Beginning in 1983, Ober’s lifelong friend, Ray Anderson, devoted years of his life to the inventory and documentation of Ernest Oberholtzer’s photographs.  Thousands of black and white prints joined 2,000 colored slides, and all were categorized by topic.  The collection is especially unique in the way Ober knew about, traveled to, and captured images of Anishinaabe friends in the Rainy Lake region.  Oberholtzer took photos as documentation of logging damage and the impact of dams, but he also believed in himself as an artist with the camera, and looked for beauty and light. He was well known, even in European circles, for his beautiful and impossibly close-up images of moose in the wild.