Let's sneak into the 1851 WORLDS FAIR

"All the World's going to see the Great Exhibition Of 1851"

        

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"Exhibition of 1851, Admission at The Southern Entrance, 

and at no other"

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"Season Ticket of Admission to the Exhibition of the Works of Industry
of all nations 1851"   it costs the public one shilling a day to attend
        
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the Crystal Palace washrooms are patrolled for Victorian criminals
... dippers,  ladybirds and mashers are prohibited
        
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a photograph of the Crystal Palace       see full size
        
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this earlier design was rejected for the Crystal Palace       see full size
        
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for the average 1851 public,  this was overstimulating and tiring ... 

there are whiffs of camphor, vanilla, sawdust, peppermint and people
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"Dunin's Expanding figure"  seven thousand steel pieces of springs and slides
on a mechanically expanding human figure
        
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a king's throne from an African nation       see full size
        
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a glass-blowing performance
        
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the botanical wing in the 1851 Crystal Palace       see full size
    
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the 1851 Great Exhibition of London Crystal Palace interior crowds
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you never know when you might need a "Mass of Crystalized Alum"
        
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"The Mass of Rock Crystal"

  

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"Carriage Department"   Fall in love with the feel of the road.
 This is where transportation was headed,  and these
 were the all-new 1851 carriages that would take us there
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a bench for resting       see full size
        
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Wyld's Great Globe       see full size
        
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the Crystal Palace sheet-iron dome from inside,  with stained glass windows 
               
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a double staircase       see full size
        
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earlier construction of an illuminating roof       see full size
        
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the completed illuminating roof       see full size
        
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it was common in World's Fairs to display stuffed animals in human
pose, as well as human skeletons playing cards or whatever
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"Comic Electric Telegraph"    a very early display of magnetic electricity moved the mouth
        
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a paper mache chair ... some 1800s homes had fake furniture for aesthetic appearance
        
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performer Signor Ethardo walked a ball up a spiral ramp
        
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interior trees at the Crystal Palace
        
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the Egyptian relics display
        
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the Crystal Fountain,  made of four tons of pure crystal glass
        
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when the Great Exhibition ended,  the Crystal Palace was moved
out of Hyde Park to a new site in 1856 with an added dinosaur display 
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the 1864 Crystal Palace pneumatic railway (air pressure tunnel)
was also built at the new location       see full size

    

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a Caspar David Friedrich painting,  1818       see full size
      
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a Willie Geiger book plate,  1905

     
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an Arnold Böcklin painting,  1800s       see full size
     
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Burne Hogarth's Tarzan of The Apes
      
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1947

    
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a Gustave Doré illustration

    
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a 1967 Vin Guliani illustration
      
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a Franklin Booth illustration

           
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Stefan Żechowski       see full size
      
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an Edmund J. Sullivan book illustration

              
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a Dave Passalacqua illustration       see full size

     
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a photograph by Weegee (Arthur Fellig)
      
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a 1970 illustration about business concerns

    
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a Stella Langdale book illustration,  1900s
      
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a  W. Heath Robinson book illustration
      
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an Andy Virgil magazine illustration
      
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a  Joseph Clement Cole illustration detail       see full size
      
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an  Arthur Gaskin book illustration       see full size
      
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a Fred Barnard book illustration       see full size
      
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a Georges Seurat painting
      
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a 1938 cinematic stage       see full size

    
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an Andrew Loomis illustration

    
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a Henry Patrick Raleigh illustration       see full size

    
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an Edward Gorey cartoon,  "On the shore a bat, or possibly an umbrella . . . disengaged itself from the shrubbery . . . causing those nearby to recollect the miseries of childhood."
      
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Harpo Marx

     
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Stimpy by Scott Wills       see full size

     
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1963

     
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a 1968 illustration

     
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a Joseph Clement Coll illustration       see full size

     
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a Bernie Fuchs illustration       see full size

     

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an Agnes Miller Parker illustration,  1940s?