The World Museum
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The World Museum was a full-page illustrated feature
in American Sunday newspapers
during the 1930s. Devised and drawn by Holling Clancy Holling
, it was also known as The World Museum Dioramas.
Holling (1900–1973) graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1923, joined the taxidermy department of Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History and worked in anthropology under Dr. Ralph Linton. Holling created the book Paddle-to-the-Sea
, which was a Caldecott Honor Book
in 1942.
He married Lucille Webster and accepted a position as art instructor on the first University World Cruise, sponsored by New York University. Holling dedicated much of his time and interest to creating The World Museum pages and books for children.
, often with a subject from nature, such as The Grand Canyon
or Buffalo Hunt
. A page on covered wagon
s carries the headline, "Covered wagons shown in an easy-to-build model: Scissors, paste and wrapping paper are all you need to make this Western set."
Sunday strip
A Sunday strip is a newspaper comic strip format, where comic strips are printed in the Sunday newspaper, usually in a special section called the Sunday comics, and virtually always in color. Some readers called these sections the Sunday funnies...
in American Sunday newspapers
Sunday comics
Sunday comics is the commonly accepted term for the full-color comic strip section carried in most American newspapers. Many newspaper readers called this section the Sunday funnies, the funny papers or simply the funnies....
during the 1930s. Devised and drawn by Holling Clancy Holling
Holling C. Holling
Holling Clancy Holling was an American author and illustrator, best known for the book Paddle-to-the-Sea, which was a Caldecott Honor Book in 1942. Paddle to the Sea won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1962...
, it was also known as The World Museum Dioramas.
Holling (1900–1973) graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1923, joined the taxidermy department of Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History and worked in anthropology under Dr. Ralph Linton. Holling created the book Paddle-to-the-Sea
Paddle to the Sea
Paddle-to-the-Sea is a 1941 children's book, written and illustrated by American author/artist Holling C. Holling. It was recognized as a Caldecott Honor Book in 1942....
, which was a Caldecott Honor Book
Caldecott Medal
The Caldecott Medal is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children , a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children published that year. The award was named in honor of nineteenth-century English...
in 1942.
He married Lucille Webster and accepted a position as art instructor on the first University World Cruise, sponsored by New York University. Holling dedicated much of his time and interest to creating The World Museum pages and books for children.
Dramatic dioramas
The reader was given instructions for cutting the pictures apart and assembling them into a dioramaDiorama
The word diorama can either refer to a nineteenth century mobile theatre device, or, in modern usage, a three-dimensional full-size or miniature model, sometimes enclosed in a glass showcase for a museum...
, often with a subject from nature, such as The Grand Canyon
Grand Canyon
The Grand Canyon is a steep-sided canyon carved by the Colorado River in the United States in the state of Arizona. It is largely contained within the Grand Canyon National Park, the 15th national park in the United States...
or Buffalo Hunt
American Bison
The American bison , also commonly known as the American buffalo, is a North American species of bison that once roamed the grasslands of North America in massive herds...
. A page on covered wagon
Covered wagon
The covered wagon, also known as a Prairie schooner, is an icon of the American Old West.Although covered wagons were commonly used for shorter moves within the United States, in the mid-nineteenth century thousands of Americans took them across the Great Plains to Oregon and California...
s carries the headline, "Covered wagons shown in an easy-to-build model: Scissors, paste and wrapping paper are all you need to make this Western set."