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

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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