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Chandelier at the Great Exhibition 1851This ornate chandelier, by R Winfield of the Cambridge Street Works, Birmingham, is exhibited at the Crystal Palace, the Great Exhibition. Date: 1851
Reads patent garden watering engine 1851Reads patent garden watering engine, exhibited at the Crystal Palace in 1851, demonstrated here in a real garden. Date: 1851
GREAT TIT (MORRIS)GREAT TIT (Parus major) Date: 1851
STORMY PETRELSTORM / STORMY PETREL (Procellaria pelagica) Date: 1851
KESTREL (MORRIS)(Falco tinnunculus) A fine tails end view. Date: 1851
GYRFALCON (sometimes Gerfalcon) (Falco gyrfalco) Date: 1851
RUNNING AT BAYSWATERFoot-race at Bayswater - presumably in Hyde Park. Date: 1851
DEANES FLOUR MILLDeanes Patent Economic Flour Mill, operated by hand. Date: 1851
MAKING PRESERVES 1851A French housewife makes preserves. Date: 1851
FURS AT EXHIBITIONThe display of furs, by Smith & Sons of Watling Street, especially the sables, attracts great interest. Date: 1851
Duke of Wellington visits the Great Exhibition 1851The Duke of Wellington visits the Great Exhibition site, as items are unpacked by workmen. Date: 1851
MEETING IN PARISBanquet at the Hotel de Ville, Paris, to attract French support for the Exhibition project. Date: 1851
MEETING OF LADIES 1850Meeting of the Ladies Committee at Stafford House, Piccadilly, in aid of the Great Exhibition of Industry of All Nations, to be held in 1851. Date: 1850
CRYSTAL PALACE VISITORSVisitors to the East India Court admire the native craftsmanship. Date: 1851
BUILDING BOILER HOUSEBuilding the boiler-house which will provide heating for the exhibition halls. Date: 1851
Catalogue title page 1851The allegorical title page of the Official Catalogue to the exhibition shows how the artist and the architect, the scientist and the workman join forces for the common good. Date: 1851
THE GLAZING WAGON 1851Paxton had to be not only architect but engineer : this glazing wagon enabled the builders to position the glass panels of the roof in an assembly-line process. Date: 1851
TESTING THE CONSTRUCTIONTroops from the nearby Knightsbridge barracks are made to run in step, to test the strength of the flooring in the Exhibition. Date: 1851
CRYSTAL PALACE IN B+WA distant view of the exhibition building showing its location in Hyde Park; visitors relax in the park after the overwhelming impact of the display... Date: 1851
Verdi - Rigoletto - Liebig2La Scala, Milano, and a scene from the opera which was actually first performed at La Fenice, Venezia Date: first performed 1851
THOMAS ARITHOMETER 1851Thomas Arithometer. Date: 1851
Social scenes: Norway storyteller, c. 1851In a peasant home, an old countrywoman holds her hearers entranced with her folktales and stories of times gone by. Date: circa 1851
SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH COMPANYThe instrument room of the Submarine Telegraph Company, Cornhill, London Date: 1851
TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLINDublin: a concert in the theatre of Trinity College. Date: 1851
DEAN MILLS / LANCASHIREThe doubling room at Dean Mills, Lancashire, a cotton mill. Date: 1851
CRYSTAL PALACE / OPENINGVictoria, Queen of Britain, opens the Great Exhibition of the industry of all nations. Date: 1 May 1851
CRYSTAL PALACE / BUILDINGCutting down of trees in the north transept Date: 1851
Great Exhibition constructionConstruction workin progress on the upper portion of a column. Date: 1851
Great Exhibition - Sheffield CourtSheffield Court. Date: 1851
Cartoon, Theres Always Something. Having recognised Napoleon IIIs government without cabinet authority, foreign secretary Palmerston is sacked by PM Lord John Russell. Date: December 1851
LOUIS-NAPOLEONS COUPBarricades at Faubourg St Martin, Paris, during Louis- Napoleons coup. Date: 3 December 1851
BARTH / AFRICA / LAKE CHADHerd of elephants, Lake Chad: Dr Heinrich Barth crossed the Sahara from Tripoli, through the Chad basin to Timbuktu, where he did work on the languages and ethnography. Date: September 1851
PALACE DESIGNS BY TURNERDesign by R & T Turner: exterior view and interior Date: 1851
CRYSTAL PALACE PLANSThe exterior view and ground plan for the building committees design Date: 1851
CRYSTAL PALACE ROOFA view of the immense glass roof of the Crystal Palace viewed from the lead flat, the only portion of solid roofing in this fairy structure Date: 1851
Teetotal Demonstration - Crystal Palace 1851A well attended Teetotal Demonstration Date: 5 August 1851
Great Exhibition - Chinese Mandarin 1851The Chinese Mandarin at the opening of the Great Exhibition, accompanies Queen Victoria and the Duke of Wellington Date: 1851
Great Exhibition - Southern Entrance 1851Front southern entrance to the transept of the Great Industrial Exhibition in Hyde Park. Date: 1851
Ladies at Piano 1851Two fashionably dressed ladies at the keyboard Date: 1851
COAL / RHONDDA FETEFete in celebration of Winning the Coal on the Rhondda branch of the Taff Vale Railway Date: 1851
Interior of the Great Exhibition of 1851Looking north in the transept of the Great Exhibition, with a fountain in the foreground and showing the elm trees. Date: 1851
Census - CruikshankTaking the Census. The head of an oversized, extended family has difficulty remembering the names of his kin and servants let alone how many there are! Date: 1851
RC ENTICING NUNS 1851How the Roman Catholics entice innocent girls into convents - letting them take the veil, and appropriating their money - an example of anti-Catholic feeling in Victorian England Date: 1851
FIRE ENGINE 1851SHAND & MASON fire engine, displayed at the Great Exhibition, 1851 Date: 1851
Great Exhibition, cotton machines 1851A perspective view, looking West, of Messrs. Hibbert and Platts cotton machines and Messrs. Hick and Sons high- pressure steam-engine and driving gear. Date: 1851
Cotton machines at the Great Exhibition 1851A perspective view, looking East, of Messrs. Hibbert and Platts cotton machines amd Messrs. Hick and Sons high- pressure steam-engine and driving gear. Date: 1851
FOUCAULT DEMO, 1851Leon Foucault uses his pendulum to demonstrate the rotation of the Earth, at the Pantheon, Paris, 1851 Date: 1851
Cartoon, Pic-nicHow very fortunate we are with the weather; it would have been so provoking to have brought our umbrellas and then to have had a fine day! Date: 1851