While visiting Chicago on a publicity tour, Robert W. Limbert and two police officers inspect their revolvers. Limbert was rumored to have challenged Al Capone and other Chicago gangsters to a gunfight after the 1929 St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
Two Chicago policeman pretend to arrest Robert W. Limbert during a visit to Chicago. During his publicity tour, Limbert worked with the Chicago Police Department to improve their shooting skills.
The existing dock on Redfish Lake juts out from the shore where the main lodge sits. Robert W. Limbert later improved the dock in 1931. The Sawtooth Mountains sit in the background.
The existing dock at Redfish Lake Lodge before Robert W. Limbert improved it in 1928. The photograph is taken from the shore of the lodge, with the Sawtooth Mountains in the background.
Robert W. Limbert's daughters Margaret (left) and Grace (right) show off fish that they caught at Redfish Lake. The man in standing between the children is unidentified.
Robert W. Limbert shoots a revolver in front of a crowd. Limbert wrote a regular column in the magazine Outdoor America on the subject on shooting, and traveled to many cities to show off his skills.
Robert W. Limbert demonstrates his shooting skills for the purpose of illustrating his educational colum on revolver shooting that ran in the magazine Outdoor America from the Izaak Walton League of America.
Portrait artist Charles H. Austin Ayers (1889-1964), Nell Shipman's partner from 1925 until 1934, and father of her two children, the twins Charles Douglas and Daphne Anne.
One of Robert W. Limbert's new additions, photograph shows the boat house almost complete. The boat house was described by Limbert as being "21x27 feet, 11 logs high to the eaves." A sign in the window reads, "Boat house Please Stay Out."
Nell Shipman's California drivers license, issued in 1929, not long after her return to the state. She originally signed it "Nell Shipman Ayers." Many years later she added "Locke," in recognition of her partnership with Amerigo Serrao, who was...
Nell Shipman with her twins, Daphne Anne and Charles Douglas Ayers. They were born in Spain in 1926, scarcely a month after Shipman and Charles Austin Ayers arrived there for a year-and-a-half sojourn.
Nell Shipman (as Faith Diggs) and Alfred Allen (as Mark Leroy) in a scene from "The Grub-Stake." Alfred Allen (1866-1947) appeared in more than 100 films between 1915 and 1929.
