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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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SWY2743

Glacier National Park, Red Eagle--North End of Red Eagle Glacier
SWY2750

Kiser Photo Labels
SWY2751

Glacier National Park--Red Eagle Falls
SWY2752

Glacier National Park--Three Slipper Falls, Red Eagle Creek
SWY2753

Glacier National Park--Above the Clouds in Red Eagle Pass Showing Split Mountain
SWY2754

Glacier National Park, Red Eagle--Split Mountain in a Veil of Clouds as Seen from Red Eagle Pass
SWY2755

Glacier National Park, Red Eagle--After the Storm in Red Eagle Canyon
SWY2756

Glacier National Park, Red Eagle--Acres of Wildflowers, Red Eagle Pass
SWY2757

Glacier National Park, Red Eagle--Chief Falls as Seen from Red Eagle Pass, Head of Red Eagle Creek
SWY2758

Glacier National Park, Red Eagle--Split Mountain, West Side, from Red Eagle Pass
SWY2759

Glacier National Park, Red Eagle--Summit of Blackfoot Mountain, Mt Thompson in Distance
SWY2760

Glacier National Park, Red Eagle--Pumpelly Glacier as Seen from the Summit of Blackfoot Mountain
SWY2761

Glacier National Park, Red Eagle--Pumpelly Glacier as Seen from the Summit of Blackfoot Mountain
SWY2762

Glacier National Park, Red Eagle--East Side of Blackfoot Mountain from Red Eagle Glacier
SWY2763

Glacier National Park, Red Eagle--Looking East from Red Eagle Glacier, Red Eagle Lake 15 Miles Distant
SWY2764

Glacier National Park, Red Eagle--A Natural Park on Red Eagle Pass Showing Cliff Falls and Side of Split Mountain
SWY2765

Glacier National Park--Red Eagle Creek Showing South Side of Little Chief Mountain
SWY2766

Glacier National Park, Red Eagle--Indian Basket Grass Growing in One of the Beautiful Parks on Red Eagle Pass
SWY2767

Glacier National Park, Red Eagle--Looking Down on Red Eagle Glacier from Summit of Almost a Dog Mountain
SWY2768

Glacier National Park, Red Eagle--Blackfoot Glacier as Seen from Almost a Dog Mountain
SWY2769

Glacier National Park, Red Eagle--Park at Base of Split Mountain
SWY2770

Glacier National Park, Red Eagle--Chief Falls as Seen from near Trail over the Red Eagle Pass
SWY2771

Glacier National Park, Red Eagle--Trail on Summit of Red Eagle Pass
SWY2772

Glacier National Park, Red Eagle--A Rock Chimney at Base of Almost a Dog Mountain
SWY2773

Glacier National Park, Red Eagle--Chief Falls in Distance
SWY2774

Glacier National Park, Cut Bank--Panorama, Cut Bank
SWY2775

Glacier National Park, Cut Bank--Panorama, Cut Bank
SWY2776

Glacier National Park, Cut Bank--Panorama, Cut Bank
SWY2777

Glacier National Park--Panorama Narrows, Lake St Mary
SWY2778

Glacier National Park--Panorama Narrows, Lake St Mary
SWY2779

Glacier National Park--Panorama, Red Eagle
SWY2780

Glacier National Park--Panorama, Red Eagle
SWY2781

Glacier National Park--Panorama, Cut Bank
SWY2782

Glacier National Park--Panorama, Cut Bank
SWY2783

Glacier National Park--Panorama, Red Eagle Glacier Looking West
SWY2784

Glacier National Park--Panorama, Red Eagle
SWY2785

Glacier National Park--Panorama, Red Eagle
SWY2786

Glacier National Park--Panorama, Red Eagle
SWY2787

Glacier National Park--Panorama, Red Eagle
SWY2788

Glacier National Park--Chief Big Top, Lake St Mary
SWY2789

Glacier National Park--Three Hours\' Catch on Lake St Mary Narrows
SWY2790

Glacier National Park--Chief White Calf, Lake St Mary
SWY2791

Glacier National Park--Piegan Indians Camped on Lake St Mary
SWY2792

Glacier National Park--Piegan Pass Looking South from Summit of Pollock Mountain
SWY2793

Glacier National Park--Piegan Pass Looking South from Pollock Mountain, 500 Feet from Summit
SWY2794

Glacier National Park--Piegan Pass from Pollock Mountain
SWY2795

Glacier National Park--Looking North from Piegan Pass
SWY2796

Glacier National Park--Piegan Pass North Side of Going-to-the-Sun Mountain
SWY2797

Glacier National Park--Piegan Pass Looking South from Pollock Mountain
SWY2798

Glacier National Park--Piegan Pass Looking Southwest from Summit of Pollock Mountain