Dr. Charles Gardner Shaw (1917-1998) served as a professor, and later a chairman, in the Department of Plant Pathology at Washington State University from 1947 to 1983. Dr. Shaw earned his B.S. degree from Ohio Wesleyan College in 1938, his Master of Science degree from Pennsylvania State University in 1947, and his Ph.D. in Botany from the University of Wisconsin in 1949. Dr. Shaw also served in the U.S. Marine Corps during WWII, continuing in the Marine Corps Reserves and later as a liaison officer for the Marine Corps and WSU after his appointment to the university as a professor. Dr. Shaw taught forest pathology and was an expert on diseases of forest trees, an area in which he conducted extensive research projects in the late 1940s and through the 1950s. Dr. Shaw's later research focused on mycology, especially the downy mildews. By the 1970s, Dr. Shaw participated in several projects, including his position as Chief of Party for an international team of agricultural scientists working in a Jordanian agricultural university.
This collection contains professional papers of Dr. Charles Gardner Shaw (1917-1998), who served as a professor and later chairman of the Department of Plant Pathology at Washington State University from 1947 to 1983. It consists of correspondence (incoming and outgoing), research materials (notes, collected articles, reports, and drawings), photographs, and audio recordings.
This is an unprocessed collection. Arrangement reflects a pre-existing order from the records’ creators or previous custodians.
This collection is open and available for research use.
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Preliminary Guide to the Charles Gardner Shaw Papers, 1940-1983 (MSSM.020)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
This collection was transferred in multiple installments from Charles Gardner Shaw and the WSU Mycology Herbarium Office to the Washington State University Libraries between 1985 and 2006 (MS.1985.19, MS.2005.27, MS.2006.12) and then again in 2025 (MS.2025.03).
Charles Gardner Shaw Papers, 1939-1983 (Cage 554).
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