Sumner W. Matteson Collection, Milwaukee Public Museum with < 4,000 negatives purchased from the Matteson estate in 1922; Science Museum of Minnesota
Theye 1989: 88 ; Louis B. Casagrange & Phillips Bourns: Side Trips. The Photography of Summer W. Matteson (Milwaukie 1983) ;
Since 1899, S.W.M. was active as "amateur photographer", "traveling correspondent" and photojournalist. From 1898 to 1908, Matteson crisscrossed North America taking photographs, esp. of the American West. Between 1898 and 1901, he photographed the elusive Ute Indians, the cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde, and the life and rites of Pueblo Indians in New Mexico and Arizona. In 1904, Matteson spent four months traveling the length of Cuba. In 1905 and 1906, he was in Montana to photograph the Fourth of July celebrations at the Ft. Belknap Reservation and the ranch life of the Flathead Indians. In 1907, Matteson spent 10 months in Mexico photographing old churches, Peons, ruins, and fiestas. During the Summer of 1908, he toured the Pacific Coast from San Francisco north to Seattle and Vancouver photographing fishermen and loggers. In 1909, Matteson settled in Milwaukee. Further Places of Activity: , Mexico and Cuba.
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