Historical Note
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.
Content Description
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.
All of the images are available online in the
Oregon
Explorer Digital Collection (text/html) of historic photographs.