Telegram from Amelia Earhart (in Burbank, California) to Nell Shipman (in Roscoe, California) asking Shipman to phone her. Shipman worked for Earhart's husband, George Palmer Putnam, in New York in 1934 and 1935, developing stories for him when he...
Nell Shipman's father, Arnold Foster Barham, and her son, Barry Shipman, outside their home in Glendale, California, 1918. Barry attended a military academy and is wearing a school uniform. The Shipmans' Glendale home has been moved from its...
Portrait of Nell Shipman and her twin children, Charles Douglas Ayers and Daphne Anne Ayers, painted by Charles H. Austin Ayers, the twins' father, in 1930 while the family was living in Taos, New Mexico, at Mabel Dodge Luhan's artists' retreat. ...
Barry Shipman (1912-1994), Nell and Ernest Shipman's son, about 1930. He became a screenwriter for the movie serials in the 1930s, scripting some of Dick Tracy's and Flash Gordon's most memorable adventures. He later wrote for television,...
Barry Shipman (1912-1994), Nell and Ernest Shipman's son, about 1935. He became a screenwriter for the movie serials in the 1930s, scripting some of Dick Tracy's and Flash Gordon's most memorable adventures. He later wrote for television,...
Members of Nell Shipman's movie company visit with Belle Angstadt and members of her family at Angstadt's Lone Star Ranche on Priest Lake, Idaho. Angstadt and Shipman are seated in front; Shipman's son Barry is crouching at the left. Shipman used...
Cover illustration on the dust jacket of the edition of Shipman's correspondence published by Boise State University in 2003. Edited by Tom Trusky, "Letters from God's Country: Nell Shipman: Selected Correspondence & Writings, 1912-1970" is "an...
Cast and crew of Nell Shipman's film, "The Light on Lookout," at Lookout Mountain, near Priest Lake, Idaho. From left to right: Barry Shipman, Ralph Cochner, Dorothy Winslow (arms crossed), cameraman Bobby Newhard, and Nell Shipman. Barry...
Nell Shipman, her company, and friends celebrate her birthday, October 25, 1920, at the Pine Knot Lodge, Big Bear, California. Nell Shipman is seated at the head of the table with her son Barry standing beside her. She was at Big Bear filming...
Members of Nell Shipman's company at her movie camp, Lionhead Lodge, on the shores of Priest Lake, Idaho. From left to right, standing: Daddy Duffill, Dorothy Winslow, Bert Van Tuyle, Nell Shipman, Bobby Newhard, and Ralph Cochner. In the...
Co-director Bert Van Tuyle, financier W.H. Clune, camerman Jospeh B. Walker, and Nell Shipman's young son Barry, during the filming of "The Girl From God's Country."
Illustration on the dust jacket of "Under the Crescent," the novelization of the stories Shipman wrote for the the Universal movie series of the same name. Shipman's first years in Hollywood were spent writing stories and scenarios for the silent...
Nell Shipman's friend and confidante, Belle Angstadt (in bed), in the center of the scene during the filming of Shipman's lost film "Wolf's Brush," at Angstadt's Lone Star Ranch, on the shores of Priest Lake, Idaho. At the far left Lloyd Peters...
Nell Shipman, her son Barry, and actor Otto Lederer pose for a World War I fundraising appeal. Lederer appeared with Shipman in the films "The Wild Strain" and "Cavanaugh of the Forest Rangers," both released in 1918. Shipman also spoke at...
