The Depression curtailed much of its activity, but staff paid by the Works Progress Administration contributed nearly 1.5 million man-hours to the Museum between 1935-1941, and a share of this was in the reproduction lab. It was during that period that many of the Museum's full-sized ecological dioramas were executed.
Field Museum worker in Florida with Heliconia leaf cast, 1919.
This Illinois woodlands scene was one of five large botanical dioramas completed between 1933 and 1941.
