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- 5 Dec 2007 04:22
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: A Walk through the Nave of the Crystal Palace 1854
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THE GREEK COURT We enter the court through the central opening. This portico represents part of a Greek agora, or forum, which was used as a market, and also for public festivals, for political and other assemblies. https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2AnCDPP4-cU/WslmYaQqQvI/AAAAAAAADIA/gIeinJgAjoUIfSwBpgaa...
- 5 Dec 2007 03:44
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: A Walk through the Nave of the Crystal Palace 1854
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- 5 Dec 2007 03:23
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: A Walk through the Nave of the Crystal Palace 1854
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INTRODUCTION TO THE FINE ARTS COURTS. One of the most important objects of the Crystal Palace is to teach a great practical lesson in art. Specimens of the various phases through which the arts of Architecture and Sculpture have passed, are here collected, commencing from the earliest known period ...
- 5 Dec 2007 03:20
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: A Walk through the Nave of the Crystal Palace 1854
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A Walk through the Nave of the Crystal Palace 1854
This is still a sort of illustrated guide to the Crystal Palace building and grounds, but I thought it might be an idea to start with the background to why the Palace came to the highest point in South London. I have started a seperate thread on the actual building of the Crystal Palace, starting wi...
- 5 Dec 2007 00:23
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: Crystal Palace in Colour by Thomas Nelson & Sons
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- 4 Dec 2007 23:20
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: Crystal Palace in Colour by Thomas Nelson & Sons
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- 4 Dec 2007 21:59
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: Crystal Palace in Colour by Thomas Nelson & Sons
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Crystal Palace in Colour by Thomas Nelson & Sons
NELSON'S PICTORIAL GUIDE-BOOKS FOR TOURISTS THE CRYSTAL PALACE WITH TWENTY-FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS T. Nelson and Sons, London, Edingburgh, and New York. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ibd/20071128/bs_ibd_ibd/20071128lands02 I hate scanning, and these are truly disappointing. Some come from a book, and the other...
- 4 Dec 2007 19:43
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: Crystal Palace in Colour.
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- 4 Dec 2007 19:37
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: Crystal Palace in Colour.
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- 4 Dec 2007 19:19
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: original letter from Crystal Palace Manager
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- 4 Dec 2007 19:13
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: Crystal Palace in Colour.
- Replies: 22
- Views: 37209
Not me, though presumably whoever is offering the giclee print (you don't say who) could sell you one you could re-scan. http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff70/boringname_photos/CrystalPalace-WilliamWhiteWarren.jpg By William White Warren, I have no idea if this is still on loan to the National Gal...
- 4 Dec 2007 15:08
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: Crystal Palace in Colour.
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- 4 Dec 2007 02:51
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: Crystal Palace in Colour.
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- Views: 37209
- 4 Dec 2007 01:50
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: QUIZ: What's rare about this Crystal Palace view?
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- 3 Dec 2007 06:36
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: The Festival of Empire 1911 by publisher Campbell Gray
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The Festival of Empire 1911 by publisher Campbell Gray
The firm of Campbell and Gray, reproduced photographic images of the Festival of Empire of 1911, and the Pageant of London at Crystal Palace in Sydenham, as Postcards, Photographic prints and Booklets. More on postcards at the bottom of this thread . . . . Official Photographic View Book Festival of...
- 3 Dec 2007 06:10
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: Day & Son Portfolio of Crystal Palace Prints
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Day & Son Portfolio of Crystal Palace Prints
The frontispiece.
Anyone got an A3 scanner, this was my fifth attempt to fit it on my scanner without it going wonky!
Will add the rest later, they end wth the dinosaurs.
- 3 Dec 2007 05:54
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: Crystal Palace in Colour.
- Replies: 22
- Views: 37209
Crystal Palace in Colour.
http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff70/boringname_photos/baxterprint.jpg "George Baxter (1804 - 1867) is regarded as the "Inventor" of colour printing. The Baxter process, which he patented in 1835, involved an initial metal keyplate and up to 20 wood or metal blocks to apply each i...
- 3 Dec 2007 03:24
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: original letter from Crystal Palace Manager
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original letter from Crystal Palace Manager
Original letter from Sir Henry Buckland Manager of the Crystal Palace when it burned down.
- 29 Nov 2007 15:57
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: Unknown Crystal Palace views
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Views 5 and 6, I bought from World of Stereoviews, his page for exhibitions are here, though he removes the ones sold. http://www.worldofstereoviews.com/greatexhibitionpage1.htm View 6 has been floating round ebay for a while. View 7 I bought from ebay seller “found-in-Australia” in August of 06, ch...
- 29 Nov 2007 07:18
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: Read the original guide to the Crystal Palace of 1854
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Read the original guide to the Crystal Palace of 1854
Now availiable on google books, the original "Guide to Crystal Palace and Park" by Samuel Philips, availiable as a PDF or plain text. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=WlA4AAAAMAAJ&printsec=titlepage&dq=a+general+guide+to+the+crystal+palace+and+park#PPP7,M1 Scanned by the Universi...