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    • Peter Beemer Music Manuscript

    • Peter Beemer Music Manuscript

    • Fiddle tunes; Folk music; Mining camps;

    • Contents: Varsouvian -- Polka by Mr. Selkirk = Sontag polka -- Schottish from G. Strongberg, Camp Washington Idaho Warrens Diggins -- Polka mazourka -- Schottish -- Waltz N.. 1 by Haug of Murphey's Camp California -- Dixie sett no. III -- Sett N....
    • Alfred Allen and Nell Shipman

    • Alfred Allen and Nell Shipman

    • Motion pictures; Actors; Actresses; Dance halls;

    • Mark Leroy (at left, portrayed by Alfred Allen) introduces Faith Diggs (Nell Shipman) to the dance hall crowd in a scene from "The Grub-Stake." The third actor (right) is unidentified.
    • The Grub-Stake

    • The Grub-Stake

    • Actors; Actresses; Motion pictures; Motion picture production & direction; Motion picture cameras; Ships;

    • Cast and crew of "The Grub-Stake" filming aboard ship. To the right are actors Alfred Allen (portraying Mark Leroy) and Nell Shipman (Faith Diggs). The figure standing above the rest appears to be the film's director Bert Van Tuyle.
    • Wolf's Brush

    • Wolf's Brush

    • Actresses; Motion pictures; Beds; Motion picture cameras; Motion picture production & direction;

    • 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...
    • To Carlos

    • To Carlos

    • Poetry;

    • Poem by Nell Shipman, in her own hand, to painter Charles H. Austin Ayers ("Carlos"). Shipman's reference to "prison days" in the last line probably refers to the bad times during her last months in Idaho (crushing debt, dissolving relationship,...
    • Nell Shipman's animals

    • Nell Shipman's animals

    • Barges; Animals;

    • Nell Shipman's animals on a barge at Coolin, Idaho, in 1922. They arrived in Coolin by truck from Spokane, Washington, where Nell Shipman kept them during the filming of "The Grub-Stake." They were being transported by water to the north end of...
    • Arnold Barham and Barry Shipman

    • Arnold Barham and Barry Shipman

    • Bicycles & tricycles; Uniforms; Dogs; Grandparents;

    • 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...
    • George Berrell

    • George Berrell

    • Actors; Motion pictures;

    • Actor George Berrell, as Pierre Le Mort, in Nell Shipman's film, "The Girl From God's Country." George Berrell (1849-1933) appeared in more than 50 films. According to a profile in the June 25, 1922, issue of the Spokesman-Review (Spokane,...
    • The Grub-Stake

    • The Grub-Stake

    • Actors; Actresses; Motion pictures;

    • Actors George Berrell (as Malamute Mike), Ah Wing (Wong), Walt Whitman (the Skipper), and Nell Shipman (Faith Diggs) in a scene from "The Grub-Stake."
    • W.H. Clune

    • W.H. Clune

    • Motion picture production & direction; Motion pictures; Bears;

    • W.H. Clune (right), the Los Angeles theater owner who was one of the financiers of "The Girl From God's Country," visiting the set with unidentified associates. They are greeting Nell Shipman's bear, Brownie. This was probably at Big Bear,...
    • James Oliver Curwood

    • James Oliver Curwood

    • Bears; Dogs

    • 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.
    • Laddie

    • Laddie

    • Dogs; Collies

    • 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...

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