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Crystal Palace, London – Vintage Photo Print

Crystal Palace, London, [between 1851 and 1860] — historic photograph
Crystal Palace, London, [between 1851 and 1860]. Historic photograph from the Daguerreotypes & Early Photography collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Crystal Palace, London. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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The Crystal Palace was built in Hyde Park for the Great Exhibition of 1851, a vast structure of iron and glass that housed exhibits from around the world and was later moved to Sydenham, south of London. This stereoscopic daguerreotype, made in the years between 1851 and 1860, shows the building as it stood in that decade, when it drew crowds and became one of the most photographed sights in England. The pairing of two nearly identical images was meant to be viewed through a stereoscope, producing a sense of depth in the glass walls and iron ribs. Its handwritten note on the back, giving a price of $2.00, hints at how such views were sold to visitors and collectors.

Created / published[between 1851 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : stereoscopic daguerreotype.
GenreDaguerreotypes 1850-1860.Stereographs 1850-1860.
NotesWritten on back: Crystal Palace, London $2.00. Purchase; Marian S. Carson; 1997; (DLC/PP-1997:105). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection (Library of Congress)
SubjectsCrystal Palace (London, England)--1850-1860.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,561 × 3,635 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi
Reference134_Crystal_Palace_London_1851

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