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Miss Bartlett, the French Gift, and the Mystery of the Missing Photographer

It sounded so simple: create a little text for a label to display with one of the Museum’s most reproduced images, the picture of our Founder Florence Dibell Bartlett examining a gift from the French Republic in the company of our first Director Robert Bruce Inverarity and French Consul Paul Coze... but the search led on a meandering trail through Museum history
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Jun 23, 2016
Tags: memories, archives, Florence Dibell Bartlett, Robert Bruce Inverarity, Ernest Johanson

In the Beginning

Welcome to the blog of the Museum of International Folk Art. We begin by revisiting our beginnings, with a link to museum founder Florence Dibell Bartlett's recorded essay for This I Believe.
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Feb 12, 2016
Tags: Florence Dibell Bartlett, museum history