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Crystal Palace  Dickinson's picture of the ‘India’ section at the Great Exhibition, in London, England, in 1851. The building in which it was staged, the Crystal Palace, was 564 m/1,851 ft long (deliberately, to mark the year), 139 m/456 ft wide, 20 m/66 ft high, and enclosed a floor space of 74,320 sq m/800,000 sq ft. There were more than 13,000 exhibitors. | Glass and iron building designed by Joseph Paxton, housing the Great Exhibition of 1851 in Hyde Park, London. It was later rebuilt in modified form at Sydenham Hill in 1854 but burned down in 1936. |
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