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The making of Am Fasgadh : an account of the origins of the Highland Folk Museum by its founder

Title
The making of Am Fasgadh : an account of the origins of the Highland Folk Museum by its founder / Isabel Frances Grant ; general editor, Alexander Fenton.
Author
Grant, I. F. (Isabel Frances)
Publication
Edinburgh : NMS, 2007.

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Additional Authors
  • Fenton, Alexander.
  • European Ethnological Research Centre.
  • National Museums of Scotland.
Description
192 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 20 cm.
Summary
Isabel Grant (1887-1983) was born in Edinburgh to a family with strong Highland connections. This narrative chronicles her struggles in the face of indifference, little money, sexism and the Scottish climate to establish the Highland Folk Museum.
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Subject
  • Grant, I. F
  • Highland Folk Museum (Scotland) > History
  • Highland Folk Museum (Scotland)
  • Geschichte 1920-1930
  • Material culture > Scotland > Highlands
  • Ethnological museums and collections > Scotland
  • Ethnological museums and collections
  • Material culture
  • Volkskunde
  • Museum
  • Gründung
  • Scotland
  • Scotland > Highlands
  • Highlands
  • Edinburgh
Genre/Form
History.
Note
  • In association with the European Ethnological Research Centre.
ISBN
  • 9781905267200
  • 1905267207
OCLC
  • ocn181928501
  • 181928501
  • SCSB-1471107
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library