| Author | Alexander, Edward P. (Edward Porter), 1907-
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| Title | Museum masters : their museums and their influence / Edward P. Alexander.
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| Published | Nashville, Tenn. : American Association for State and Local History, c1983.
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| Description | x, 428 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.
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| ISBN | 0-910050-68-6 |
| Bib. Note | Includes bibliographies and index.
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| Formatted Note | Contents: Sir Hans Sloane and the British Museum -- Charles Willson Peale and his Philadelphia Museum -- Dominique Vivant Denon and the Louvre of Napoleon -- William Jackson Hooker and the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew -- Henry Cole and the South Kensington (Victoria and Albert) Museum -- Ann Pamela Cunningham and Washington's Mount Vernon -- Wilhelm Bode and Berlin's Museum Island -- Artur Hazelius and Skansen -- George Brown Goode and the Smithsonian Museums -- Carl Hagenbeck and his Stellingen Tierpark -- Oskar von Miller and the Deutsches Museum -- John Cotton Dana and the Newark Museum.
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| Subjects | Museum directors -- Europe -- Biography.
Museum directors -- United States -- Biography.
Museum techniques.
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| Organizations | American Association for State and Local History.
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| LC Card Number | 83-7086//r88 |
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| | WRHS Research Library: AM 7 A376
mq16091: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 9354] |
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