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
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