From the Archives of the
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| "Through His Eyes: A Broader Perspective" |
The Russell Sawyer Collection consists of over 10,000 negatives and spans 50 years of Blue Water history.
| Russell Sawyer was born in Port Huron on May 3, 1907. Although he shadowed area photographers and took a photography course in Detroit, Mr. Sawyer was largely self-taught. It is due to his care and technique that these negatives are still available and viable. It is because of his passion, energy, and skill, that we can once again revisit the ships, street scenes, and faces of our area's past.
It is with immense gratitude that we acknowledge the Sawyer family, whose generosity has brought this wonderful collection back to our community. When Mr. Sawyer passed away in 1989, the family held an estate sale and much of his equipment and some of his negatives and prints were purchased. After much consideration and gentle coaxing, the family agreed to donate the remaining items to the museum on the condition that they be shared with the community and not merely put in storage.
The negatives in this collection are of various sizes, including 35mm, 120, 2" x 3," and 4" x 5." Using a negative scanner, the images have now been saved as digital .jpg files.
Please check back periodically as images will be frequently posted until the entire 9,000+ collection is posted.
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Proceeds from the Russell Sawyer Collection will be invested in preserving, presenting, and improving the museum's collections. |
For those interested in obtaining reprints from this collection, please contact the Curator of Collections at the Port Huron Museum, and indicate "Sawyer Reprint" as the subject. As this is a new endeavor for the museum, an order form and/or PayPal shopping cart are still being developed.
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4 x 6 |
$2.00 |
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5 x 7 |
$5.00 |
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8 x 10 |
$10.00 |
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10 x 14 |
$15.00 |
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11 x 14 |
$20.00 |
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16 x 20 |
$25.00 |
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Please add $5.00 for Shipping & Handling. |
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I can share with you here that when ordering reprints, some cropping will occur in order to fit the image into today's standard sizes as the negatives range in sizes and dimensions, such as the square negatives of the 120 film. Any cropping concerns, such as indicating what object or which person should be the center of the print, should be addressed at the time you submit your order, otherwise, the museum cannot be held responsible if the cropped image does not agree with your expectations. Also, as many of these negatives are over sixty years old, some scratching has occurred. Please be aware that if you see a flaw in the image, it will also appear in the reprint.
Disclaimers: The Port Huron Museum does not claim to be a photography studio. The purpose of this project is to preserve the original negatives by creating digital files, and to share the wealth of this pictorial history with local residents and our broader online community.
Efforts were made to reduce dust and debris. The desire to scan at a high resolution to better reproduction, has, unfortunately at times, made the scanner more susceptible to detecting such debris.
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