Mabel Cook Shawn

Sub-Series

Scope and content

Subseries contains materials related to Mabel Cook Shawn (Ted Shawn's stepmother) and her family including photographs, documents and correspondence; Mabel Shawn's will written on an envelope, tintypes, and a photo album. Album includes photos of Ted Shawn and Ruth St. Denis from 1917; also some correspondence with Ted Shawn and Ruth St. Denis

Collection Contents

Correspondence, 1927 – 1960
Correspondence with Ted Shawn and Ruth St. Denis, 1945 – 1959
Mabel Cook Shawn - handwritten wishes for her ashes, 1943
Mabel Cook Shawn - Wedding Certificate, 1905
Newsclippings/printed materials, 1876 – 1960
Photographs, 1900 – 1960
William Arthur Cook (Mabel's brother), 1918 – 1943