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

Time Travel and Travel Time
Continuing our trip through photos of early days at the Museum, we see people arrive on opening day, and explore early traveling exhibits from Tools and Woodworking to Magic and Medicine.
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Looking Back
We've been looking back at photos from the Museum's early days. Here are two favorites, both by Laura Gilpin.
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