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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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SWY2693

Cosley Lake--Showing Mt McDermott from Cosley Lake, Glacier National Park 1920
SWY2694

Cosley Lake and Mt Cleveland, Glacier National Park 1920
SWY2695

Cosley Lake--Summit of Mt Cleveland as Seen from near Cosley Lake, Glacier National Park 1920
SWY2696

Cosley Lake, Mt Cleveland to Right, Glacier National Park 1920
SWY2697

Cosley Lake--Elizabeth Lake, Glacier National Park 1920
SWY2698

Elizabeth Lake--Sunset on Elizabeth Lake, Glacier National Park 1920
SWY2699

Elizabeth Lake--Helen Cascades, Glacier National Park 1920
SWY2700

Elizabeth Lake--Mist Falls, Glacier National Park 1920
SWY2701

Elizabeth Lake--Down Mist Falls, Glacier National Park 1920
SWY2702

Elizabeth Lake--South Fork of the Bellly River, Glacier National Park 1920
SWY2703

Elizabeth Lake--Ahern Glaciers as Seen from near Lake Helen, Glacier National Park 1920
SWY2704

Elizabeth Lake--Helen Lake, Glacier National Park 1920
SWY2705

Elizabeth Lake--Mt Cleveland as Seen from Belly River, Glacier National Park 1920
SWY2706

Logan Pass--Looking North from Logan Pass, Glacier National Park 1920</p>\r\n', '', '2');
SWY2707

Logan Pass--Summit of Mt Clements as Seen from Logan Pass, Glacier National Park 1920
SWY2708

Logan Pass, Glacier National Park 1920
SWY2709

Logan Pass--Looking East from Logan Pass, Glacier National Park 1920
SWY2710

Logan Pass--Looking East from Logan Pass, Glacier National Park 1920
SWY2711

Logan Pass Trail, Glacier National Park 1920
SWY2712

Logan Pass Trail Showing Haystack Butte, Glacier National Park 1920
SWY2713

Logan Pass--Looking Northwest from Logan Pass Trail Showing Granite Park, Glacier National Park 1920
SWY2714

Logan Pass Trail, Glacier National Park 1920
SWY2715

Logan Pass Trail, Glacier National Park 1920
SWY2716

Logan Pass--Heavens Peak and Lake McDonald from Logan Pass Trail, Glacier National Park 1920
SWY2717

Logan Pass--Sunset, McDonald Canyon from Logan Pass Trail, Glacier National Park 1920
SWY2718

Hidden Lake--Looking West from near Hidden Lake, Glacier National Park 1920
SWY2719

Hidden Lake--Mt Reynolds as Seen from hidden Lake, Glacier National Park 1920
SWY2720

Hidden Lake, Glacier National Park 1920
SWY2721

Hidden Lake--Sunset, Glacier National Park 1920
SWY2722

Brown Pass--Lake Jaunt, Glacier National Park 1920--CRACKED
SWY2723

Waterton Lake, Glacier National Park 1920
SWY2724

Waterton Lake, Glacier National Park 1920
SWY2725

Margaret Lake, Glacier National Park 1920
SWY2726

Margaret Lake--Shoreline, Glacier National Park 1920
SWY2727

Head of Bowman Lake, Glacier National Park 1920
SWY2728

Bowman Lake, Glacier National Park 1920
SWY2729

Indian Pass--North from Summit of Indian Pass, Glacier National Park 1920
SWY2730

Indian Pass--East from Indian Pass, Glacier National Park 1920
SWY2731

Indian Pass--Looking East from Summit of Indian Pass, Glacier National Park 1920
SWY2732

Indian Pass--East from Indian Pass, Glacier National Park 1920
SWY2733

Indian Pass--Falls (2) on Indian Pass, Glacier National Park 1920
SWY2734

Indian Pass--Falls (2) on Indian Pass, Glacier National Park 1920
SWY2735

Indian Pass--Falls on Indian Pass as Seen from Trail, Glacier National Park 1920
SWY2736

Indian Pass--Pappoose Falls, Glacier National Park 1920
SWY2737

Indian Pass--Twin Falls, Two Medicine Lake--Man in Bushes, Glacier National Park 1920
SWY2738

Many Glacier--Lake McDermott & Many Glacier Hotel, Glacier National Park 1920
SWY2739

Many Glacier Hotel, Glacier National Park 1920
SWY2739a

Many Glacier--East Side of the Garden Wall as Seen from Swiftcurrent Trail, Glacier National Park 1920
SWY2741

Lone Hemlock, Bird Creek Meadows--<span>Yakama Nation Mount Adams Recreation Area</span>
SWY2742

Glacier National Park, Many Glacier--The Swiftcurrent Trail and Swiftcurrent Peak