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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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SWY1347

Glacier National Park--G.P.A. Party Going Up West Side of Lincoln Pass
SWY1348

Glacier National Park--G.P.A. Party near Summit of Lincoln Pass
SWY1349

Glacier National Park--From Gunsight Lake Camp, Storm, Showing Almost a Dog Mountain
SWY1350

From Gunsight Lake Camp--Storm--Showing Gunsight Pass & Mt Jackson in the Clouds
SWY1351

Pack Train on East Side of Gunsight Pass Showing Gunsight Lake, Going-to-the-Sun Mountain
SWY1352

Pack Train on East Side of Gunsight Pass
SWY1353

Pack Train on East Side of Gunsight Pass Showing Gunsight Lake, Going-to-the-Sun Mountain
SWY1354

East Side of Gunsight Pass Showing Pack Train
SWY1355

East Side of Gunsight Pass Showing Pack Train & Going-to-the-Sun Mountain
SWY1356

North Side of Gunsight Pass Showing Pack Train near Summit
SWY1357

On the Trail to Avalanche Basin
SWY1358

Avalanche Lake, Heavens Peak in Distance
SWY1359

Avalanche Lake, Showing Mt McPartland & Heavens Peak
SWY1360

Glacier--Avalanche Lake, Showing Rim of Avalanche Basin
SWY1361

Avalanche Lake
SWY1362

Avalanche Lake
SWY1363

Shoreline, Avalanche Lake
SWY1364

On the Trail at Base of Goat Mountain
SWY1365

St Mary Lake Region--North Side of Citadel Mountain
SWY1366

St Mary Lake Region--Side of Citadel Mountain
SWY1367

St Mary Lake Region--St Mary Peak & Citadel Mountain
SWY1368

St Mary Lake Region--Going-to-the-Sun Mountain
SWY1369

Glacier--St Mary Lake, Going-to-the-Sun Mountain
SWY1370

St Mary Lake Region--Little Chief Mountain from Trail Around Goat Mountain
SWY1371

St Mary Lake Region--The Narrows Camp
SWY1372

Glacier--St Mary Lake & Kootenai Mountain from The Narrows Camp
SWY1373

Glacier--St Mary Lake from the Golden Stairs
SWY1374

St Mary Lake Region--Moonlight, a Stormy Night, Lake St Mary
SWY1375

St Mary Lake Region--Looking South from Base of Going-to-the-Sun Mountain
SWY1376

St Mary Lake Region--St Mary Lake & Little Chief Mountain
SWY1377

Glacier--St Mary Lake--Goat Mountain & Going-to-the-Sun Mountain
SWY1378

St Mary Lake Region--Upper End St Mary Lake
SWY1379

St Mary Lake
SWY1380

St Mary Lake
SWY1381

Glacier--Upper End, St Mary Lake
SWY1382

St Mary Lake--Shoreline of St Mary Lake from Upper Narrows
SWY1383

St Mary Lake--The Lower Narrows Showing Side of Red Eagle, Kootenai Mountain, Divide Mountain
SWY1384

St Mary Lake--Lower End of St Mary Lake Showing The Narrows Camp
SWY1385

Glacier--Going-to-the-Sun Mountain & Shoreline of St Mary Lake
SWY1386

Glacier--St Mary Lake & Going-to-the-Sun Mountain
SWY1387

Glacier--Going-to-the-Sun Mountain & Shoreline of St Mary Lake
SWY1388

Divide Mountain & Lower End of St Mary Lake from Singleshot Mountain
SWY1389

Dan Cloody, Park Ranger
SWY1390

Swiftcurrent Region--From Sherburne Lake
SWY1391

Swiftcurrent Region--From Sherburne Lake
SWY1392

Swiftcurrent Region--Across from Sherburne Lake
SWY1393

Swiftcurrent Region--McDermott Falls
SWY1394

Swiftcurrent Region--McDermott Falls & Grinnell Lake
SWY1395

Swiftcurrent Region--"Touring the Park" Showing McDermott Mountain
SWY1396

Swiftcurrent Region--"Touring the Park" Showing McDermott Peak