Lantern slide advertising the Vitagraph film, "The Girl From Beyond," starring Nell Shipman and Alfred Whitman (later known as Gayne Whitman). Lantern slides were widely used in theaters at that time to promote forthcoming films; theaters...
A publicity still of silent film star Nell Shipman. This photo comes from a photo scrapbook (MSS 258) compiled by Gertrude B. Hein, sister of Belle Angstadt, Shipman's good friend at Priest Lake.
A publicity still of silent film star Nell Shipman. This photo comes from a photo scrapbook (MSS 258) compiled by Gertrude B. Hein, sister of Belle Angstadt, Shipman's good friend at Priest Lake.
James Oliver Curwood, with bear skins and dogs, in one of the photos from Nell Shipman's Shipman-Curwood Productions album. Nell Shipman's films "Back to God's Country" and "God's Country and the Woman" were based on Curwood's stories.
Barry Shipman's collie Laddie, presented to him as an Easter present. Laddie had a small part with Nell Shipman in the lost Vitagraph film, "The Wild Strain" (1917) and accompanied the Shipmans to Spokane and Priest River, Idaho, where he lost his...