Motion picture production & direction; Horses; Packtrains;
A pack train carrying supplies into the mountains for the filming of Nell Shipman's film, "The Girl From God's Country" in the Kings River canyon, California. Co-director Bert Van Tuyle wrote this caption: "Miss Shipman and her company enroute to...
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,...
An advertisment for Shipman's film, "Back to God's Country," from the July 24, 1920, issue of The Moving Picture World. This image was made from a photographic reproduction of the magazine page.
Motion picture production & direction; Motion picture cameras; Motion pictures;
Co-director Bert Van Tuyle, financier W.H. Clune, camerman Jospeh B. Walker, and Nell Shipman's young son Barry, during the filming of "The Girl From God's Country."
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.
Motion picture production & direction; Book jackets;
Cover illustration on the dust jacket of Nell Shipman's novel "Abandoned Trails," published by Lincoln MacVeagh of the Dial Press in 1932. The book is a fictionalized account of Shipman's experiences making films, beginning in the far north of...
Typewriters; Actresses; Motion pictures; Book jackets;
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...
Envelope printed with the return address and logo of Nell Shipman Productions, Inc., the corporate name under which Shipman produced her independent films beginning with "The Girl From God's Country" in 1920. The envelope is addressed to Marie...
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.
