25 photos from the The Great Exhibition: the grounds, each building, and what was lost. Tap a photo to look closer.
1 ClueThe Crystal Palace in Hyde Park for Grand International Exhibition of 1851Read & Co. Engravers & Printers · Public domain2 CluesGreat Exhibition, Transept looking west, HF Talbot, 1851William Henry Fox Talbot · Public domain2 CluesGreat Exhibition, Transept looking south, HF Talbot, 1851William Henry Fox Talbot · Public domainThe great industrial exhibition of 1851. Plate 3. The British nave LCCN2003665158Popular Graphic Arts · Public domain1 ClueCrystal Palace from the northeast from Dickinson's Comprehensive Pictures of the Great Exhibition of 1851. 1854Dickinson Brothers · Public domainCrystal Palace from the northeast from Dickinson's Comprehensive Pictures of the Great Exhibition of 1851. 1854Dickinson Brothers · Public domainThe Crystal Palace in Hyde Park for Grand International Exhibition of 1851Read & Co. Engravers & Printers · Public domainThe Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, south front, 1851Unknown photographer · Public domainNorth-west corner of the Crystal Palace, photographed by Henry Fox Talbot, 1851William Henry Fox Talbot · Public domainLooking west along the nave from the transept, 1851Miscellaneous Items in High Demand, PPOC, Library of Congress · Public domainLooking east along the nave from the transept, 1851Miscellaneous Items in High Demand, PPOC, Library of Congress · Public domainIndia-rubber boat and pontoons on display inside the Crystal Palace, 1851Miscellaneous Items in High Demand, PPOC, Library of Congress · Public domainThe western nave of the Crystal Palace, 1851Rijksmuseum · CC0Interior of the Crystal Palace, daguerreotype by John Jabez Edwin Mayall, 1851John Jabez Edwin Mayall · Public domainAgricultural implements displayed at the Great Exhibition, Talbot, 1851William Henry Fox Talbot · Public domainAgricultural machinery exhibit, Great Exhibition, Talbot, 1851William Henry Fox Talbot · Public domainThe locomotive 'Folkestone' on display, Talbot, 1851William Henry Fox Talbot · Public domainVacuum sugar-boiling apparatus on display, Talbot, 1851William Henry Fox Talbot · Public domainThe eastern nave of the Crystal Palace, Talbot, 1851William Henry Fox Talbot · Public domainThe transept looking south, 1851Nicolaas Henneman · CC0Interior of the Crystal Palace, daguerreotype, 1851Gros, Jean-Baptiste-Louis (1793-1870). Photographe · Public domainPrince Albert's model houses for working families, built beside the exhibition, 1851Claude-Marie Ferrier (1811 - 1889) Details on Google Art Project · Public domainAugust Kiss's 'Amazon on horseback' displayed in the Crystal Palace, 1851Rijksmuseum · CC0Marochetti's Richard the Lionheart statue outside the Crystal Palace, 1851Rijksmuseum · CC0Fraikin's reclining Psyche on display, 1851Rijksmuseum · CC0