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oip_mss251.xml Guide to the Janet Davis and Larry Townsend Collection on Nell Shipman 1916-2000 Davis, Janet and Townsend, Larry Collection on Nell Shipman

Boise State University Library, Special Collections and Archives

1910 University Drive Boise, Idaho 83725-1430 Boise, ID, 83725 208-426-3958 archives@boisestate.edu

This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2013-08-20 Finding aid written in English. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard). Janet Davis and Larry Townsend Collection on Nell Shipman MSS 251 Boise State University Library, Special Collections and Archives

1910 University Drive Boise, Idaho 83725-1430 Boise, ID, 83725 208-426-3958 archives@boisestate.edu

Collection materials are in English. 1 0.25 linear feet 1 box 1986-2000 1916-2000 Memorabilia,artifacts, printed material, and other items collected both jointly and individually by Janet Davis, of Kennewick, Washington, and Larry Townsend, of Rosalia, Washington, relating to silent film star and filmmaker Nell Shipman; together with their research notes and correspondence. Davis, Janet Townsend, Larry, 1947-2009

Gifts of Janet Davis and the estate of Larry Townsend, 2008-2009.

Clippings documenting the revival of interest in the 1980s and 1990s in silent filmmaker Nell Shipman (1892-1970), who made some of her films at Priest Lake, Idaho, 1922-1924; together with Townsend's correspondence with other park officials and researchers about Shipman's years at Priest Lake and the park's screening of her films. Includes a few early clippings (1916-1918) about Nell Shipman.

Biographical Note

Laurence G. Townsend was a park manager at Priest Lake State Park in Idaho and a resident of Rosalia, Washington.