Slideshow of antique natural history museum dioramas

Diorama Boing

Our pal Ben Cosgrove at LIFE posted a gorgeous slideshow of ye olde natural history museum dioramas. Seen above, an 1898 "Beisa Antelope Oryx diorama" by taxidermist Carl Akeley, from the collection of the Field Museum. "Wild Dioramas Back In The Day"