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.
Nell Shipman and her sled dogs Tex and Lady at Coolin, Idaho, the town closest to her movie camp, Lionhead Lodge, on the shores of Priest Lake, Idaho. The two-horse team, hitched to a wagon with runners, was to take Nell and her dogs to the...
Typed letter to Nell Shipman signed by James Oliver Curwood acknowledging her withdrawal from their movie-making partnership. Together they had made "Back to God's Country." Curwood wished her success but called the decision perhaps "the biggest...
Daddy Duffill, a member of Nell Shipman's company at her movie camp, Lionhead Lodge, on the shores of Priest Lake, Idaho. Duffill appeared in Shipman's films "The Trail of the Northwind" and "The Light on Lookout" and helped take care of Shipman's...
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...
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,...
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.
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Nell Shipman's cameraman, Joseph B. Walker. His first feature film work as a cinematographer was on Shipman's "Back to God's Country." He also worked with her on "Trail of the Arrow," "A Bear, A Boy and A Dog," " Something New," "The Girl From...
Cover illustration on the dust jacket of Shipman's fairy tale novel, "Kurly Kew and the Tree-Princess," published by Lincoln MacVeagh of the Dial Press in 1930. The story is based on Shipman's unfinished film, "The Love Tree."
