Oral history interviews, 1981.

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Oral history interviews, 1981.

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Series of interviews with Payne, at Chapel Hill, N.C., about his professional and personal knowledge of Ruth Faison Shaw, artist, art therapist, and teacher, her personality and teaching, her collection of finger paintings and their value, the process of finger painting, and its therapeutic effect.

1 audiotape (3.25 hr.)

Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History, Maine Folklife Center

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Payne, John E.

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American cattle rancher. From the description of Papers, 1893-1917. (University of Arizona). WorldCat record id: 29547123 Veteran of the Civil War and agent of the Freedmen's Bureau. John Payne joined the Union army as a private in the 15th Regiment Iowa Infantry. Appointed second lieutenant to the 10th Regiment of Louisiana Volunteers of African Descent, he served as aide-de-camp to Brigadier General J.R. Hawkins of the 3rd Brigade, First Division, ...

Stankiewicz, Mary Ann

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Shaw, Ruth Faison, 1887-1969

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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 T...