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Shaw's donation of dolls and figurines proved very popular among visitors to the museum. "There is one collection in the Oriental Exhibition at the Natural History Museum," wrote a Saint John Globe reporter in 1924, "before which every one stops, even if for but a moment, and that is…the exhibit of gay little dolls loaned by Miss Loretta Shaw and Mrs. Charles F. Sanford."


New Brunswick Museum, Saint John, N.B., 40954 Japanese doll with brocade robes The Loretta L. Shaw Collection		New Brunswick Museum, Saint John, N.B., 7010 Japanese doll: "O Nao: Girl of Four or Five" The Loretta L. Shaw Collection		New Brunswick Museum, Saint John, N.B., 40954 and 7010 Japanese dolls: Woman with brocade robes and "O Nao: Girl of Four or Five