Adam Kessel Documents

Report of Kessel’s arrest, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Nov. 16, 1895.

Exhibitor advertisement for four Chaplin comedies in the British film trade publication The Bioscope, July 9, 1914.

Excerpt of a 1915 telegram from Charles Baumann to Sennett.

New York Motion Picture Company advertisement in the trade publication Moving Picture World, March 21, 1914, pg. 1557.

New York Motion Picture Corp. trade advertisement, Sep. 29, 1914. From: Reel Life, Sep. 29, 1914

Stock certificate from Kessel-Baumann Picture Corp., featuring pictures of Charles Kessel (left), Baumann (center), and Adam Kessel (right).

Cover of a promotional brochure for Kessel’s Lake Champlain vacation homes. It is unclear if the misspelling of Kessel’s name…

“What Kind of a Fellow Is – Kessel?” Motion Picture News, March 9, 1918, pg 1419-1420.

“Who’s Who in the Film Game,” Motography, Nov. 1, 1913.