Harold Frodsham Photographs, 1921-1922

Title: Harold Frodsham Photographs, 1921-1922

ID: P 271

Primary Creator: Frodsham, Harold

Extent: 0.03 cubic feet. More info below.

Languages of Materials: English [eng]

The Harold Frodsham Photographs consist of images of lumber mills in Oregon taken by Frodsham in 1922 during a tour of lumber mills in Oregon and northern California. The images include exterior and interior views. Frodsham was employed by the Red River Lumber Company in Westwood, California in the 1920s and 1930s.

Images from this collection have been digitized and are available in Oregon Digital.

The Harold Frodsham Photographs consist of 19 images taken by Frodsham of the interiors and exteriors of lumber mills in Oregon during a tour of mills in Oregon and northern California. The prints are 3.5 x 5.5 inches and are annotated with detailed descriptions. There are duplicate prints for two of the images. The collection includes images of the Booth-Kelly Lumber Company (Springfield), Brooks-Scanlon Lumber Company (Bend), Pelican Bay Lumber Company (Klamath Falls), Shevlin-Hixon Company (Bend), and Silverton Lumber Company (Silverton). The photographs depict hauling equipment, stackers, and conveyors. The collection also includes one image of Brooks-Scanlon Lumber Company Camp 1 in central Oregon where Ponderosa pine is being logged.

An addition to the Frodsham Photographic Collection (Accession 2011:013) is made up of 21 images taken by Frodsham of operations at the Red River Lumber Company (Westwood, California) and the Hutchinson Logging Camp (Oroville, California). Most of the photographs in this transfer document the construction of a power plant along the Feather River for the Red River Company.

Images from this collection have been digitized and are available in Oregon Digital.

Harold Frodsham was general manager of the commercial and mercantile departments of the Red River Lumber Company in Westwood, California, from the mid-1920s until 1934, when his position was eliminated. Frodsham, from England, died in Susanville, California in 1958; he had lived in Westwood and Susanville since the early 1920s.

The Red River Lumber Company was organized in 1883 in Minnesota and began acquiring northeastern California timberland in 1894. The Company began construction of Westwood, its company town in southwestern Lassen County, California, in 1912; the lumber mill at Westwood was essentially completed by 1918 and operated until the mid-1950s.

More Extent Information: 42 photographs; 1 box

Statement on Access: Collection is open for research.

Acquisition Note: The collection was donated to the Archives by Carole Steele in 2008.

Related Materials: The OSU Special Collections and Archives Research Center includes numerous visual images of lumbering operations and sawmills in Oregon, especially in the Gerald W. Williams Collection (MSS WilliamsG) and the College of Forestry Photograph Collection (P 061). The Red River Lumber Company Records are part of the T.B. Walker and Family Papers at the Minnesota Historical Society and include materials documenting Frodsham's role as a general manager in Westwood, California.

Preferred Citation: Harold Frodsham Photographs (P 271), Oregon State University Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Corvallis, Oregon.

Frodsham, Harold

Booth-Kelly Lumber Company
Brooks-Scanlon Lumber Company
Frodsham, Harold
Lumbering--Machinery--Oregon.
Lumbering--Oregon.
Natural Resources
Pelican Bay Lumber Company (Klamath Falls, Or.)
Sawmills--Oregon.
Shevlin-Hixon Company

Photographic prints.