Mt. Shasta Camera: The Photographs of Charles R. Miller
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by Wayne Bonnett
Charles Miller's photos, with their rich texture and careful composition, reflect the highest documentary traditions and speak eloquently of a moment in California history. Witness breathtaking photographs of California lumber camps and mill towns, logging railroads, steam locomotives, loggers and their families, and private retreats of the Mt. Shasta area and McCloud River regions.
This book contains over 160 photographs taken between 1900 and 1915, many never before published, in a large-formet, hard cover edition, 9 x 12 inches, with text and index.
Charles Richard Miller, a young scenic photographer from Oregon, came to Northern California around 1900 and settled in the booming lumber camps around the base of Mt. Shasta. Within a few years he became one of the foremost photographers of the region, earning commissions from logging companies to record their activities, camps, and mill towns.
Miller also photographed the private retreats along the McCloud River of wealthy San Franciscans such as William Randolph Hearst and Clarence Waterhouse, and the unique town of McCloud, Siskiyou County, one of California's few remaining intact former "company towns", part of which has been designated as a National Historic District.
Charles Miller's photos, with their rich texture and careful composition, reflect the highest documentary traditions and speak eloquently of a moment in California history. Witness breathtaking photographs of California lumber camps and mill towns, logging railroads, steam locomotives, loggers and their families, and private retreats of the Mt. Shasta area and McCloud River regions.
This book contains over 160 photographs taken between 1900 and 1915, many never before published, in a large-formet, hard cover edition, 9 x 12 inches, with text and index.
Charles Richard Miller, a young scenic photographer from Oregon, came to Northern California around 1900 and settled in the booming lumber camps around the base of Mt. Shasta. Within a few years he became one of the foremost photographers of the region, earning commissions from logging companies to record their activities, camps, and mill towns.
Miller also photographed the private retreats along the McCloud River of wealthy San Franciscans such as William Randolph Hearst and Clarence Waterhouse, and the unique town of McCloud, Siskiyou County, one of California's few remaining intact former "company towns", part of which has been designated as a National Historic District.
