Photography
Pidgeon's photographs are highly valued for their ethnographic significance. He left over 1,500 negatives of his trips with the Mohle family (Commander Robert Mohle of Manhattan Beach, CA). These are now in the collection of the California Museum of Photography at the University of California, Riverside.
There is also a collection of his work from the Sierras, documenting the everyday life in the logging community, at the California State University, Fresno.
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