In the 1940s, Frances Glessner Lee did a series of 1:12 crime scene dioramas as scientific tools which helped in the birth of forensic science in solving unexplained deaths. They have been used as teaching tools for years since then.
Her "Nutshell Studies of "Unexplained Death" are discussed in this great article from the Smithsonian Magazine here.
I've often wondered if her name "Nutshell Studies" was the inspiration behind the name of "Nutshell News", the name of the wonderful miniature magazine which inspired so many of us in our early days as miniaturists.
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