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Title: The Unknown Museum, 1980
Creator: Gene Cohn Productions
Date Created and/or Issued: 1980
Contributing Institution: Mill Valley Public Library
Collection: Mill Valley History Online
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Description: This photo shows the Unknown Museum owners Dickens Bascom and Mickey McGowan. Their museum, which was at the corner of Corte Madera Avenue and Gardner Street, housed an assemblage of American kitsch and cultural artifacts. In 1989 the property was purchased by Smith & Hawkins for their shop and plant nursery.
Type: image
Identifier: 9BCBA40B-8843-42BE-8D88-215552399470
MVU2907
Subject: Bascom, Dickens
Group portraits
McGowan, Mickey
Miscellaneous
Museums
Portrait photographs
Unknown Museum

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