfalfa and Wild Hay Showing Feeding Pens, H. S. Cramm Ranch
SWY1257

Prineville, Oregon--Oats, G. F. Buchanan Ranch
SWY1258

Prineville, Oregon--Stacks of Dry Farm Grain--6 of Wheat, 2 of Rye, E. T. Slayton
SWY1259

Prineville, Oregon--Oat Field, E. T. Slayton, Irrigated
SWY1260

Bend, Oregon--Schoolhouse
SWY1261

Bend, Oregon--Dam on the Deschutes, Flouring Mill
SWY1262

Bend, Oregon--Residences--Putman
SWY1263

Bend, Oregon--Residences--D. E. Hunters Realty Co., Owners
SWY1264

Bend, Oregon--Residences--D. E. Hunters Realty Co.
SWY1265

Bend, Oregon--Residences--D. E. Hunters Realty Co.
SWY1266

Bend, Oregon--Looking Up the Deschutes from the D. E. Hunters Realty Property
SWY1267

Bend, Oregon--Deschutes River from near Town
SWY1268

Deschutes River
SWY1269

Bend, Oregon--Up the Deschutes About ¼ South of Bend
SWY1270

Bend, Oregon--Deschutes River About 12 Miles South of Bend
SWY1271

Bend, Oregon--Swallow Ditch and Deschutes River 1 Mile Below Town
SWY1272

Bend, Oregon--Pine Trees
SWY1273

Bend, Oregon--Pine Trees
SWY1274

Bend, Oregon--Pine Timber
SWY1275

Bend, Oregon--Pine Timber
SWY1276

Bend, Oregon--Road Through Pine Forest
SWY1277

Bend, Oregon--Rolling Pine Logs into the Deschutes River
SWY1278

Bend, Oregon--Pilot Butte Ranch 5 Miles East of Bend
SWY1279

Crooked River Bridge under Construction
SWY1280

Near the Head of Crooked River Canyon, Oregon
SWY1281

Bend, Oregon--Looking Down the Deschutes River About 11 Miles South of Bend
SWY1282

Glacier National Park--Many Glacier Hotel, Mt Wilbur from Balcony
SWY1283

Glacier National Park--Many Glacier Hotel, Balcony
SWY1284

Glacier National Park--Many Glacier Hotel, Balcony
SWY1285

Glacier National Park--Many Glacier Camp, Auto Road near Many Glacier Hotel
SWY1286

Glacier National Park--Many Glacier Hotel, Auto Road near Many Glacier Hotel
SWY1287

Glacier National Park--Many Glacier Hotel, Auto Road and 3 Auto Buses
SWY1288

Glacier National Park, Many Glacier Camp--Swiftcurrent Pass Trail Showing Garden Wall
SWY1289

Glacier National Park--Many Glacier Camp, Swiftcurrent Pass Trail
SWY1290

Glacier National Park--Many Glacier Camp, Looking East from Swiftcurrent Pass
SWY1291

Glacier National Park--Many Glacier Camp Looking East from Swiftcurrent Camp
SWY1292

Glacier National Park--Many Glacier Camp, Swiftcurrent Pass Showing Garden Wall
SWY1293

Glacier National Park--Many Glacier Camp, Swiftcurrent Pass Trail Party on Switchbacks
SWY1294

Glacier National Park--Many Glacier Camp, Swiftcurrent Pass Looking East Showing Eight Lake
SWY1295

Glacier National Park--Many Glacier Camp, Swiftcurrent Pass Rean-Campbell Party
SWY1296

Glacier National Park--Many Glacier Camp, Party on Swiftcurrent Pass Snowbank