The Sámi Reindeer Expedition at Woodland Park in Seattle (1898) as Witnessed Through the Photographs of Anders Beer Wilse

Abstract: Anders Beer Wilse (1865–1949) was a Norwegian engineer and self-taught photographer who came to America from Norway as a young man, first to Minnesota in 1884 via New York, then to Seattle in 1890. He first found work as a photographer in Washington state with the building of the Great Northern Railway line across Stevens Pass in the Cascade Range. Wilse lived in Seattle between 1892 and 1900. He left a legacy of photographs documenting this period of unprecedented growth and change in Seattle’s history.