Frank Lackteen Papers

Correspondence

Letter writing

English letters

Cover letters

Invoices

Biographical/Historical note

The Frank Lackteen Papers are a collection of documents, primarily correspondence, related to Frank Lackteen that were discovered in a typewriter case at the Grape Leaf Inn in California.

Frank Lackteen, born in Lebanon in 1897, acted in a variety of American silent and Western films. As a child, he immigrated to the United States and worked at a textile mill in Lawrence, Massachusetts before becoming an actor.

Scope/Content note

The Frank Lackteen Papers include multiple letter drafts, one of which is from Frank Lackteen to George Chandler (then Screen Actors Guild President). Other letters include a draft to the U.S. Department of Labor regarding the Fair Labor Standards Act, a cover letter draft to a writer job posting, and papers related to Fred Woodring and H. Neil Christiansen from 1963-1975.

Grape Leaf Inn, Healdsburg, CA

Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies

1962-1975

Processed by Sarah Bernstein, 2023 . Collection Guide created by Sarah Bernstein, 2023 October.

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English

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