Anders Beer Wilse Photography: Life of a Young Norwegian Pioneer (1884-1900 in USA)

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Anders Beer Wilse Photography: Life of a Young Norwegian Pioneer En Emigrants Ungdomserindringer Volume 1

Written and photographed by Anders Beer Wilse

Translated into English by Odd-Steinar Dybvad Raneng

Edited by Deb Nelson Gourley and Christian Wilse

Bilingual English Norwegian

Published by Deb Nelson Gourley, Astri My Astri Publishing

  • Autobiographical work and photography
  • Early immigrant life, Minnesota to Washington
  • Mount Wilse named after him in Montana
  • 144 pages, 7" x 10", over 100 Wilse images of Norway and USA
  • Bilingual English Norwegian text in the same book
  • Hardcover and Smyth sewn for highest quality
  • ISBN: 978-0-9859712-2-9
  • © 2015, Printed in U.S.A.

Anders Beer Wilse, 1865-1949, was born in Vest-Agder and raised in Telemark, Norway. Having received his technical degree, Wilse immigrated to America in 1884 and worked as a railroad engineer and cartographer from Minnesota to Washington. He nearly drowned in 1888 on a return visit home to Norway aboard the emigrant ship Geyser, which collided with the Thingvalla and sank. In 1897, Wilse opened a photography business in Seattle. Expeditions in Montana included photographing Grasshopper Glacier, containing billions of entombed locusts, and the discovery of Mount Wilse. The Wilse family returned to Norway in 1900, where Anders became a world-class photographer. Wilse wrote En Emigrants Ungdomserindringer (1936) and Norsk Landskap og Norske Menn (1943). He left behind over 200,000 documented photographs of his life’s work: to study and know Norway and its beauty from behind a camera.