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Crystal Palace from the northeast from Dickinson's Comprehensive Pictures of the Great Exhibition of 1851. 1854

Crystal Palace from the northeast from Dickinson's Comprehensive Pictures of the Great Exhibition of 1851. 1854
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Carriages for scale along the north-east front

In the 1852 Dickinson view, horse-drawn carriages and small figures line the drive. The tiered front and the arched transept tower over them, and a full-grown tree stands in the foreground.

The questionAt that scale, what did the hauling and erection really require from a horse-powered city?

Photo: Dickinson Brothers · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons

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