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Mollie Shaw was the first female architect employed by the Public Works Department of the Allied Service in 1941. She was one of the first female architects in Australia to be accepted as an equal in the male-dominated architectural profession.Full description
Mary Turner Shaw, an architect with the firm of Bates, Smart and McCutcheon Pty. Ltd., was commissioned to write the history of T.R. & L. Cockram Pty. Ltd., at that time the oldest extant family firm of builders in Melbourne. The publication ' Builders of Melbourne: the Cockrams and their contemporaries, 1853-1972', was published in 1972 by Cypress Press Melbourne.
Mary Turner Shaw, an architect with the firm of Bates, Smart and McCutcheon Pty. Ltd., was commissioned to write the history of T.R. & L. Cockram Pty. Ltd., at that time the oldest extant family firm of builders in Melbourne. The publication ' Builders of Melbourne: the Cockrams and their contemporaries, 1853-1972', was published in 1972 by Cypress Press Melbourne.
Mary Turner (Mollie) Shaw (1906-1990), architect and historian, was born on 14 January 1906 at Caulfield, Melbourne, youngest of four surviving children of Victorian-born Thomas Turner Shaw, grazier, and...
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- AU-AIAS:AUTH : A30384
- AU-CaAIA : XX30384
- AuCNLKIN : abv00416590
- AU-AuCNLKIN : 35494009
- AU-ANU:ADBO : adb.anu.edu.au/biography/shaw-mary-turner-mollie-15801
- AU-VU:AWR : www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE6371b.htm
- Handle : 11343/126651
- Handle : 11343/62128
- AuCNLKIN : nla.gov.au/anbd.aut-an35494009
- NLA : nla.party-526184
