Personal Business Records
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Shaw, Samuel T., 1861-1945
setName: label: See more items in
content: Samuel T. Shaw papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.4 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1889-1946
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.shawsamue, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: This series is arranged in alphabetical order.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: The bulk of this series has been digitized, except for duplicates and blank versos of photographs.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Most of the personal business records consist of materials related to various "Shaw prizes" and the dinners Shaw held for artists who won the best painting award at exhibitions at the Salmagundi Club and Society of American Artists. The artist dinner files include invitations, clippings, drafts of speeches and poems honoring the artists, receipts for dinner expenses, and limited correspondence. 

The series also includes a few lists of artists who won prizes and photographs of 3 paintings by artists who were probably award winners. In addition, there is material related to the sale of Samuel T. Shaw's art collection, assorted receipts and invoices, and other miscellaneous material.