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• ISBN: 0910050686
• ISBN: 9780910050685
• Physical Description: x, 428 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm.
• Publisher: Nashville, Tenn. : American Association for State and Local History, c1983.

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Includes bibliographies and index.

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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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