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Narcissa Niblack Thorne was an Indiana native who married into a wealthy Chicago family, becoming the wife of one of the heirs to the Montgomery Ward catalog and department store fortune. As Mrs. James Ward Thorne, during the first half of the 20th century, she created close to 100 roomboxes to showcase her extensive collection of dollhouse miniatures.

Credited with standardizing 1:12 dollhouse miniature scale (1 miniature inch for each real inch, now the most common scale for dollhouse miniatures), Mrs. Thorne collected miniatures from world-wide sources, as well a commissioning talented artists and crafts people to create highly-detailed miniatures to her specifications.

Mrs. Thorne also treated her miniature roomboxes visually like stages sets, adapting room styles and layouts to account for the missing "fourth wall," the way a theatrical designer would.

Currently 68 Thorne Rooms are displayed at the Art Institute of Chicago. Another 20 Thorne Rooms are in the collection of the Phoenix Art Museum. Nine are at the Knoxville Museum of Art, and the Indianapolis Children's Museum and the Kaye Miniature Museum in Los Angeles have one Thorne Room each.

During her lifetime Mrs. Thorne also created a room which depicted a library at Windsor Castle as a gift for England's King Edward VIII. When the king abdicated, that Thorne room went into the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

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Online catalog of quality dollhouse miniatures, including vintage Reminiscence and Thorne Room reproductions. Plus great dollhouse miniature info.
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2. Dollhouse Miniatures Blog
Miniature Resource.com's dollhouse miniatures blog. Thoughts and info about dollhouse miniatures. Photos of dollhouse miniatures and roomboxes.
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3. eBay Dollhouse Miniatures
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4. National Miniatures Trust
Non-profit, charitable organization dedicated to building a vibrant, cohesive miniatures community, with a museum in Grand Rapids, MI.
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5. NAME
National Association of Miniature Enthusiasts celebrates the dollhouse miniatures hobby.
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6. International Guild of Miniature Artisans
IGMA is a non-profit organization that promotes fine miniatures as an art form.
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7. Dollhouse Miniatures
Dollhouse Miniatures Magazine online articles and information about dollhouse miniatures.
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8. Imagination Mall
Meeting yur miniatures and dollhouse needs on the web since 1995!
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9. Columbia Games
Play Hammer of the Scots online, free...
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10. Aztec Imports - Everything For Dollhouses & Miniatures
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11. Small Stuff Miniature Digest : Signs of Mini-Addiction
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12. Miniature Inspiration
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13. Links - Lady Jane Glass Display Cases
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14. NAME National Association of Miniature Enthusiasts
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15. Miniatures ( unique miniatures architectural details ) Hobbies digest
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16. Miniature Doll House information for the traveling collector.
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17. Addiction & Are you a pack rat?
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18. Doll house miniature - Miniature Crafts
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19. Miniature Collector Magazine Indexes
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20. Doll Housese
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21. Misc. Interesting Stuff
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22. Ho Model Trains
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23. Miniature Enthusiasts of Montreal - Welcome
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