For the first time, all 19 of Lee’s surviving dioramas will be on public view in Murder Is Her Hobby: Frances Glessner Lee and the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death.
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Friday, October 06, 2017
Blood Pools and Charred Skeletons from 1940s Crime Dioramas
Frances Glessner Lee created intricate crime scenes for Harvard’s Department of Legal Medicine in the 1940s and ’50s. Each diorama shows a death in miniature, with details carefully crafted down to the working door locks and painted blood splatters. The Nutshell Studies were aimed at training homicide investigators to “convict the guilty, clear the innocent, and find the truth in a nutshell.”
For the first time, all 19 of Lee’s surviving dioramas will be on public view in Murder Is Her Hobby: Frances Glessner Lee and the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death.
Read more here
For the first time, all 19 of Lee’s surviving dioramas will be on public view in Murder Is Her Hobby: Frances Glessner Lee and the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death.
Read more here
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