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Author : Crystal Palace Company (Sydenham, London, England)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Crystal Palace and Park in 1853 written by Crystal Palace Company (Sydenham, London, England) and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : London Crystal Palace Company (Sydenham
Publisher : Franklin Classics
ISBN 13 : 9780343573010
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (73 download)
Download or read book The Crystal Palace and Park in 1853 written by London Crystal Palace Company (Sydenham and published by Franklin Classics. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : John McKean
Publisher : Phaidon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780714829258
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (292 download)
Download or read book Crystal Palace written by John McKean and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume covers one of the most influential buildings of the 19th century. Joseph Paxton's Crystal Palace was the first public building to omit references to the past. Amid the historicist debates and battle of the styles of mid-19th-century Britain, Paxton's design was rational and straightforward.
Author : Crystal Palace Company (Sydenham, London, England)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (72 download)
Download or read book The Crystal Palace and Park in 1853 written by Crystal Palace Company (Sydenham, London, England) and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edwin G. Burrows
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190681217
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
Download or read book The Finest Building in America written by Edwin G. Burrows and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Built in 1853 in New York's Bryant Park and immediately pronounced the most beautiful structure in America, the Crystal Palace was intended not simply to emulate but rival the famous Victorian landmark in London's Hyde Park. As with its English counterpart, however, its beauty was ephemeral. It caught fire, and on October 5, 1858, "great waves of lurid light" overtook spectators and those rushing to save it. Within thirty minutes, the beloved dome was nothing but a heap of smoldering debris. In his latest book, Edwin G. Burrows, winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for History and co-author of GOTHAM: A History of New York to 1898, offers a memorable and elegiac look at the Crystal Palace. While it didn't match in dimension Robert Paxton's London original--the scale of which was truly colossal--the New York version became a beloved landmark almost from the instant of its creation. Centerpiece of the 1853 World's Fair, it was home to numerous exhibitions and became a showplace for displaying the growing industrial might of the nation. Walt Whitman rhapsodized about it as "Earth's modern wonder, History's Seven outstripping." Its sudden loss provoked intense mourning-matched only perhaps by the razing of the old Penn Station a century later-and then gradually it slipped from memory. The Finest Building in America will evoke the Crystal Palace's life and times, replete with beautiful period images. The first book-length account of the building's short but glorious life, Burrows book aims to restore it in the minds and hearts of New Yorkers and New York aficionados and fans everywhere"--
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Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Crystal Palace and Park in 1853 written by and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edwin G. Burrows
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190681225
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
Download or read book The Finest Building in America written by Edwin G. Burrows and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-10 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When first opened to the public in 1853, New York's Crystal Palace created a sensation. Those who had seen London's Crystal Palace, the structure it was openly intended to emulate, argued that America's copy far surpassed it. Built in what is today Bryant Park, a four-acre site between 40th and 42nd Streets, the colossus of glass and steel indeed seemed poised to displace the British original in worldwide fame. Walt Whitman pronounced it "unsurpassed anywhere for beauty." Young Samuel Clemens--not yet Mark Twain--called it a "perfect fairy palace." Many perceived it as putting America, still in the thrall of European culture, on the map. "To us on this side of the water," wrote newspaperman Horace Greely, who had also visited London's Crystal Palace, "it was original." Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Edwin G. Burrows offers the tale of what was proclaimed the country's "finest building." Centerpiece of the 1853 World's Fair, the New York Crystal Palace, like its London counterpart, was intended to display the country's latest technological achievements--as well as a few dubious cultural artifacts. But its primary function was simply to be seen and admired by the crowds that thronged to it; its very existence caused patriotic breasts to swell. And then suddenly it was gone. On October 5, 1858, merely five years after its construction, the Crystal Palace caught fire. Despite frantic attempts to save it, the magnificent dome was engulfed and within thirty minutes the entire structure reduced to a heap of smoldering debris, through which for days afterward bereft New Yorkers picked for mementos. With sumptuous images and lively storytelling The Finest Building in America brings back to life an extraordinary monument, one that briefly but wholeheartedly captured the imagination of a country, giving form to its dreams and ambitions, and then vanishing from view.
Author : Richard Owen, Sir
Publisher : London : Crystal Palace Library
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 ( download)
Download or read book Geology and Inhabitants of the Ancient World written by Richard Owen, Sir and published by London : Crystal Palace Library. This book was released on 1854 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sir Joseph Paxton
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Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)
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Author : Wendy Heyman-Marsaw
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 178705182X
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (87 download)
Download or read book Memoirs from Mrs. Hudson's Kitchen written by Wendy Heyman-Marsaw and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mrs. Hudson is possibly the most famous landlady in literature. Presiding over the comings and goings at 221B Baker Street, she saw many clients, villains and Baker Street Irregulars during the tenancy of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. This series of columns, thoughts, recipes and memoirs are from a long-running column in the Sherlockian journal Canadian Holmes. In it the author, Wendy Heyman-Marsaw, puts herself in Mrs. Hudson’s shoes, up and down the 17 steps, and recounts not only the time and era but the food, dining and eating habits of Victorian England. This book explores the meals Mrs. Hudson would have prepared and served her two famous lodgers, what food they would have had while on rail journeys or eaten at hotels around London or inns around England. You will also learn about Mrs. Hudson herself, her husband and even her views towards women’s roles and rights in Victorian times. With many illustrations from the Strand Magazine, readers will get a rare peek inside Victorian life.
Author : Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Views of the Crystal Palace and Park, Sydenham written by Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Morrison H. Heckscher
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 0300136692
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Creating Central Park written by Morrison H. Heckscher and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2008 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year 2008 marks the 150th anniversary of the design of Central Park, the first and arguably the most famous of America’s urban landscape parks. In October 1857 the new park’s board of commissioners announced a public design competition, and the following April the imaginative yet practicable "Greensward” plan submitted by Calvert Vaux and Frederick Law Olmsted was selected. This book tells the fascinating story of how an extraordinary work of public art emerged from the crucible of New York City politics. From William Cullen Bryant’s 1844 editorial calling for "a pleasure ground of shade and recreation” to the completion of construction in 1870, the history of Central Park is an urban epic--a tale not only of animosity, political intrigue, and desire but also of idealism, sacrifice, and genius.
Author : Samuel Phillips
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Guide to the Crystal Palace and Park written by Samuel Phillips and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Steve McCarthy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781877754036
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (54 download)
Download or read book The Crystal Palace Dinosaurs written by Steve McCarthy and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Owen Jones
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 618 pages
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Download or read book The Grammar of Ornament written by Owen Jones and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gideon Algernon Mantell
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Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Geology of the South-east of England written by Gideon Algernon Mantell and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
