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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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SWY1804

Wenatchee Valley 1910--3-Year-Old Stayman Winesap
SWY1805

Wenatchee Valley 1910--5-Year-Old Black Ben Davis
SWY1806

Wenatchee Valley 1910--10-Year-Old Ben Davis
SWY1807

Wenatchee Valley 1910--Stayman Winesap
SWY1808

Wenatchee Valley 1910--Ben Davis
SWY1809

Wenatchee Valley 1910--W. T. Graham Orchard
SWY1810

Wenatchee Valley 1910--8-Year-Old Black Ben, W. T. Graham
SWY1811

Wenatchee Valley 1910--8-Year-Old Delaware Red, W. T. Graham
SWY1812

Wenatchee Valley 1910--8-Year-Old Stayman Winesap, W. T.Graham
SWY1813

Wenatchee Valley 1910--7-Year-Old Arkansas Black, L. W. Allyn
SWY1814

Wenatchee Valley 1910--9-Year-Old Tree Arkansas Black, L. W. Allyn
SWY1815

Wenatchee Valley 1910--9-Year-Old Spitzenberg, L. W. Allyn
SWY1816

Wenatchee Valley 1910--6-Year-Old Black Ben Davis, L. W. Allyn
SWY1817

Wenatchee Valley 1910--Barney & Williams Orchard
SWY1818

Wenatchee Valley 1910--11-Year-Old Ben Davis, Barney & Williams
SWY1819

Wenatchee Valley 1910--11-Year-Old Ben Davis, Barney & Williams
SWY1820

Wenatchee Valley 1910--Kieffer Pear Tree, Barney & Williams
SWY1821

Wenatchee Valley 1910--Limb of Kieffer Pear, Barney & Williams
SWY1822

Wenatchee Valley 1910--4-Year-Old Delicious, Barney & Williams
SWY1824

Okanogan--Government Irrigation Project & Pogues Flat
SWY1825

Okanogan--U.S. Government Ditch Showing Character of Construction
SWY1826

Okanogan--Government Irrigation Project
SWY1827

Okanogan--Orchard Lands Under U.S. Government Ditch near Omak
SWY1828

Okanogan--Grade of Great Northern near Town of Okanogan
SWY1829

Shoreline, Two Medicine Lake, Middle
SWY1830

Two Medicine Lake, Middle, Rockwell Mountain
SWY1831

Two Medicine Lake, Middle
SWY1832

Two Medicine Lake, Middle, Showing Rockwell Mountain
SWY1834

Two Medicine Lake, Middle, as Seen from East of Rising Wolf Mountain
SWY1835

Two Medicine Lake, Upper, Showing Mountain Lake
SWY1836

Two Medicine Lake, Lower
SWY1837

Looking North from Two Medicine Pass
SWY1838

Looking East from Two Medicine Pass
SWY1840

Glacier--Red Eagle Lake Trout
SWY1842

Red Eagle Creek, Red Eagle Mountain
SWY1843

Red Eagle Lake
SWY1844

Head of Red Eagle Lake
SWY1845

Looking Up the Cut Bank River
SWY1846

Looking Up the Cut Bank from Whiskey Trail
SWY1847

Mountains at Head of Cut Bank River
SWY1848

St Mary Lake Storm
SWY1850

St Mary Lake and River
SWY1851

Sunset, St Mary Lake
SWY1852

Wenatchee Valley Looking Southeast from Point Above the Turner Fruit Ranch
SWY1853

Wenatchee Valley Apple Orchards in Bloom, Turner Orchard in Foreground
SWY1854

Wenatchee Valley Apple Tree in Bloom--14-Year-Old Gravenstein, H. Hartman Fruit Ranch
SWY1855

Wenatchee Valley Apple Tree in Bloom--12-Year-Old Spitzenberg, Had 42 Boxes 1909, H. Hartman Fruit Ranch
SWY1856

Wenatchee Valley Pear Trees in Bloom--7-Year-Old Bartletts, H. Hartman
SWY1857

Wenatchee Valley Apple Trees in Bloom, 2 Trees Transcendent Crab, 12 Years Old, H. Hartman Ranch
SWY1858

Wenatchee Valley, H. Hartman Ranch, 12-Year-Old Bartlett Pear Tree