Frances Wells Shaw
1872-1937
Chicago traveler, poet & playwright
- About the creator
Frances Wells Shaw was born in Chicago in 1872. Her mother died when she was an infant, so her father, Moses Wells, a successful shoe manufacturer, sent for a relative to care for her and her older sister. They grew up in a house on Michigan Avenue. Frances Wells was educated at Miss Porter’s School in Farmington, Connecticut. In 1893 she married Howard Van Doren Shaw, a long-time family friend and one of Chicago’s leading architects...
- About the collection
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Papers of the Shaw family of Chicago and Lake Forest, mainly of Frances Wells Shaw (1872-1937), wife of architect Howard Van Doren Shaw (1869-1926). The bulk consists of material related to the frequent domestic and international travels of Frances Shaw during the first half of the twentieth century. Includes diaries, expense accounts, brochures, guides, maps, post cards, photographs, souvenir items, scraps and notes, business and personal cards, and other ephemera collected and saved by Shaw on her trips...
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