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...
Four page pamphlet showcasing Robert W. Limbert's illustrated lecture on his explorations of Craters of the Moon before it was named a national monument. It also advertises for "God's Out of Doors" panorama exhibit in Boise, which included colored...
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Edward Rhodenbaugh's daily, sometimes hourly, account of activities during the summer break of 1924. As a teacher at Gooding College, Edward had the summer off. He spent his time traveling throughout Idaho and Easter Oregon, including Craters of...
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...
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...
Nell Shipman on the way to publicity appearances for her film, "The Grub-Stake." Her sled dogs Tex and Lady are in the background; the man with her is not identified. Shipman described the scene in her autobiography, "The Silent Screen & My...
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).
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,...
Illustration on the dust jacket of "Under the Crescent," the novelization of the stories Shipman wrote for the the Universal movie series of the same name. Shipman's first years in Hollywood were spent writing stories and scenarios for the silent...
A publicity still of silent film star Nell Shipman. This photo comes from a photo scrapbook (MSS 258) compiled by Gertrude B. Hein, sister of Belle Angstadt, Shipman's good friend at Priest Lake.
A publicity still of silent film star Nell Shipman. This photo comes from a photo scrapbook (MSS 258) compiled by Gertrude B. Hein, sister of Belle Angstadt, Shipman's good friend at Priest Lake.
Nell Shipman (right) with two 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).
