Harry Pidgeon traveled the world extensively during his 86 year life. The UCR/California Museum of Photography is fortunate to posess over 1,500 of his glass plate negatives, some of which include his visits to the Sierra Nevada and the coast redwoods to photograph a thriving lumber industry between 1913 and 1916. These images of steam locomotives, donkey engines and the men in the lumber camps are a distinctive illustration of the part that the railroads played in shaping California.  

Locomotives (12 images)
In the Lumber Camps (16 images)
The People ( 8 images)
Great Train Wrecks ( 7 images)