Born: 1867 - US, Iowa Died: 1920, 26 October - Mexico: Mexico City Gender: Male Active: US / Cuba / Mexico
American photographer who took photographs to document his extensive cycle trips, research trips and travels. His photographs were published in numerous magazines including The Cosmopolitan, New York Herald, Leslie's Weekly, Overland Monthly, The Pacific Monthly, Sunset and other U.S. magazines.
Louis B. Casagrande & Phillips Bourns "Side Trips: The Photography of Sumner W. Matteson 1898-1908" (Milwaukee Public Museum and the Science Museum of Minnesota, Milwaukee, 1983)
Sumner W. Matteson
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