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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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SWY2373

Sahalie Falls, Willamette National Forest, Oregon, for Narrow Panel

SWY2374

Yakima Falls, Washington--Long Shot

SWY2375

Yakima Falls, Washington--Close Up

SWY2376

Rhododendrons Growing Along Mt Hood Loop

SWY2377

Rhododendrons & Mt Hood Loop

SWY2378

Barlow Monument near Government Camp, Mt Hood Loop

SWY2379

Lake without Boat

SWY2380

Lake (across) (with Boat)

SWY2381

Lake (across) (without Boat)

SWY2382

Lake

SWY2383

Lake (without Boat)

SWY2384

Crater Lake and Tree Poem

SWY2385

Crater Lake Poem

SWY2386

Crater Lake (copy)

SWY2387

Vista House, Columbia River

SWY2388

Vista House, Columbia River

SWY2389

Vista House, Columbia River

SWY2390

Rhododendrons & Mt Hood

SWY2391

Rhododendrons--Large Bush

SWY2392

Rhododendrons--Large Bush

SWY2393

Mt Hood Loop and Mt Hood

SWY2394

Lake (with Boat)

SWY2395

Unlabeled

SWY2396

Unlabeled

SWY2397

Flowers on a tablecloth

SWY2398

Unlabeled

SWY2399

Unlabeled

SWY2400

Unlabeled

SWY2401

Unlabeled

SWY2402

Unlabeled

SWY2403

SP&S Railway--Amber Lake Looking West

SWY2404

SP&S Railway--Amber Lake Looking West

SWY2405

SP&S Railway--Snake River Train

SWY2406

SP&S Railway--Snake River

SWY2407

SP&S Railway--Snake River

SWY2408

SP&S Railway--Snake River

SWY2409

SP&S Railway--Snake River High Bridge

SWY2410

near Crater Lake, Winter (1926)

SWY2411

near Crater Lake, Winter

SWY2412

near Crater Lake, Winter--Three Trees, Garfield Peak

SWY2413

near Crater Lake, Winter

SWY2414

near Crater Lake, Winter

SWY2415

Mt Hood Loop and Mt Hood, Hood River Valley

SWY2416

Mt Hood Loop & Mt Hood, Hood River Valley--Sunset

SWY2417

Charles Lindbergh Over Crater Lake

SWY2418

Crater Lake, Snow (1927)

SWY2419

Crater Lake, Snow (1927)

SWY2420

Crater Lake, Snow (1927) Lone Pine

SWY2421

Crater Lake Looking East from Kiser Rim Trail Showing Mt Scott--Snow (1927)

SWY2422

Crater Lake Sunset (1927)