Frank Lackteen Papers 1963-1975

Materials in this collection are in English.

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.

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.

This collection is arranged in the order it was received.

The Khayrallah Center claims only physical ownership of the materials. Due to the nature of archival collections, information about copyright and rights ownership in the materials may be difficult to find despite reasonable efforts. Nonexclusive right to authorize uses of these materials for non-commercial research, scholarly, or other educational purposes are granted to Khayrallah Center pursuant to U.S. Copyright Law. Usage of the materials for these purposes must be fully credited with the source. The user assumes full responsibility for any use of the materials.

[Identification of item], Frank Lackteen Papers, KC 0051, Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies Archive, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

Gift of Grape Leaf Inn, Healdsburg, CA, 2020 November (Accession No. 2020.007).

Processed by Sarah Bernstein, 2023. Finding aid created by Sarah Bernstein, 2023 October.