Ruth Faison Shaw Papers, 1908-1968

Collection Number: 03835

Collection Title: Ruth Faison Shaw Papers, 1908-1968

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Size	About 11,300 items (24.0 linear feet).
Abstract	Ruth Faison Shaw was an artist, teacher, and art therapist who lived in North Carolina, New York, and Rome, finally settling in Chapel Hill, N.C. She was a proponent of using finger painting in education and therapy work. The collection contains personal and professional correspondence, writings, subject files, photographs, materials related to the use of art therapy for disturbed children and military veterans, original art work including nine finger paintings attributed to Shaw, and other items. Most of the correspondence dates after 1940. Many of the letters were written by friends and relatives to Shaw, but there are several letters she wrote. Letters discuss activities of friends and family, art and art therapy, theater, and various business activities and also contain references to finger painting as therapy in the rehabilitation of World War II soldiers. Also included are Shaw and Faison family history materials, financial and legal documents dating from 1919 to 1968, articles and other writings by or about Shaw or her areas of interest, printed materials, and clippings. Subject files compiled by Shaw reflect her interests especially finger painting, hospitals, and psychiatric treatment. Photographs depict Shaw family members, Shaw demonstrating fingerpainting techniques, and Shaw's finger paintings. Photograph albums document Shaw's travels in France and the Middle East immediately after World War I and her years spent in Rome and in New York.
Creator	Shaw, Ruth Faison, 1887-1969.
Curatorial Unit	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language	English

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Restrictions to Access: Items with protected health information in folder 206 are closed until 2036.; Use of audio or moving image materials may require production of listening or viewing copies.

Copyright Notice: Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation: [Identification of item], in the Ruth Faison Shaw Papers, #3835, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information: Received from the estate of Ruth Faison Shaw in May 1972.; Additions received in July 1982, August 1992 (Acc. 92129), November 1993 (Acc. 93168), and November 2016 (Acc. 102688).

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Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Martin Gengenbach, February 2012; Nancy Kaiser, June 2015; Laura Hart, January 2017; Anne Wells, May 2021

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Expand/collapse Biographical Information

Ruth Faison Shaw was born in 1887 near Wilmington, N.C. She worked as a school teacher in North Carolina before World War I, but in 1918 she traveled to France to travel and support the war effort in a volunteer position through the Young Men's Christian Association. After a brief return to North Carolina, Shaw went back to Europe in 1920 and worked as a teacher for British and American children in Rome. During this time, she published several books: Offerings and Offsprings, The Old Shoe, and The Second Old Shoe. She also developed her interest in finger-painting. In 1932, Shaw left Rome to teach finger painting at the Mac Jennet School in Paris. Soon after, she moved to New York, where she opened the Shaw Finger Paint Studio and published two more books: Finger Painting and Finger Painting and How I Do It. She retired in 1959 and moved to Chapel Hill, N.C., where she conducted research on the use of finger painting in psychiatric therapy at the Department of Psychiatry at North Carolina Memorial Hospital. Ruth Faison Shaw died on 3 December 1969.

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The collection contains personal and professional correspondence, writings, subject files, photographs, materials related to the use of art therapy for disturbed children and military veterans, original art work including nine finger paintings attributed to Shaw, and other items. Most of the correspondence dates after 1940. Many of the letters were written by friends and relatives to Shaw, but there are several letters she wrote. Letters discuss activities of friends and family, art and art therapy, theater, and various business activities and also contain references to finger painting as therapy in the rehabilitation of World War II soldiers. Also included are Shaw and Faison family history materials, financial and legal documents dating from 1919 to 1968, articles and other writings by or about Shaw or her areas of interest, printed materials, and clippings. Subject files compiled by Shaw reflect her interests especially finger painting, hospitals, and psychiatric treatment. Photographs depict Shaw family members, Shaw demonstrating fingerpainting techniques, and Shaw's finger paintings. Photograph albums document Shaw's travels in France and the Middle East immediately after World War I and her years spent in Rome and in New York.

Note that because the original order as received has, for the most part, been retained, there is some subject and form of materials overlap among the series.

Contents list

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1. Correspondence, 1908-1968 and undated.
2. Legal and Financial Materials, 1919-1968 and undated.
3. Subject files, 1908-1968.
4. Writings, 1908-1968.
5. Other Papers, 1913-1968.
6. Clippings, 1908-1968.
7. Printed Materials, 1908-1968.
8. Volumes, 1908-1968.
9. Artwork, Certificates, and Exhibition Scrapbooks, 1908-1968.
9A. Artwork, circa 1960s (Addition of November 2016 (Acc. 102688)).
10. Photographs and Photograph Albums, 1918-1968.
11. Audio Recordings, 1976 and undated.
Additions, circa 1920s-1940s.

Expand/collapse Series 1. Correspondence, 1908-1968 and undated.

Arrangement: Chronological.

Folder 1	Correspondence, 1908-1910
Folder 2	Correspondence, 1911
Folder 3	Correspondence, 1913
Folder 4	Correspondence, 1914
Folder 5	Correspondence, 1915
Folder 6	Correspondence, 1916
Folder 7	Correspondence, 1917
Folder 8	Correspondence, January-August 1918
Folder 9	Correspondence, September-December 1918
Folder 10	Correspondence, January-March 1919
Folder 11	Correspondence, April-June 1919
Folder 12	Correspondence, July-October 1919
Folder 13	Correspondence, November-December 1919
Folder 14	Correspondence, January-June 1920
Folder 15	Correspondence, July-August 1920
Folder 16	Correspondence, September-October 1920
Folder 17	Correspondence, November-December 1920
Folder 18	Correspondence, 1921
Folder 19	Correspondence, 1922
Folder 20	Correspondence, 1923
Folder 21	Correspondence, 1924
Folder 22	Correspondence, 1925
Folder 23	Correspondence, 1926
Folder 24	Correspondence, 1927
Folder 25	Correspondence, 1928
Folder 26	Correspondence, January-July 1929
Folder 27	Correspondence, August-December 1929
Folder 28	Correspondence, 1930
Folder 29	Correspondence, 1931
Folder 30	Correspondence, January-August 1932
Folder 31	Correspondence, September 1932
Folder 32	Correspondence, October-November 1932
Folder 33	Correspondence, December 1932
Folder 34	Correspondence, January 1933
Folder 35	Correspondence, February 1933
Folder 36	Correspondence, March-5 April 1933
Folder 37	Correspondence, 6-14 April 1933
Folder 38	Correspondence, 15-30 April 1933
Folder 39	Correspondence, 1-12 May 1933
Folder 40	Correspondence, 13-31 May 1933
Folder 41	Correspondence, June 1933
Folder 42	Correspondence, July-September 1933
Folder 43	Correspondence, October-November 1933
Folder 44	Correspondence, December 1933
Folder 45	Correspondence, January 1934
Folder 46	Correspondence, February 1934
Folder 47	Correspondence, 1-22 March 1934
Folder 48	Correspondence, 23 March-April 1934
Folder 49	Correspondence, May 1934
Folder 50	Correspondence, June-July 1934
Folder 51	Correspondence, August-September 1934
Folder 52	Correspondence, October-December 1934
Folder 53	Correspondence, January-March 1935
Folder 54	Correspondence, April-May 1935
Folder 55	Correspondence, June-July 1935
Folder 56	Correspondence, August-September 1935
Folder 57	Correspondence, January-July 1936
Folder 58	Correspondence, August 1936
Folder 59	Correspondence, September-December 1936
Folder 60	Correspondence, January-September 1937
Folder 61	Correspondence, October-December 1937
Folder 62	Correspondence, January-March 1938
Folder 63	Correspondence, April-June 1938
Folder 64	Correspondence, August-December 1938
Folder 65	Correspondence, January-February 1939
Folder 66	Correspondence, March-June 1939
Folder 67	Correspondence, July-December 1939
Folder 68	Correspondence, January-March 1940
Folder 69	Correspondence, April-May 1940
Folder 70	Correspondence, June-December 1940
Folder 71	Correspondence, January-August 1941
Folder 72	Correspondence, September-December 1941
Folder 73	Correspondence, January-July 1942
Folder 74	Correspondence, August-December 1942
Folder 75	Correspondence, 1943
Folder 76	Correspondence, 1944
Folder 77	Correspondence, January-April 1945
Folder 78	Correspondence, May-June 1945
Folder 79	Correspondence, July-August 1945
Folder 80	Correspondence, September-December 1945
Folder 81	Correspondence, January-March 1946
Folder 82	Correspondence, April 1946
Folder 83	Correspondence, May-December 1946
Folder 84	Correspondence, January-September 1947
Folder 85	Correspondence, October-December 1947
Folder 86	Correspondence, January-July 1948
Folder 87	Correspondence, August-December 1948
Folder 88	Correspondence, 1949
Folder 89	Correspondence, 1950
Folder 90	Correspondence, 1951
Folder 91	Correspondence, January-May 1952
Folder 92	Correspondence, June-December 1952
Folder 93	Correspondence, 1953
Folder 94	Correspondence, January-March 1954
Folder 95	Correspondence, April-December 1954
Folder 96	Correspondence, January-August 1955
Folder 97	Correspondence, September-December 1955
Folder 98	Correspondence, January-June 1956
Folder 99	Correspondence, July-December 1956
Folder 100	Correspondence and postcards, May 1956
Folder 101	Correspondence, 1957
Folder 102	Correspondence, January-August 1958
Folder 103	Correspondence, September-December 1958
Folder 104	Correspondence, January-June 1959
Folder 105	Correspondence, July-November 1959
Folder 106	Correspondence, December 1959
Folder 107	Correspondence, January-April 1960
Folder 108	Correspondence, May-July 1960
Folder 109	Correspondence, August-December 1960
Folder 110	Correspondence, January-July 1961
Folder 111	Correspondence, August-December 1961
Folder 112	Correspondence, January-March 1962
Folder 113	Correspondence, April-September 1962
Folder 114	Correspondence, October-December 1962
Folder 115	Correspondence, January-September 1963
Folder 116	Correspondence, October-December 1963
Folder 117	Correspondence, January-April 1964
Folder 118	Correspondence, May-December 1964
Folder 119	Correspondence, January-September 1965
Folder 120	Correspondence, October-December 1965
Folder 121	Correspondence, January-August 1966
Folder 122	Correspondence, September-October 1966
Folder 123	Correspondence, November-December 1966
Folder 124	Correspondence, January-March 1967
Folder 125	Correspondence, April-August 1967
Folder 126	Correspondence, September-December 1967
Folder 127	Correspondence, 1968
Folder 128	Correspondence, undated 1910-1919
Folder 129	Correspondence, undated 1910s-1920s
Folder 130	Correspondence, undated 1920s
Folder 131	Correspondence, undated 1920s-1930s
Folder 132	Correspondence, undated 1930s
Folder 133	Correspondence, undated 1930s-1940s
Folder 134	Correspondence, undated 1940s
Folder 135	Correspondence, undated 1940s-1950s
Folder 136	Correspondence, undated 1950s
Folder 137	Correspondence, undated 1950s-1960s
Folder 138	Correspondence, undated 1960s
Folder 139-142 Folder 139 Folder 140 Folder 141 Folder 142	Correspondence, undated

Expand/collapse Series 2. Legal and Financial Materials, 1919-1968 and undated.

Arrangement: Chronological.

Folder 143	Legal and financial materials, 1919
Folder 144	Legal and financial materials, 1920
Folder 145	Legal and financial materials, 1925
Folder 146	Legal and financial materials, 1926
Folder 147	Legal and financial materials, 1927
Folder 148	Legal and financial materials, 1928
Folder 149	Legal and financial materials, 1929
Folder 150	Legal and financial materials, 1930
Folder 151	Legal and financial materials, 1931
Folder 152	Legal and financial materials, 1932
Folder 153	Legal and financial materials, 1933
Folder 154	Legal and financial materials, 1933
Folder 155	Legal and financial materials, 1934
Folder 156	Legal and financial materials, 1935
Folder 157	Legal and financial materials, 1936
Folder 158	Legal and financial materials, 1937
Folder 159	Legal and financial materials, 1938
Folder 160	Legal and financial materials, 1939
Folder 161	Legal and financial materials, 1930s
Folder 162	Legal and financial materials, 1940
Folder 163	Legal and financial materials, 1941
Folder 164	Legal and financial materials, 1942
Folder 165	Legal and financial materials, 1943
Folder 166	Legal and financial materials, 1944
Folder 167	Legal and financial materials, 1945
Folder 168	Legal and financial materials, 1946
Folder 169	Legal and financial materials, 1947
Folder 170	Legal and financial materials, 1948
Folder 171	Legal and financial materials, 1949
Folder 172	Legal and financial materials, 1950
Folder 173	Legal and financial materials, 1951
Folder 174	Legal and financial materials, 1952
Folder 175	Legal and financial materials, 1953
Folder 176	Legal and financial materials, 1954
Folder 177	Legal and financial materials, 1955
Folder 178	Legal and financial materials, 1956
Folder 179	Legal and financial materials, 1957
Folder 180	Legal and financial materials, 1958
Folder 181	Legal and financial materials, 1959
Folder 182	Legal and financial materials, 1961
Folder 183	Legal and financial materials, 1964
Folder 184	Legal and financial materials, 1968
Folder 185-187 Folder 185 Folder 186 Folder 187	Legal and financial materials, undated

Expand/collapse Series 3. Subject files, 1908-1968.

Arrangement: Arrangement is roughly alphabetical. Folder titles and arrangement as received have largely been retained.

Items with protected health information in folder 206 are closed until 2036.

Folder 188	Biographical and interviews
Folder 189	Bibliographies
Folder 190	Speeches
Folder 191	Radio and television scripts
Folder 192	Britannica Junior
Folder 193	T. Eaton Company
Folder 194	Shaw studio re-organization
Folder 195	Rockefeller Center
Folder 196	House of Little Books
Folder 197-198 Folder 197 Folder 198	Binney and Smith Company, 1953
Folder 199	Winter hospital, 1946-1947
Folder 200	Unfinished business
Folder 201	Exhibits
Folder 202	Charlie H. Moore
Folder 203	Invitations, etc.
Folder 204-205 Folder 204 Folder 205	Finger painting letters
Folder 206-209 Folder 206 Folder 207 Folder 208 Folder 209	Case studies: Index of criteria Items with protected health information in folder 206 are closed until 2036. Includes some example paintings.
Folder 210	Case studies: Primal Scene
Folder 211	Case studies: (A-O)
Folder 212	Case studies: (P-U)
Folder 213-216 Folder 213 Folder 214 Folder 215 Folder 216	Case studies: Children's stories
Folder 217-220 Folder 217 Folder 218 Folder 219 Folder 220	Case studies: Write-ups
Folder 221	Finger painting information
Folder 222-224 Folder 222 Folder 223 Folder 224	Exhibitions, programs, and reciepts
Folder 225	Instruction: Pamphlets
Folder 226	Exhibitions, 1941
Folder 227	Phillips studio
Folder 228	Wainwright Evans stories
Folder 229	American listings
Folder 230	Lellyn Robinson
Folder 231	Societies
Folder 232	Psychiatrist
Folder 233	Duke and other hospitals
Folder 234	Karl Menninger
Folder 235	Peggy Pedigne
Folder 236	Goodell
Folder 237	Charles Cristoph
Folder 238	Norman Houk
Folder 239	Notes of school
Folder 240-241 Folder 240 Folder 241	Genealogy
Folder 242	Binney and Smith
Folder 243	Menninger Foundation
Folder 244-246 Folder 244 Folder 245 Folder 246	Exhibit: 30 North Carolina Painters, 1956
Folder 247-256 Folder 247 Folder 248 Folder 249 Folder 250 Folder 251 Folder 252 Folder 253 Folder 254 Folder 255 Folder 256	Finger painting classes
Folder 257	Letters
Folder 258	John Ford Reed and unidentified

Expand/collapse Series 4. Writings, 1908-1968.

Arrangement: Items written by Ruth Faison Shaw are followed by writings by others. Folder titles and arrangement as received have largely been retained.

Folder 259	Shaw: Poems
Folder 260	Shaw: Advertising
Folder 261	Shaw: Britannica Junior: Finger painting
Folder 262	Shaw: Child emergency training
Folder 263-266 Folder 263 Folder 264 Folder 265 Folder 266	Shaw: Creation of Toys
Folder 267	Shaw: Dear Signor Electric Man
Folder 268	Shaw: Dobbin and Daisy
Folder 269	Shaw: Experiences of a Teacher
Folder 270	Shaw: My Experiences with the Young
Folder 271-274 Folder 271 Folder 272 Folder 273 Folder 274	Shaw: Fingerpainting
Folder 274	Shaw: The Gentleman and the Tiger
Folder 275	Shaw: Just a Little Man
Folder 276	Shaw: Learning by Living
Folder 277	Shaw: The Little Coach House
Folder 278	Shaw: The Long, Long Thoughts of Youth
Folder 279	Shaw: Mental Hygiene of the Classroom
Folder 280-283 Folder 280 Folder 281 Folder 282 Folder 283	Shaw: Notes
Folder 284	Shaw: Out of the Mouths of Babes
Folder 285	Shaw: Response of Retrospect
Folder 286-287 Folder 286 Folder 287	Shaw: Shaw School in New York, N.Y.
Folder 288	Shaw: The Story of Jeffrey
Folder 289	Shaw: Three Charlies Chinese
Folder 290	Shaw: Unidentified
Folder 291	John T. Payne: The Shaw Finger-Paiting System I: An Overview
Folder 292	Gladys Telfer interview
Folder 293	Olga Gonther: Why Finger Paints?
Folder 294	Irene Obrock: The Therapeutic Value of Finger Painting
Folder 295	Josephine Durrell: Finger Painting is Fun
Folder 296	Anne Smith: Report on the Development of Play at the Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL
Folder 297	L. Rosenzweig and L. Durbin: Fingerpainting as as Investigative Approach to Therapeutic Techniques
Folder 298	Frances Floore: Grant for Finger Painting Study
Folder 299	Claude Cameron: Summer Hill, Reminiscences of the Civil War
Folder 300	Lehman and Risquez: The Use of Fingerpainting in the Clinical Evaluation of Psychotic Conditions
Folder 301	Janet H. Cairns: Finger Painting at Perkin Institute
Folder 302	James Milligan: An Experiment in Creativity
Folder 303	Remarks of W.C. Menninger
Folder 304	Charles Smith: The Role of Mental Hygiene in Corrections
Folder 305	Synopsis of the Ruth Faison Shaw Television Show
Folder 306	The Basic Conference
Folder 307	Ruth Faison Shaw Finger Painting Demonstration
Folder 308	Massachusetts Association for Occupational Therapy
Folder 309	Theodore Benedek: The Brotherhood of Man; What Price is Civilization?
Folder 310	William Russell: A Desirable Program for Federal Particpation in Education
Folder 311	The Goal of Education
Folder 312	Alfred Korzybski: An Outline of General Semantics
Folder 313	Andrue Berding: Out of the Mouths of Children
Folder 314	Claud Wilson: An Ascent of Mount Etna
Folder 315	Elizabeth Marty: A Little Orphan; Mrs. Black's Revenge
Folder 316	Coloquial Books of Burridge Necessary for the Student of General Semantics
Folder 317	Philip Lemont: Finger Painting
Folder 318	Edith Campbell
Folder 319	Finger-Painting
Folder 320	Bertina Bowen: Streamline Talkie Toys, The Mechanics of Speech Making
Folder 321	Robert Hager: Muckleshoot Stomp
Folder 322	A Talk of Basic English to Teachers and Learners of Normal English
Folder 323	Finger Painting
Folder 324	Philip Lemont: Finger Painting
Folder 325	Andrea Perkins: Suggestions for Arts and Crafts
Folder 326	Robert Godsoe: Ruth Faison Shaw: A Unique Talent
Folder 327	Miscellaneous
Folder 328	Why Santa Claus Chose the Reindeer
Folder 329	Cannon, Blair: Finger-Painting Course
Folder 330	SKF Psychiatrist Reporter
Folder 331	Ruth Faison Shaw: Teacher, Creator, Finger-Painting
Folder 332	Evelyn Shaw: Discover Yourself Through Finger Painting with Ruth Faison Shaw (television program idea)
Folder 333	Marietta Ingerson
Folder 334	Velma R. Riesbol: Modern Mud Pies
Folder 335	Mary Margaret Wilson: Fingers Come First in Modern Mud Pies
Folder 336	The Talented Student
Folder 337	Faye Webster: Voices From Within
Folder 338	Nikel: Demonstrations in Guidance Library
Folder 339	The Shaw Fingerpaints
Folder 340	Sara Joyner: Finger Painting as an Aid to the Development of Creative Expression in Art and Literature
Folder 341	Veaux Smith: Visit with Ruth Faison Shaw (television program)
Folder 342	Space for the Time, Place, and Other Details
Folder 343	Primary Propositions
Folder 344	Fingerpainting, A New Medium for Education and Psychological Study (outline)
Folder 345	Study on finger painting
Folder 346	Unidentified

Expand/collapse Series 5. Other Papers, 1913-1968.

Arrangement: Arrangement as received has largely been maintained.

Travel papers and government documents from Shaw's time in Rome, Italy; genealogical information about the Faison and Shaw families in North Carolina during the Civil War; documents related to various art exhibitions in which Shaw took part; finger-painted works likely produced by Shaw; information related to her Chapel Hill, N.C., home; and other materials.

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Other papers, 1913-1968

Expand/collapse Series 6. Clippings, 1908-1968.

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Clippings

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Printed materials

Expand/collapse Series 8. Volumes, 1908-1968.

Books of financial information kept by Ruth Faison Shaw during her time abroad and in New York, as well as address books, calendars, and books of notes and writings. There are also several published works by Shaw, including compilations of stories collected during her time abroad and others on her work with finger painting.

Folder 455	Volume 1: Address book, circa 1920s Contains several addresses, and French phrases and pronunciation notes.
Folder 456	Volume 2: Address book and calendar, 1929 Kept while Ruth Faison Shaw was in Rome; includes very brief descriptions of daily events in calendar pages.
Folder 457	Volume 3: Sketchbook, undated
Folder 458	Volume 4: Address book, 1939-1941
Folder 459	Volume 5: Samuel Stillman, Thoughts on the French Revolution, 1795
Folder 460	Volume 6: Address book, 1935-1936
Folder 461	Volume 7: Address book, 1956
Folder 462	Volume 8: Notebook, 1936 Notes on a lecture by Count Alfred Korszybski on general semiotics that Shaw attended in July 1936.
Folder 463	Volume 9: Notebook and calendar, circa 1936-1937
Folder 464	Volume 10: Notebook, circa 1930s
Folder 465	Volume 11: Engagement book, 1945 The cover of this engagement book was finger painted by Ruth Faison Shaw.
Folder 466	Volume 12: Library book index, undated Appears to contain listings for books in shelved order. Includes authors, titles, and publication dates, notes, and an assigned number.
Folder 467	Volume 13: Engagement book, 1946 The cover of this engagement book was finger painted by Ruth Faison Shaw.
Folder 468	Volume 14: Volume of articles, undated
Folder 469	Volume 15: Journal and recipe book, undated
Folder 470	Volume 16: Check book, 1936-1937
Folder 471	Volume 17: Checkbook, 1933-1936
Folder 472	Volume 18: Calendar and planner, 1935
Folder 473	Volume 19: Finger Painting: A Perfect Medium for Self Expression by Ruth Faison Shaw, 1938
Folder 474	Volume 20: Thomas I. Faison Portrait Fund account book, 1944-1945
Folder 475	Volume 21: Ruth Faison Shaw personal account book, undated
Folder 476	Volume 22: Account book, 1932-1933
Folder 477	Volume 23: Offerings of Offsprings, circa 1930s
Folder 478	Volume 24: The Old Shoe: being the second year-book of the children of the Shaw School, 1928-1930
Folder 479	Volume 25: The Old Shoe: being the first year-book of the children of the Shaw School, 1927-1928
Folder 480	Volume 26: Finger Painting by Ruth Faison Shaw, 1933
Folder 481	Volume 27: Finger Painting and How I Do It by Ruth Faison Shaw, 1947 There are multiple copies of this item.
Folder 482	Volume 28: My Stories and Pictures draft, by Ruth Faison Shaw, undated
Folder 483	Volume 29: Mac Jannet Trocadero school book, 1952
Folder 484	Volume 30: My Stories and Pictures draft, by Ruth Faison Shaw, undated
Folder 485	Volume 31: Anatomy for painting notes, undated
Folder 486	Volume 32: Miscellaneous notes and writings, undated

Expand/collapse Series 9. Artwork, Certificates, and Exhibition Scrapbooks, 1908-1968.

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Artwork and certificates, 1908-1968

Folder 492 not used.

Includes miscellaneous papers and certificates and several finger-paintings created by Shaw.

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Certificates

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Exhibition scrapbooks, 1936, 1964

Scrapbook pages with clippings, photographs, and other materials related to two exhibitions: Young America Paints, held at Radio City Music Hall in 1936; exhibition in February 1964 to celebrate the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Founders' Day and North Carolina Tercentenary.

Expand/collapse Series 9A. Artwork, circa 1960s (Addition of November 2016 (Acc. 102688)).

About 70 items

Original art work, chiefly finger paintings. Nine of the finger paintings are attributed to Ruth Faison Shaw. Most are unattributed. Included are illustrations, some of which appear to have been created for children's books.

Oversize Paper Folder OPF-3835/2	Finger Paintings by Ruth Faison Shaw 2 items "Moonlight" and "Moon" are the titles of these paintings.
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-3835/3	Finger Paintings by Ruth Faison Shaw 2 items
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-3835/4	Finger Paintings 4 items Two of the paintings are attributed to Ruth Faison Shaw.
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-3835/5	Finger Paintings 6 items One of the paintings is attributed to Ruth Faison Shaw.
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-3835/6	Finger Paintings 6 items
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-3835/7	Finger Paintings 4 items
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-3835/8	Finger Paintings 6 items
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-3835/9	Finger Paintings 9 items
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-3835/10	Finger Paintings 6 items
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-3835/11	Finger Paintings 2 items
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-3835/12	Illustrations 4 items
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-3835/13	Illustrations 5 items
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-3835/14	Illustrations 11 items
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-3835/15	Illustrations 4 items
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-3835/16	Finger Paintings by Ruth Faison Shaw 2 items
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-3835/17	Finger Paintings 2 items
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-3835/18	Finger Paintings 2 items
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-3835/19	Finger Paintings 2 items
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-3835/20	Exhibit signs

Expand/collapse Series 10. Photographs and Photograph Albums, 1918-1968.

Images of Ruth Faison Shaw, her artwork, and exhibitions featuring her finger-paintings. There are images of Thomas A. Faison (1802-1866) and other family photographs, Christmas and greeting cards, travel photographs from Europe, and other items. There are several documents and letters mixed in with the photographs that which provide context to some of the images, most of which appear to have been taken in the 1920s.

Image Folder PF-3835/1-27

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PF-3835/9

PF-3835/10

PF-3835/11

PF-3835/12

PF-3835/13

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PF-3835/15

PF-3835/16

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PF-3835/18

PF-3835/19

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PF-3835/27

Photographs, circa 1918-1968

Image folders 26-27 include slides and negatives of Shaw's finger paintings.

Photograph Album PA-3835/1

Photograph album: Paris, France, 1919

Images documenting Shaw's travels in Paris and around France after World War I, including images of trenches and soldiers. Many images have descriptive captions. Some pages contain the names, home states, and other information about the soldiers and others she met on her travels.

Photograph Album PA-3835/2

Photograph album: Constantinople, Turkey, 1920-1921

Includes photographs taken during Shaw's travels in Constantinople, Turkey. Included are some pages with the names, hometowns, and quotations from American sailors Shaw met on her travels. Images include photographs of ships, sailors, refugees, mosques, and architecture.

Photograph Album PA-3835/3

Photograph album: Rome, Italy, 1923

Includes images taken during Shaw's time in Rome, Italy. Some pages include signatures and notes on people she met during her time there. There are photographs of Roman ruins and of the city, sketches, drawings, and doodles.

Photograph Album PA-3835/4

Photograph album, 1928-1932

Includes signatures and notes of thanks. This book may have been in use during Shaw's time as a teacher of British and American children in Rome. There are also several drawings.

Oversize Image Folder OP-PF-3835/1-2

OP-PF-3835/1

OP-PF-3835/2

Photograph album pages, circa 1940s-1950s

Includes pages with images of Shaw leading finger-painting workshops with veterans at a Young Men's Christian Association in Brooklyn, N.Y., circa 1940s. Also included are images of Shaw demonstrating finger painting in a 1954 television appearance. There are also enlarged images of Thomas A. Faison (1802-1866) and a small black dog.

Expand/collapse Series 11. Audio Recordings, 1976 and undated.

Audiocassette C-3835/1

Ruth Shaw bios and lectures, October 1976

Audiocassette

Audiocassette C-3835/2

Ruth Shaw

Audiocassette

Expand/collapse Additions, circa 1920s-1940s.

The additions include materials related to the Shaw estate and a small amount of correspondence related to Shaw's family history.

Folder 495-497

Folder 495

Folder 496

Folder 497

Additions, circa 1920s-1940s

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Photographs (PF-3835/1-27)
Image box (IB-3835/5)
Photograph albums (PA-3835/1-4)
Oversize volume (SV-3835/1)
Oversize paper folders (OPF-3835/1-)
Oversize Image Folder (OP-PF-3835/1-2)
Audiocassettes (C-3835/1-2)

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Collection Number: 03835 Collection Title: Ruth Faison Shaw Papers, 1908-1968