Reflecting their Time: The »Nutshell Studies« of Unexplained Death as Microcosms of Mid-Century America

In the 1940s and 1950s, Chicago heiress Frances Glessner Lee (1878–1962) created a group of miniature rooms and buildings as tools for forensic investigators-in-training at Harvard Medical School’s Department of Legal Medicine. Known collectively as the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, each re...

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Main Author: Courtney Leigh Harris
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: universi - Universitätsverlag Siegen 2019-09-01
Series:Denkste: Puppe
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Online Access:https://dedo.ub.uni-siegen.de/index.php/de_do/article/view/42