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	The Great Exhibition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Great Exhibition, also known as the Crystal Palace Exhibition, was an international exhibition held in Hyde Park, London, from 1 May to 15 October 1851 and the first in a series of World's Fair exhibitions of culture and industry that were to be a popular 19th century feature.
		The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations was organised by Prince Albert, Henry Cole, Francis Fuller and other members of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce as a celebration of modern industrial technology and design.
		The Great Exhibition made a surplus of £186,000 which was used to found the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Science Museum and the Natural History Museum which were all built in the area to the south of the exhibition, nicknamed "Albertopolis", alongside the Imperial Institute.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Great_Exhibition (526 words)

	London 1851
		The Great Exhibition of 1851 was the first event of its kind, bringing together people from all over the earth in an environment of peace and intellectual stimulation.
		Conceived as an "Exhibition of the Works of all Nations", the Great Exhibition was the brainchild of Prince Albert and Henry Cole of England.
		The exhibits and the nature of the interior are discussed in the essay accompanying the image of the nave of the Crystal Palace, a photograph by Philip H. Delamotte.
	www.lib.umd.edu /ARCH/honr219f/1851lond.html (4208 words)

	The Great Exhibition Collection - Victoria and Albert Museum
		The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations was held in the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London, from 1 May to 15 October 1851.
		Among the results of the Exhibition were the establishment of the pre-cursor to the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Museum of Ornamental Art, in Marlborough House in 1852; and the reorganisation of the national Schools of Design.
		The Museum's first objects were selected from exhibits in the Great Exhibition and one of the key organisers, Henry Cole, became the first General Superintendent of the Department of Practical Art, the government body responsible for art education including the new museum.
	www.vam.ac.uk /collections/prints_books/great_exhibition (1382 words)

	wolverhampton exhibitions
		The Great Exhibition of 1851 seems to have taken all of the motives behind the earlier exhibitions and rolled them together - the Great Exhibition was to serve all the purposes of all the people.
		The 1851 exhibition had concerned itself almost exclusively with applied or industrial art, which is, on the whole, what we would call design and ornament.
		The French exhibition of 1855 also added another feature: the 1851 exhibition was housed in one huge building, the Crystal Palace; the 1855 exhibition was split between numerous pavilions; and this became the standard practice.
	www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk /articles/electronic/exhibs/wolverhampton_exhibitions.htm (2533 words)

	The Crystal Palace, or The Great Exhibition of 1851: An Overview
		Grand Panorama of the Great Exhibition of 1851 — Portion of the South Transept
		Punch on the Prince Consort and the Exhibition
		Medal Commemorating the Great Exhibition (1851) and the Festival of Britain (1951)
	www.victorianweb.org /history/1851/1851ov.html (226 words)

	The Crystal Palace/ The Great Exhibition of 1851 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Great Exhibition of 1851 in London was conceived to symbolize this industrial, military and economic superiority of Great Britain.
		Conceived by prince Albert, the Great Exhibition was held in Hyde Park in London in the specially constructed Crystal Palace.
		The millions of visitors that journeyed to the Great Exhibition of 1851 marveled at the industrial revolution that was propelling Britain into the greatest power of the time.
	www.victorianstation.com /palace.html (1412 words)

	Great Exhibition 1851
		The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations was the first international exhibition of manufactured goods, and it had an incalculable effect on the course of art and design throughout the Victorian Age and beyond.
		The profit from the exhibition was used to purchase land in Kensington, where several museums were built, including the forerunner of the Victoria and Albert Museum, which carries on the spirit of the exhibition in its displays devoted to art and design.
		As for the Crystal Palace itself, it was dismantled at the end of the exhibition and reassembled in Sydenham, South London.
	www.ourwardfamily.com /great_exhibition_1851.htm (674 words)

	The Great Exhibition of 1851: A Nation on Display by Jeffrey Auerbach (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Great Exhibition of 1851, held in London's spectacular Crystal Palace, was the first world's fair and the first industrial exhibition.
		Enhanced by dozens of illustrations, this wide-ranging account of the Great Exhibition reveals for the first time how the extraordinary occasion was conceived and planned, why it was such an unexpected success, what it actually meant to the millions of Britons who visited it, and what it came to mean in later generations.
		Auerbach suggests instead that the Great Exhibition became a cultural battlefield on which proponents of different visions of industrialization, modernization, and internationalism fought for ascendancy in the struggle for a new national identity.
	www.bigoldbuilding.com /892335.html (564 words)

	Victorian Era book review: The Great Exhibition
		It argues persuasively, that the Great Exhibition was given a multiplicity of meanings; both by its organisers, as a way of achieving support for the event, as well as by its audience.
		Faced with the uphill prospect of generating support for the Exhibition - Auerbach counters the notion that it was popular from the start - and funding difficulties, a situation not dissimilar to the Greenwich Dome, the organisers of the Great Exhibition carefully chose to accommodate public concerns and anxieties to a great degree.
		Once the Exhibition's popularity was assured, he moved to support it openly, in the knowledge that this would constitute a new venture for the monarchy, and that this was an urgent necessity in Britain at this time.
	www.history.ac.uk /ihr/Focus/Victorians/davisJ.html (2574 words)

	PBS : Queen Victoria : Low Graphics Site : The Changing Empire : Great Exhibition
		It was a spur to further annual exhibitions, and on June 30, 1849, at a meeting at Buckingham Palace that Albert summoned to plan a more ambitious project, a grand "Industry of All Nations" exhibition for 1851 was approved.
		With 13,937 applications from around the world to exhibit, and nothing on the horizon into which to put their work, a rescuer was urgently required, and one emerged -- Joseph Paxton, whose grand-scale greenhouse architecture at Chatsworth, country seat of the Duke of Devonshire, Prince Albert had long admired.
		The exhibition opened on the day scheduled Victoria, who formally opened the Great Exhibition, told her uncle Leopold, King of the Belgians, that it was "astonishing, a fairy scene.
	www.pbs.org /empires/victoria/text/empiregreat.html (1313 words)

	Contemporary Writings about the Great Exhibition
		Baring, Thomas, Esq., M.P. Illustrations of the Great Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations: Presented to the Library of The London Institution, by Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P., President.
		Claims that Britain is indebted to the Protestant Religion for the prosperity evident in the Exhibition.
		Placards Exhibited in Conspicuous Places Within the Crystal Palace, designed to Forward one of the Grand Objects of the Royal Commission--Warmly Responded to by The Queen, and Suitable dwelt Upon by the Archibishop, viz:--"The Strengthening the Bonds of Peace and Friendship Among All Nations of the Earth." London, 1851.
	www.victorianweb.org /history/1851/1851bib1.html (2183 words)

	South Pacific Taxidermy
		To house the Great Exhibition, a huge glass conservatory designed by self-made man Joseph Paxton, was erected in Hyde Park more than a third of a mile long and 66 feet high.
		Plouquet received rave reviews for his exhibits of birds and small and large game specimens, which at the time were amongst the finest examples of group taxidermy ever put on display to the public.
		The exhibition consisted of twenty-four elaborate display cases each approximately 2 feet 2 inches high and 1 foot 10 inches wide, arranged in rows and surmounted by canopies suspended from the ceiling to diffuse the light.
	www.southpacifictaxidermy.com /html/1851.htm (721 words)

	The Great Exhibition of 1851
		The events leading up to the Great Exhibition of 1851 were prompted by the success of the French Industrial Exposition of 1844, when it was suggested to the English Government that it would be most advantageous to British industry to have a similar exhibition in London.
		Albert’s plan was for a great collection of works in art and industry, ‘for the purposes of exhibition, of competition and of encouragement’, to be held in London in 1851.
		The Great Exhibition made a vast profit, and this was invested in land at South Kensington, on which the fine museums that still exist today were built.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /speel/otherart/grtexhib.htm (1990 words)

	Great Exhibitions (France)
		Impressed by the modernisation of London and the Great Exhibition of 1851, he set about modernising Paris and launched an exhibition in 1855 to celebrate the consolidation of his empire.
		The summit of exhibition pride was reached in 1900, when the exhibition spread along both sides of the river, linked by the magnificent Pont Alexandre III, named for the Tsar who had concluded the Franco-Russian treaty.
		The exhibition halls known as the Grand Palais and the Petit Palais were built for this exhibition and still remain.
	www.bl.uk /collections/westeuropean/frenchexhibitions.html (606 words)

	Page 1a Articles
		The Great Exhibition of 1851 was a great opportunity to prove how well it was maintaining the quality of glass and craftsmanship for which it had been known for so long.
		The success of the Great Exhibition was instrumental in a committee being appointed and given a Parliamentary grant of GBP5000, with which to purchase suitable objects for formation of a museum of manufacturers of a high order of excellence of design or rare skill in workmanship.
		The great difficulty with most glass is the fact it was not marked, as was the case with porcelain and fine bone china of this period.
	www.david-issitt.1hwy.com /catalog.html (21162 words)

	Taxidermy, Great Exhibition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Exhibitions chief proponent and cheerleader was Prince Albert.
		Bartlett exhibits an ingenious example of the art in the constructed figure of the Dodo - a bird which was once a native of Mauritius, and found there in considerable numbers at the beginning of the last century, but now, as far as is known, entirely extinct.
		When Peter the Great decided to establish the first Russian public museum of rarities and oddities, he already possessed certain objects which were to serve as a starting point for the museum's collections.
	www.taxidermy4cash.com /exhibition.html (3510 words)

	Great Exhibition - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Great Exhibition, name given to the huge display “...
		This ecstatic letter from Queen Victoria to her uncle, Leopold I of Belgium, describes the success of the Great Exhibition of 1851.
		The Great Exhibition of 1851 was prompted by the success of the French Industrial Exposition of 1844, when it was suggested to the government that...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Great_Exhibition.html (131 words)

	The Great Exhibition – 1851
		The Exhibition needed a specially built venue and the Royal Commission which was set up to manage the preparation, planning and running of the event considered numerous building designs and even prepared some of their own.
		On Saturday 1st May 1851 the inauguration of the Palace of Industry was graced by Her Majesty Queen Victoria.
		Entrance to the exhibition could be made with a season ticket which was purchased in advance or through the purchase of a single ticket at the entrance.
	www.museum.guernsey.net /great_exhibition__1851.htm (1821 words)

	Conway Stewart & Co Treasured Since 1905 -- Great Exhibition Limited Edition
		The Great Exhibition, also known as the Crystal Palace Exhibition, was held in Hyde Park London, during May 1 to October 15, 1851.
		The Great Exhibition of 1851 was conceived to symbolize the industrial, military and economic superiority of Great Britain.
		The Great Exhibition was opened on May 1st by Queen Victoria and was known by some as the eighth wonder of the world.
	www.penseller.com /pages/conwayexhibition2.htm (826 words)

	The Great Exhibition (UK world fair) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Great Exhibition, also known as the Crystal Palace Exhibition, was an international exhibition held in Hyde Park London, from May 1 to October 15, 1851 and the first in a series of World's Fair exhibitions of culture and industry that were to be a popular 19th century feature.
		The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations was organised by Prince Albert and Henry Cole as a celebration of modern industrial technology and design.
		A rebuilt and expanded version of the building that originally housed the Great Exhibition of 1851, it stood in Sydenham from 1854 until 1936, and attracted many thousands of visitors from all levels of society.
	www.jahsonic.com /GreatExhibition.html (460 words)

	What Was The Great Exhibition of 1851 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In just the five years prior to The Great Exhibition, the miles of railroad track in Britain had doubled, from around 3000 miles to more than 6200 miles.
		And while it was history's first true "world's fair," The Great Exhibition was in every way a stage for the display of Britain's industrial might.
		The optimism surrounding the Exhibit can best be summed up in the words of Prince Albert, the chief sponsor of the event.
	project1.caryacademy.org /1851/intro.htm (179 words)

	IDC Publishers - Early Printed Books from Egypt at the Great Exhibition, London 1851
		Many of these books were left behind at the end of the Exhibition and eventually found their way to the SOAS Library.
		Great care was taken by the editors of the Bulaq productions in translating new concepts into Arabic for the first time.
		This was partly because of the esteem in which Arabic was held by Muslims as the language of the Koran, and partly because of the venerable tradition of grammatical study and the heritage of classical translations from Greek and Aramaic.
	www.idc.nl /background345_7_17.html (549 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Trek fans get Great Exhibition
		A major Star Trek exhibition set for London's Hyde Park in December will be the biggest event there since the Great Exhibition of 1851.
		Exhibits from all 10 of the Star Trek films, including the forthcoming Star Trek Nemesis, due to open on 3 January 2003, will also be on display.
		About 130 containers of items for the exhibition arrived at a disused RAF base in Doncaster this week, and are now being moved down to London to prepare for the December opening.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/entertainment/2283428.stm (432 words)

	Fathom :: The Source for Online Learning
		The 1851 Great Exhibition in London's Hyde Park was an unprecedented display of Britain as an industrial and imperial power.
		etween May 1851, when it was opened in London by Queen Victoria, and October 1851, when it was closed by her consort Prince Albert, the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations attracted more than 6 million visitors, making it the most heavily attended event known to that date.
		The Exhibition also had a strong social and political agenda, in that it was intended to give the nation a sense of cohesion and loyalty in a period of unrest.
	www.fathom.com /feature/60964/index.html (1926 words)

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