Cast and crew of Nell Shipman's film "Something New." From left to right: Cliff Maupin, cinematographer Joseph B. Walker, Bert Van Tuyle (putting on make-up at the mirror), and Nell Shipman (revising the script) with her dog Laddie.
Co-directors Nell Shipman and Bert Van Tuyle on horseback during the filming of "The Girl From God's Country." Also on horseback is Edward Burns, and in the foreground is Nell Shipman's dog Laddie.
Cover illustration on Nell Shipman's autobiography, "The Silent Screen & My Talking Heart," published posthumously by Boise State University in 1987, with second and third editions in 1988 and 2001. Shipman wrote the autobiography in the late...
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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...
Dancer and actress Beulah McDonald Shipman (1909-2005), wife of Barry Shipman. Acting under the name Gwynne Shipman in the 1930s, she appeared as the female lead in motion pictures opposite Tom Keene and William Boyd (Hopalong Cassidy).
Filming a scene in "The Grub-Stake." Actors Nell Shipman (as Faith Diggs) and Hugh Thompson (as Jeb, her romantic interest) are at center, in the scene.
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.
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...
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...
Nell Shipman (as Dreena) and Ralph Cochner (as Jim, the lumberjack), in a scene from The Light on Lookout, one of the short films Nell Shipman made at Lionhead Lodge on Priest Lake, Idaho.
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.
Nell Shipman (as Faith Diggs) in a scene from "The Grub-Stake." Director Bert Van Tuyle captioned this photo: "Dawn brings to Faith the determination to seek the one way out."
Nell Shipman (center) with other actors in a scene from one of the early silent films in which she appeared, possbily one of the films from Vitagraph's Wolfville series (1918).
