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The Crystal Palace, or The Crystal Palace, or The Great Exhibition The Great Exhibition
of 1851 of 1851
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The Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851. Henry Windham Philips
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"[Isambard Kingdom] Brunel, Scott Russell and Robert Stephenson were members of the building committee of the big fair. They held a design competition for the main hall and invited the world's architects to submit plans within three weeks. They actually received 245 drawings. None were satisfactory so Brunel drew up a committee plan, featuring a sheet iron dome two hundred feet in diameter. The building was sort of squatly Romanesque with a whiff of Byzantine. At this stage Paxton sketched his gigantic greenhouse. Brunel was its first champion and volunteered to design the great water towers to flank the Crystal Palace." —
John Dugan: “The Great Iron Ship”. New York: Harpers, 1953
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Sir Joseph Paxton's original sketch on blotting paper of the Crystal Palace. 11 June 1850. jamp'07jamp'07 44
Interior, seen from Picadilly end, The Burlington Arcade. Designed by designed
by Samuel Ware, 1819.
Raising the ribs of the transcept roofDesigned by Sir Joseph Paxton1851
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Ribs of the Transept, Crystal Palace
1851
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Raising the Girder of the Central Aisle1851
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Glass and Iron Vaulted Roof of the Great ExhibitionDesigned by Sir Joseph Paxton
1851
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Construction of the Roof of Crystal Palace1851
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One of the original Delamotte photographs of the original building
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Great Exhibition Building — Sectional View of Galleries. From The Illustrated London News.
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[India] Sculpture displays in front of the Indian Pavillion. The Great Exhibition of 1851. Caption from The Illustrated London News:
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Grand Panorama of the Great Exhibition of 1851 — Portion of the South Transeptfrom The Illustrated London News
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The Medieval Court at the Great Exhibition of 1851. Arranged by Augustus Welby Pugin. 1851.
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Machinery Section at the Great Exhibition
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Agricultural Machinery Section at the Great Exhibition
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Steam-Powered Tractor and Agricultural Machinery
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Folkstone 4-2-0 Locomotive
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Queen Victoria Visits the Great Exhibition
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Crystal Palace in Sydenhamjamp'07jamp'07 2121
External view of the Roof and Vaulting of the Crystal Palace after the move to Sydenham
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The enormous "Crystal Palace" went from plans to grand opening in just nine months.