Image Credits

Clayton, George. Sermons on the Great Exhibition. London: Benjamin L. Green, 1851. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:The_Great_Exhibition-_it%27s_dangers_and_duties_(IA_1851SermonsontheGreatExhibition).pdf&page=5. Image Credits: Internet Archive. Public Domain.

Dickinsons Brothers. Crystal Palace from the Northeast. 1852. Painting, in Dickinsons' Comprehensive Pictures of the Great Exhibition of 1851 (London, 1852, Dickinson Brothers), https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crystal_Palace_from_the_northeast_from_Dickinson%27s_Comprehensive_Pictures_of_the_Great_Exhibition_of_1851._1854.jpg. Public Domain.

Illustrated Exhibitor, Tribute to the World's Industrial Jubilee; Sketches, by Pen and Pencil, of the Principal Objects in the Great Exhibition of the Industry of all Nations. London: John Cassell, 1851. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31175001860983&seq=1&q1=peculiar. Image Credit: Hathi Trust. Public Domain.

Lami, Eugène. Opening of the Great Exhibition. 1851. Painting, 62.8 x 49.6 cm (24.7 x 19.5 in). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eug%C3%A8ne_Louis_Lami_-_Opening_of_the_Great_Exhibition,_1_May_1851_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg. Image Credit: Royal Collection Trust. Public Domain.

Mayhew, Henry, and Cruikshank, George. 1851: Or, The Adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Sandboys and Family, Who Came up to London to Enjoy Themselves and to See the Great Exhibition. London: George Newbold, 1851. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/ 65234. Image Credits: Project Gutenberg. Public Domain.

McNeven, J. The Foreign Department, Viewed Towards the Transept. 1851. Print, 29.4 x 46.6 cm (11.6 x 18.3 in), Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crystal_Palace_-_interior.jpg. Public Domain.

Moore, Daniel. What Have They Seen in Thine House? Or Reflections on the Opening of the Great Exhibition: A Sermon. London: Derby & Son, 1851. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:%22What_have_they_seen_in_thine_house%3F%22_-_or_reflections_on_the_opening_of_the_Great_Exhibition_;_a_sermon_preached_on_Sunday_morning,_April_27th,_1851_(IA_1851WhatHaveTheySeenInThineHouse).pdf&page=5. Image Credits: Internet Archive. Public Domain.

Read & Co. Engravers & Printers. The Crystal Palace in Hyde Park for Grand International Exhibition of 1851. 1851. Print, 25.3 x 38.4 cm (9 15/16 x 15 1/8 in), https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Crystal_Palace_in_Hyde_Park_for_Grand_International_Exhibition_of_1851.jpg. Public Domain.

Stuart Wortley, Emmeline. On the Approaching Close of the Great Exhibition, and Other Poems. London: W. N. Wright, 1851. https://archive.org/details/onapproachingcl00wort goog/page/n4/mode/2up. Image Credits: Internet Archive. Public Domain.

Wikimedia Commons. Plan of the Crystal Palace. 1851. Drawing. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crystal_Palace_-_plan.jpg?uselang=en#Licensing. Public Domain.

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