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Robert "Bert" Sadler, Jr. (October 31, 1875 - 1963) was an American photographer who captured daily life in turn-of-the-century suburban America.

Biography
Sadler was born in 1875 in Laurel, Maryland to pharmacist Robert H. Sadler and his first wife Margaret Miller Jackson McCeney. He attended high school at Eastern High in Washington, D.C. and then began work in the clerical offices of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. In 1909 he began working for the Post Office Department's Postal Savings Division, from which he retired in 1946 as a clerk in the Third Assistant Postmaster General's office. Sadler never married, and spent his entire life living in the house he was born. Later in his life he

In 1905, while still working for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, he acquired an 1897 Eastman Kodak camera and began documenting life in the suburban town of Laurel, then a notable stopping point between Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, Maryland.

In 1968 a portion of Sadler's collection was acquired by the Maryland Historical Society.

Exhibitions

 * Bert Sadler's Laurel, 1997
 * Snapshots in Time: Our Community in 1910 and 2010, 2010
 * Behind the Bricks: 20 Years of the Laurel Museum, 2016