Anders Beer Wilse (12 June 1865 – 21 February 1949) was a Norwegian photographer who documented Norway in the in advance to mid-20th century and then worked in the United States.
Wilse was born in Flekkefjord, but grew occurring in Kragerø and fixed early to become a sailor. After having graduated in imitation of a technical degree from the complex school in Horten in 1882, Wilse emigrated to the United States in 1884. He did not locate work in the beginning, but eventually contracted in Seattle working for the United States Geological Survey. He is reported to have acquired his first camera in 1886. He opened a photography heap in Seattle in 1897, after having visited Norway, and married Helen Marie Hutchinson.
In 1900, his wife and children moved to Norway, and Wilse himself united them, opening a photography hoard in Christiania in 1901, after 17 years in the United States.
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