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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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SWY1297

Glacier National Park--Many Glacier Camp, Swiftcurrent Pass Trail, Rean-Campbell Party
SWY1298

Glacier National Park--Many Glacier Camp, Swiftcurrent Pass, Rean-Campbell Party
SWY1299

Glacier National Park--Many Glacier Camp, Party on Swiftcurrent Pass
SWY1300

Glacier National Park--Many Glacier Camp, Mt Wilbur from Swiftcurrent Pass
SWY1301

Glacier National Park--Many Glacier Camp, Lenhart Party
SWY1302

Glacier National Park--Many Glacier Camp, Party near Grinnell Lake
SWY1303

Glacier National Park--Many Glacier Camp, Gould Mountain
SWY1304

Glacier National Park--Many Glacier Camp, Gould Mountain
SWY1305

Glacier National Park--Many Glacier Camp, Artists at Work, Grinnell Lake
SWY1306

Glacier National Park--Many Glacier Camp, Mrs. Eaton on Horseback at Grinnell Lake
SWY1307

Glacier National Park--Many Glacier Hotel, Party on Piegan Pass Trail Showing Gould Mountain
SWY1308

Glacier National Park--Many Glacier Camp, Piegan Pass Trail, Stone-Eaton Party
SWY1309

Glacier National Park--Many Glacier Camp, Mr. Walter Pritchard Eaton on Piegan Pass Trail Showing Morning Eagle Falls in Background
SWY1310

Glacier National Park--Many Glacier Camp, Piegan Pass, Cook-Baker Party
SWY1311

Glacier National Park--Many Glacier Camp, Party on Piegan Pass Trail near Summit
SWY1312

Glacier National Park--Many Glacier Camp, on Piegan Pass Trail Showing Eagle Plume Falls
SWY1313

Glacier National Park--Many Glacier Camp, Piegan Pass Trail
SWY1314

Glacier National Park--Many Glacier Camp, Piegan Pass Trail near Summit Showing Eaton-Stone Party
SWY1315

Glacier National Park--Many Glacier Camp, Party on Piegan Pass, Eaton-Stone Party
SWY1316

Glacier National Park--Many Glacier Camp, Cataract Mountain Camp on Piegan Pass Trail
SWY1317

Glacier National Park--Many Glacier Camp, Piegan Mountain from Piegan Pass Trail
SWY1318

Glacier National Park--Many Glacier Camp, Looking South from Piegan Pass Trail
SWY1319

Glacier National Park--Many Glacier Camp, Park on Piegan Pass Trail
SWY1320

Glacier National Park--Many Glacier Camp, Ptarmigan Lake
SWY1321

Glacier National Park--Many Glacier Camp, Iceberg Lake, Reflection
SWY1322

Glacier National Park--Many Glacier Camp, Iceberg Lake
SWY1323

Glacier National Park--Many Glacier Camp, Iceberg Lake
SWY1324

Glacier National Park--Many Glacier Camp, Iceberg Lake Showing Castle Mountain
SWY1325

Glacier National Park--Many Glacier Camp, Looking Out of Cave at Iceberg Lake
SWY1326

Glacier National Park--Many Glacier Camp, Cave in Glacier at Iceberg Lake
SWY1327

Glacier National Park--Many Glacier Hotel, Party on Iceberg Lake Trail
SWY1328

Glacier National Park--Sperry Glacier Camp
SWY1329

Glacier National Park--Sperry Glacier Camp
SWY1330

Glacier National Park--Near Sperry Glacier Camp
SWY1331

Glacier National Park--Gunsight Mountain, Sperry Glacier Side from near Lincoln Pass
SWY1332

Glacier National Park--Gunsight Mountain near Sperry Glacier
SWY1333

Glacier National Park--Mt Jackson
SWY1334

Glacier National Park--Mt Jackson from Lincoln Pass, G.P.A. Party
SWY1335

Glacier National Park--G.P.A. Party and Mt Jackson
SWY1336

Glacier National Park--Lincoln Peak
SWY1337

Glacier National Park--Lake House Showing West Side of Gunsight Pass
SWY1338

Glacier National Park--G.P.A. Party , Sperry Glacier Camp
SWY1339

Glacier National Park--G.P.A. Party, near Sperry Glacier
SWY1340

Glacier National Park--G.P.A. Party, near Sperry Glacier
SWY1341

Glacier National Park--G.P.A. Party on Horseback, on Way to Sperry Glacier
SWY1342

Glacier National Park--G.P.A. Party on Board Launch, Lake McDonald
SWY1343

Glacier National Park--G.P.A. Party on Trail to Sperry Glacier
SWY1344

Glacier National Park--G.P.A. Party near Sperry Glacier Camp
SWY1345

Glacier National Park--G.P.A. Party near Sperry Glacier Camp
SWY1346

Glacier National Park--G.P.A. Party on West Side of Lincoln Pass