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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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SWY2899

Deschutes, Oregon--Panorama #3, Cascades Range from Long Butte
SWY2900

Deschutes, Oregon--Looking Southeast from Long Butte over Farming Section
SWY2901

Deschutes, Oregon--Three Sisters from Long Butte
SWY2902

Deschutes, Oregon--Three Sisters from Long Butte
SWY2903

Crooked River--Crooked River Canyon Looking Up, Showing Bridge
SWY2904

Crooked River--Crooked River Canyon Looking Up, Showing Bridge
SWY2905

Crooked River--Crooked River Canyon Looking Up from Top of Rim, Showing Bridge
SWY2906

Crooked River--Crooked River Canyon Looking Down from Top of Rim, Bridge in Distance
SWY2907

Crooked River--Down Crooked River, Looking Downstream from Bottom of Canyon Showing Bridge & Pine Tree
SWY2907A

Crooked River--Down Crooked River, Looking Downstream from Bottom of Canyon, Bridge in Distance
SWY2908

Crooked River--Crooked River Canyon Looking Down Showing Bridge & Rock Pinnacle
SWY2909

Crooked River--Bridge Over Crooked River Canyon Looking Along the Side of Bridge from South Approach
SWY2910

Crooked River--Crooked River Bridge, East Side, Looking Down Canyon from Top of Rim
SWY2911

Fallbridge, Columbia River
SWY2912

Fallbridge--Looking Up the Columbia River from near Fallbridge--Tracks of the SPand S
SWY2913

Fallbridge--Looking Up the Columbia River from Center of Celilo Bridge
SWY2914

Fallbridge--Celilo Bridge on Second Span, North End
SWY2915

Fallbridge--Celilo Bridge
SWY2916

Fallbridge--Celilo Bridge
SWY2917

Fallbridge--Celilo Bridge
SWY2919

Fallbridge--Celilo Bridge Showing Part of Wye & All of Bridge from Below
SWY2920

Fallbridge--Celilo Bridge Showing Part of Wye Only
SWY2921

Fallbridge--Celilo Bridge Looking Along East Leg of the Wye--Wye Only
SWY2922

Fallbridge--Celilo Bridge Showing Swift Waer of the Columbia
SWY2923

Fallbridge--Celilo Bridge
SWY2924

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SWY2925

Fallbridge--Celilo Bridge Showing SP&S Freight Train Crossing Bridge
SWY2926

Fallbridge--Celilo Bridge
SWY2927

Fallbridge--Celilo Bridge from Rock Bluff
SWY2928

Beach at Seaside, Oregon
SWY2929

Train at Seaside, Oregon
SWY2930

Seaside, Oregon Cottages
SWY2931

Cottages--Seaside, Oregon
SWY2932

Cottage, Seaside, Oregon
SWY2933

Beach and Pier at Seaside, Oregon
SWY2934

Seaside, Oregon--Cannon Beach Road
SWY2935

Hotel Warren--View from Veranda, Cannon Beach, Oregon
SWY2936

The Brannon Cottage, Cannon Beach, Oregon
SWY2937

Cannon Beach, Oregon
SWY2938

Cannon Beach Showing Haystack Rock, Oregon
SWY2939

Surf from Back of Haystack Rock, Oregon
SWY2940

Haystack Rock, Cannon Beach, Oregon
SWY2941

Haystack Rock, Cannon Beach, Oregon
SWY2942

Elk Creek Hotel, Cannon Beach, Oregon
SWY2943

Boardwalk and Road, Gearhart, Oregon
SWY2944

Golf Links, Gearhart, Oregon
SWY2945

Cottages, Gearhart, Oregon
SWY2946

Cottages and Beach, Gearhart, Oregon
SWY2947

Glacier National Park, Many Glacier Camp--Party on Iceberg Lake Trail
SWY2948

Glacier National Park, Many Glacier Camp--St Epone Iceberg Lake Trail