The Harold Frodsham Photographic Collection: Images of Oregon's Mills

We've seen the natural beauty of the Pacific NW landscape and the view from loggers in the forests, now we turn to the mills to show you pictures from the Harold Frodsham Photographic Collection.

Harold Frodsham was the 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.

The Harold Frodsham Collection includes pictures of Oregon's lumber mills taken by Frodsham on his 1922 tour of the lumber mills in Oregon and northern California. The images include exterior and interior views of the mills.

To read more about the collection, check out the guide to the Harold Frodsham Photograph Collection.

All of the images are available online in the Oregon Explorer Digital Collection of historic photographs.