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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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SWY2591

Klickitat River, Washington--The Narrows
SWY2592

Klickitat River, Washington and Mt Hood
SWY2593

Klickitat River, Washington Showing Mt Hood
SWY2594

Willamette River Swing Bridge, Portland, Oregon
SWY2595

Glacier National Park--Lake St Mary Camp Chalet
SWY2596

Lake St Mary Camp Boat Landing
SWY2597

Glacier National Park--Lake St Mary Camp Lower Lake and Mountains
SWY2598

Glacier National Park--Chief Mountain
SWY2599

Glacier National Park--Chief Mountain
SWY2600

Glacier National Park--Chief Mountain Seen from St Mary River
SWY2601

Glacier National Park--Yellow and Chief Mountains
SWY2602

Glacier National Park--Rising Wolf Mountain from Mt Morgan Trail
SWY2603

Glacier National Park--Rising Wolf Mountain from Prairie Auto Road
SWY2604

Lynch Peak, Washington--Cloud Effect from Mt Morgan Trail
SWY2605

Glacier National Park--Red Eagle Lake
SWY2606

Glacier National Park--Cut Bank Chalets--Sunset from Cut Bank River
SWY2607

Glacier National Park--Triple Divide Trail--7 Miles from Cut Bank
SWY2608

Glacier National Park--Mt Morgan Trail Showing Mt Morgan
SWY2609

Glacier National Park--Mt Henry Trail
SWY2610

Glacier National Park--Lake McDonald Showing Mt Wilbur
SWY2611

Glacier National Park--Charley Russell\'s Cabin, Lake McDonald
SWY2612

Glacier National Park--Lake McDonald, Lewis Hotel
SWY2613

Glacier National Park--Lewis Hotel Glacier, Lake McDonald
SWY2614

Glacier National Park--Sperry Glacier Camp Chalets from Trail--Telephoto
SWY2615

Glacier National Park--Sperry Glacier Chalets from Sperry Glacier Trail
SWY2616

Glacier National Park--Sperry Glacier Camp from Sperry Glacier Trail
SWY2617

Glacier National Park--Sperry Glacier Camp Chalet
SWY2618

Glacier National Park--Sperry Glacier Camp Chalets
SWY2619

Glacier National Park--Sperry Glacier Camp Chalet
SWY2620

Glacier National Park--Sperry Glacier Camp Chalets
SWY2621

Glacier National Park--Sperry Glacier Camp Chalet
SWY2622

Glacier National Park--Sperry Glacier Camp Chalet
SWY2623

Glacier National Park--Sperry Glacier Camp--Trail near Chalets
SWY2624

Glacier National Park--Sperry Glacier Camp--Party near Trail Just Below Chalets
SWY2625

Glacier National Park--Gunsight Pass Showing Howard Eaton Party
SWY2626

Glacier National Park--Gunsight Pass Showing Howard Eaton Party
SWY2627

Glacier National Park--Gunsight Pass Trail, Lincoln Peak
SWY2628

Kalispell, Montana Oat Field, George Kirk
SWY2629

Kalispell, Montana Oat Field, George Kirk
SWY2630

Wenatchee, Washington Apple Orchard
SWY2631

Kalispell, Montana Wheat Field, Henry Peterman
SWY2632

Kalispell, Montana Wheat Field, Henry Peterman
SWY2633

Kalispell, Montana Oat Field, J. Kennedy
SWY2634

Kalispell, Montana Oat Field, 40 Acres, W. J. Shoemaker
SWY2635

Kalispell, Montana Wheat Field, 40 Acres, J. Edge
SWY2636

Kalispell, Montana Christ Prestbye Farm
SWY2637

Kalispell, Montana Wheat Field, Christ Prestbye Farm
SWY2638

Glacier National Park--McDermott Falls and Grinnell Mountain
SWY2639

Glacier National Park--McDermott Falls Showing Gould Mountain
SWY2640

Glacier National Park--Glacier Hotel Fish Pond and Club Room