Word: dioramas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...illuminated statuet of Jesus Christ, praying in a Garden of Gethsemane in which every leaf and blade of grass was meticulously modeled and painted. Every four and one-half minutes the lights slowly dimmed and the haloed plaster head of Jesus raised slowly heavenward. This was "the first animated diorama ever made of a religious subject," lent to Trinity by its makers, Diorama Corp. of America...
Next to the vitamin exhibit is a collection of samples of cancer-producing compounds and their intermediates discovered and isolated by Louis F. Fleser, associate professor of Chemistry. Other supplements to the "Children of Recovery" exhibit include a diorama, showing the late Theodore W. Richards at work in his Harvard laboratory...