Not content to be a portrait photographer, Harry Shipler developed into one of Utah's earliest news photographers. He supplied photographs to local newspapers, whose artists made line drawings for publication. At one time Harry supplied photographs to five Utah newspapers. One of his most talked about exploits was the documentation of Park City, Utah, a mining community thirty miles east of Salt Lake City, after it burned in 1898. When Harry learned of the fire, he attached his camera to his bicycle and eight hours later arrived in Park City--no small feat since it was all uphill on dirt roads--where he documented the destroyed town. His professional motto was: "I go anywhere to photograph anything."
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