Volume III: Biographies

STAMP, Nettie

Studio employee (1911-1915)

The Joining Room "brigade" showing (left to right): Blanche Bugle, Rose Scott, Hattie McCroskery, Elizabeth Walters, Anna Eagan, Tillie Specht, Nora Riley, Nettie Stamp, and Irene Christie. Seated with the dog is

Mrs. Charles Van Houten. A version of this picture appeared in The Moving Picture News of January 20, 1912. Courtesy of the American Museum of the Moving Image/Lawrence Williams Collection. (M-2-X)

Thanhouser Career Synopsis: Nettie Stamp worked in the film laboratory at the Thanhouser studio.

Biographical Notes: Nettie (Mrs. Edmund J.) Stamp was shown on a set from one of the David Copperfield films (Thanhouser, 1911) as a member of the "joining room brigade," in a photograph published in The Moving Picture News, January 20, 1912. She attended the Thanhouser picnic and outing on September 7, 1912. The New Rochelle Pioneer, December 26, 1914, reported that she and Nora Riley had recently been promoted to the positions of negative cutters.

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