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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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SWY1600

Libby, Montana--Kootenai River near Libby, Sunset
SWY1601

Libby, Montana--Sturgeon Caught in Kootenai
SWY1602

Libby, Montana--Pine Forests
SWY1603

Libby, Montana--Pine Forests
SWY1604

Pine Forests, Central Oregon
SWY1606

Libby, Montana--Pine Forests near Libby
SWY1607

Libby, Montana--Clearing Ground for Orchard Planting
SWY1608

Libby, Montana--Clearing Ground near Libby for Orchard Use
SWY1609

Libby, Montana--Joseph Cechlovsky Ranch
SWY1610

Libby, Montana--George Brown Ranch, Kootenai River
SWY1611

Libby, Montana--Kootenai River Showing C. W. Richards Ranch
SWY1612

Libby, Montana--John Frederick Ranch
SWY1613

Libby, Montana--Homestead Cabin near Libby
SWY1614

Libby, Montana--Along the Kootenai River near Libby
SWY1615

Bonners Ferry, Idaho--Town
SWY1616

Bonners Ferry, Idaho--Kootenai River
SWY1617

Bonners Ferry, Idaho--Sunset, Kootenai River
SWY1618

Bonners Ferry, Idaho--Lumber Mill and Great Northern Track Main Line
SWY1619

Bonners Ferry, Idaho--Trainload of Pine Logs--60,000 Feet in Car
SWY1620

Bonners Ferry, Idaho--Orchard 12 Miles Northwest of Town on Great Northern Railway Branch
SWY1621

Bonners Ferry, Idaho--Stoyfeller Ranch 6 Miles North of Town on Banks of Kootenai River
SWY1622

Bonners Ferry, Idaho--Stoyfeller Ranch--6-Year-Old King Apple
SWY1623

Bonners Ferry, Idaho--Character of Land Along Kootenai River 12 Miles from Town
SWY1624

Bonners Ferry, Idaho--Kootenai River--Great Northern Railway Track, Bitterroot Range
SWY1625

Bonners Ferry, Idaho--Pine Forests
SWY1626

Bonners Ferry, Idaho--Orchard of Davis Ranch--6-Year-Old Wagner
SWY1627

Bonners Ferry, Idaho--Orchard of Davis Ranch--6-Year-Old Mackintosh Red
SWY1628

Bonners Ferry, Idaho--Orchard of Davis Ranch
SWY1629

Bonners Ferry, Idaho--Kenshaw Ranch, Bench land Above Kootenai River
SWY1630

Bonners Ferry, Idaho--Plato Ranch 1½ Miles North of Town
SWY1631

Eureka, Montana--Panorama, Tobacco Plains Valley
SWY1632

Eureka, Montana--Panorama, Tobacco Plains Valley
SWY1633

Eureka, Montana--Tobacco Plains Valley
SWY1634

Eureka, Montana--Tobacco Plains Valley
SWY1635

Eureka, Montana--Tobacco Plains Valley
SWY1636

Eureka, Montana--Tobacco Plains Valley
SWY1637

Eureka, Montana--Tobacco Plains Valley
SWY1638

Eureka, Montana--Tobacco Plains Valley
SWY1639

Eureka, Montana--Tobacco Plains Valley
SWY1640

Eureka, Montana--Tobacco Plains Valley
SWY1641

Eureka, Montana--Tobacco Plains Valley
SWY1642

Eureka, Montana--Tobacco Plains Valley, Field of Winter Wheat
SWY1643

Portland, Oregon Rose Festival 1910 Electric Parade Float No. 9, Miss Portland--Fair Queen of Flowers
SWY1644

Portland, Oregon Rose Festival 1910 Electric Parade Float No. 10, Durbar of India
SWY1645

Portland, Oregon Rose Festival 1910 Electric Parade Float No. 11, Don Quixote
SWY1646

Portland, Oregon Rose Festival 1910 Electric Parade Float No. 13, Titania--Queen of the Fairies
SWY1647

Portland, Oregon Rose Festival 1910 Electric Parade Float No. 14, Amphitrite--Queen of the Sea
SWY1648

Portland, Oregon Rose Festival 1910 Children\'s Parade
SWY1649

Portland, Oregon Rose Festival 1910 Children\'s Parade
SWY1650

Portland, Oregon Rose Festival 1910 Children\'s Parade