Wilhelm Hester

Wilhelm Hester (1872–1947) was a German-born American photographer and businessman who worked in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska from 1893 to 1906.

Hester was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1872 and moved to the Pacific Northwest in 1893.

While in Alaska, he photographed early scenes of Nome and the surrounding areas.

[1] He returned to the Puget Sound area in 1899 to resume his photographic business there, but appears to have visited Alaska again in 1900.

[2][3] The San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park has 837 items in its collection, mostly 8 x 10 inch glass gelatin dry plates.

Miss Rother, the daughter of the skipper of the 'Dimsdale', got herself photographed by Wilhelm Hester on the West Coast of USA, holding the rudder dressed up as a sailor