At 12:11 PM 6/11/96 -0700, Carol Mayer wrote: >I sent a message a few weeks back but received only one response - so here >goes again. I am looking for any information you may have on the history of >museum models (working coal mines etc...the type you press a button and it >springs into action) and or dioramas - I have a brochure from the late 1920s >that advertises a company that made models and I am trying to put it in context. Although later than the 1920s, you might look into the role of the WPA Artists' Project in creating museum dioramas and models. I've seen a few of these in a local elementary school (Bucks County, PA) that has had them since the 1930s. Not sure off hand where archival records for the WPA are. Just a thought... Cory Amsler [log in to unmask]