Examples of paper and textile collage, signed by M. Shaw

Content in this series is mostly created by Muriel Shaw and reflects her work and association with Vida Lahey, Daphne Mayo, the Half Dozen Group of Artists, teaching, and her artistic interests.

From 1930 to 1934 Shaw attended Vida Lahey's painting and drawing classes in Brisbane. Mim moved to Sydney in 1935 at the suggestion of Vida Lahey. Mim Shaw was an art teacher and in the early 1940s she assisted with Vida Lahey's afternoon painting and drawings classes for children. Mim also wrote an account of Vida Lahey, as suggested to her by Daphne Mayo. Vida Lahey was Mim Shaw's teacher, mentor and friend. All four items in this series are held in handmade, hand painted artist folders of roughly A3 size containing newspaper clippings, notes, drafts, teaching material, cards, colour charts, correspondence, and information on Daphne Mayo.

These postcards and prints were collected by Daphne Mayo during her travels in Europe and were used to inform her artistic work. The postcards (300), are mostly blank, and are mostly of historical buildings and sculptural art works in Europe. Some postcards have notes written by Daphne Mayo and some are addressed to her from friends. Newspaper cuttings, pictures cut from magazines and a line drawing are among the postcards.

After the death of Daphne Mayo on 31 July 1982, a group of friends decided to commemorate her public work for art in Queensland. Those involved included: Lloyd Rees, Professor Robert Cummings, Robert Haines, Judith McKay, Mim Shaw, sculptor colleagues, art dealers, and members of Mayo and Lahey families. From this, the Queensland Art Gallery agreed to have a casting done in bronze from 'Susannah' a plaster model by Mayo; and Judith McKay wrote Daphne Mayo : a tribute to her work for art in Queensland which was published by The Friends of Daphne Mayo in 1983.

Mim Shaw was one of the organisers of the 'Friends of Daphne Mayo' group, and her address was used in correspondence for the group. Mim wrote and/or drafted correspondence regarding the Judith McKay booklet, fundraising for it, promoting it and sending it to people and libraries as required.

Box 4
Four albums of largely unused postcards collected during World War I. Also includes postcards addressed to Eric Shapcott, Harold Shapcott's younger brother who died in a shooting accident at Glasshouse Mountains in 1918.
Album 1
96 unused postcards in a modern card album. Subjects include landscape views and buildings in the United Kingdom, South Africa, Tenerife, Perth (W.A.) as well as a few comical cards
Album 2
108 unused postcards in a modern card album. Subjects include landscape views and buildings in France.
Album 3
96 unused postcards in a modern card album. Subjects include landscape views and buildings in the United Kingdom.
Album 4
180 postcards, some used, in an old album. Includes mostly greeting cards, but also 52 views of Australian towns and cities.

1. 42nd Battalion Re-Union Committee. Christmas and New Year Greeting Cards, 1922 – 1940 [with gaps]
2. 42nd Battalion Re-Union Committee. Re-Union Dinner Menus and Programs, 1920 – 1948 [with gaps], and 1969 [together with a group of napkins presumably from the dinners]
3. 42nd Battalion Re-Union Committee. Flyers, including a flyer advertising the battalion history published in 1938
4. 42nd Battalion Re-Union Committee. Social and Dance Admission Ticket, 25 May 1922
5. Returned Sailors & Soldiers Imperial League of Australia. Commemorative Programs, Ipswich Branch, ca. 1920 – 1923
6. ANZAC Day Commemoration Service. Programs, Ipswich, 1920 - 1924
7. ANZAC Day Commemoration Service. Program, Brisbane, 1916 and 1921
8. Australian Imperial Force Church Parade at The Minster, Warminster, Hymn Sheet, 30 December 1917
9. Other WWI commemorative ephemera, 1920s
10. Album of cigarette cards
11. Album of cigarette cards
12. Album of cigarette cards
13. The Australian and New Zealand Expeditionary Forces Assemblage at and Departure from Albany, 1915
14. 42nd Battalion Re-Union Committee. The Old Batt Magazine, Vol. 1. No. 2 (Dec 1926) and 3 (May 1927)
15. 42nd Battalion AIF Association. News. 1 May 1941 – July 1944
16. The Safety Pin. Magazine, no. 2. October 1917
17. Coo-ee. The Journal of the Bishops Knoll Hospital, Bristol Vol 1 no.1

3 semi-autobiographical memoirs, primarily based on service in World War I.

Eight war service diaries, 1915 - 1919. Includes the diary of a German soldier with Shapcott's note at front: 'Captured... near Ypres'.

Box 1
Folders 1 - 4: 118 letters by Harold Shapcott to his family, written while on active service in World War I, 1915 - 1919
Folder 5: Typed transcript of letters in folder 1 - 4
Folder 6: 7 letters to Harold Shapcott from his family, 1916 - 1919.
Folders 7 - 10: 45 letters and 35 greeting cards from friends to Harold Shapcott, 1917 - 1922; 1929.

Box 2
Folder 1: 4 letters from Returned Sailors & Soldiers Imperial League of Australia, 1919 - 1921.
Folder 2: 12 letters from the 42nd Battalion Re-Union Committee, 1927 - 1943.
Folder 3: 17 items of correspondence relating to War Pension, 1936 - 1972.
Folder 4: 1 letter from Lloyd Hodge relating to 'War Babies', 15 April 1959.
Folder 5: 15 items of correspondence relating to 'Overseas trip', including earlier letters from France, 1919 - 1964.
Folder 6: 12 items of correspondence, including in relation to memberships and motor vehicles, 1938 - 1967.