• 1851 LONDON (BIE World Expo):
• Shortcuts: Websites | Video | Audio | Pics | Guides | Exhibits | Music | Religion | Texts | Collections | Other
• Websites, Pages:
  • The Crystal Palace, or the Great Exhibition of 1851 (victorianweb.org/history/1851)
  • Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 (royalcommission1851.org)
    • History and Archive
  • The Great Exhibition 1851 (greatexhibition1851.blogspot.com)
  • The Crystal Palace Foundation (crystalpalacefoundation.org.uk)
    • Crystal Palace History
  • Crystal Palace Exhibition (at Victorian Era)
  • Crystal Palace Museum (crystalpalacemuseum.org.uk)
• Video:
  • Fair Enough: The London Great Exhibition, 1851 (A Meet MythAmerica Docu-Commentary) (YouTube, documentary, 1h03m41s)
  • Crystal Palace (History Hunters) (YouTube, TV documentary, 51m00s)
  • The Great Exhibition 1851, Presented by David de Haan (YouTube, documentary):
    • Part 1 (25m26s)
    • Part 2 (22m01s)
  • Virtual Tour of the Great Exhibition (The Royal Parks) (YouTube, lecture-documentary, 28m10s)
  • The Crystal Palace (Places – Lost In Time) (YouTube, documentary, 27m19s)
  • From Great Exhibition to Department Store: A Victorian Spectacle of Commodities and Social Lives (YouTube, lecture, 26m04s)
  • Exploring The Lost Crystal Palace | What Remains Today? (AdventureMe) (YouTube, documentary, 18m59s)
  • The Largest Building In The World (in 1851) (YouTube, documentary, 18m54s)
  • The Crystal Palace: An Omen of Things to Come (Megaprojects) (YouTube, documentary, 18m37s)
  • Exposición Universal de Londres 1851 (YouTube, documentary, 16m20s)
  • 1851 London: The Great Exhibition (YouTube, home documentary, 13m20s)
  • The Crystal Palace (Railway History) (YouTube, home documentary, 13m00s)
  • A Day at the Great Exhibition (documentary, 11m30s, at Boston College)
  • The Crystal Palace and the World Expo (YouTube, educational film, 10m54s)
  • Grande Exposição de Londres, 1851 (YouTube, pictures and text with added music, 8m06s)
  • The Crystal Palace: The Story of a Great Building (Amor Sciendi) (YouTube, documentary, 6m21s)
  • Victoria, Season 3 (YouTube, from the PBS Masterpiece series):
    • The Great Exhibition (6m18s)
    • Season 3, Episode 7 Preview (0m27s)
    • Season 3, Episode 7 Scene (1m04s)
    • Season 3, Episode 8 Preview (0m27s)
    • Season 3, Episode 8 Scene (0m50s)
    • Season 3, Episode 8 Scene: Emily Palmerston arrives in London (1m24s)
  • The Crystal Palace (YouTube, student project, 4m57s)
  • The Great Exhibition: What Really Happened (YouTube, student project, 4m47s)
    • Bloopers (3m36s)
  • The Great Exhibition of 1851: Crystal Palace (YouTube, student project, 4m07s)
  • The Victorians: The Great Exhibition 1851 (Lesson Starters) (YouTube, educational film, 2m57s)
  • Great Fire Destroys Crystal Palace (Pathé Gazette) (YouTube, newsreel, 1m58s)
  • YouTube Playlists:
    • Recreating the Great Exhibition of 1851 in VR (34 videos)
    • Crystal Palace (17 videos)
    • Crystal Palace 1851 Londres (13 videos)
    • London's Crystal Palace (13 videos)
• Audio:
  • The Great Exhibition of 1851 (In Our Time: History, BBC Radio 4) (YouTube, podcast episode, 41m52s)
    • In Our Time: History (BBC Podcasts) (YouTube Playlist, 71 audio videos)
  • The Great Exhibition of 1851: Industrialization and the Emergence of the Modern World (lecture, 38m21s, at Internet Archive)
  • The Great Exhibition of 1851 (podcast episode, 22m46s, at West Midlands History)
  • The Great Exhibition of 1851 (Knights of the Round Table) (podcast episode, 20m08s, at Listen Notes)
  • What was the 1851 Great Exhibition? (Sir Sidney McSprocket's Great British Minds) (podcast episode, 5m50s, at Fun Kids)
  • The Great Exhibition 1851 (We Are History) (podcast episode, 1h08m17s, at Apple Podcasts)
• Pictures:
  • Joseph Paxton's Crystal Palace at Sydenham (1854-1936) (YouTube, pictures with music, 9m46s)
  • Rare Photos of Industrial Exhibits At The Great Exhibition in London (1851) (YouTube, silent, 5m00s)
  • Rare Photos of Exhibits At The Great Exhibition in London (1851) (YouTube, silent, 4m12s)
  • The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All the Nations (with captions and added music, 3m54s)
  • Vintage Photos of Asian and African Exhibits at the Great Exhibition in London (1851) (YouTube, silent, 3m16s)
  • Great Exhibition of 1851: Crystal Palace (YouTube, with captions and added music, 3m13s)
  • Rare Photos of the Crystal Palace During The Great Exhibition of 1851 in London (YouTube, silent, 2m20s)
  • El Crystal Palace de Joseph Paxton: Recontrucción 3-D (YouTube, 3-D model with added music, 2m43s)
  • Dickinson's Comprehensive Pictures of the Great Exhibition of 1851:
    • Book at Internet Archive (230pp)
    • Pictures at British Library
  • Remembrances of the Great Exhibition (view book, 42pp, at Internet Archive)
  • Watercolours of the Great Exhibition (Victoria and Albert Museum) (at Wayback Machine)
  • Cartoons: Memorials of the Great Exhibition (series in Punch) (at John Leech Sketch Archive)
  • Categories at Wikimedia Commons:
    • The Great Exhibition
    • The Great Exhibition by HF Talbot
    • Memorial to the Great Exhibition
• Guides, Maps, Catalogues:
  • Guide-Book to the Industrial Exhibition (book, 175pp, at Internet Archive)
  • Routledge's Guide to the Great Exhibition: Containing a Description of Every Principal Object of Interest (book, 231pp, at Internet Archive)
  • The Great British Advertiser: An Illustrated Hand-Book of the Great Exhibition (booklet, 58pp, at Internet Archive)
  • Murray's Handbook for Modern London (book, 432pp, at Internet Archive)
    • The Crystal Palace, or Great Exhibition (book chapter)
    • 1851 Murray's Guidebook to London with Great Exhibition/Crystal Palace Chapter (YouTube, artifact description, 1m10s)
  • The Yorkshire Visitors' Guide to the Great Exhibition, and Also to the Principal Sights of London (booklet, 28pp, at Internet Archive)
  • Kelly's Ausstellungs Führer durch London: 1851 (book, 98pp, at Internet Archive)
  • Plan of the Building, Great Exhibition 1851 (map, at Internet Archive)
  • Location and ground plan of the Great Exhibition (maps and descriptions, at greatexhibition1851.blogspot.com)
  • Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Great Exhibition (books at Internet Archive):
    • Volume 1: Index, Intro, Raw Materials, Machinery (pp 1-478)
      • At Google Play Books
    • Volume 2: Manufactures, Fine Arts, Colonies (pp 479-1002)
      • At Google Play Books
    • Volume 3: Foreign States (pp 1005-1469)
      • At Google Play Books
  • The Crystal Palace and Its Contents (book, 416pp, at Internet Archive)
    • Artifact Spotlight: 1851 Great Exhibition Catalogue (YouTube, 1m59s)
  • Official Catalogue of the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, 1851 (book, 335pp, at Internet Archive)
    • At Google Play Books
  • The Art Journal Illustrated Catalogue: The Industry of All Nations, 1851 (book, 432pp, at Internet Archive)
• Exhibits, Shows:
  • Canada:
    • A Few Words Upon Canada, and Her Productions in the Great Exhibition (booklet, 12pp, at Internet Archive)
  • China:
    • An Authentic Account of the Chinese Commission, Which was Sent to Report on the Great Exhibition (booklet, 32pp, at Internet Archive)
  • Closing Day:
    • On the Closing of the Great Exhibition (poem, at Internet Archive)
    • The Exhibition is All U.P. (poem, satirical, at Internet Archive)
  • Dinosaurs:
    • The World's Oldest Dinosaur Theme Park?! The Crystal Palace Dinosaurs (YouTube, documentary "edventure", 7m47s)
    • Friends of Crystal Palace Dinosaurs
  • Fine Arts:
    • Gallery of Arts from the Great Exhibition of All Nations, 1851 (book, 154pp, at Internet Archive)
  • India:
    India at the Great Exhibition of 1851 (Masala History) (podcast episode)
  • Leistler Bookcase
  • New Jersey:
    • Report of the New Jersey Commissioners to the World's Fair (booklet, 37pp, at Internet Archive)
  • Prize for the Best Essay on the Moral and Religious Tendency of the Union of All Nations:
    • The Great Exhibition Prize Essay (book, 87pp, at Internet Archive)
  • Restrooms:
    • Spending a Penny for the Monkey Closet (article, at Findery)
  • Statue of Richard I
  • Stereoscopy:
    • The Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace (article, at Magic Lantern World)
    • The 19th Century Craze for Stereoscopic Photography: Professor Ian Christie (YouTube, lecture, 51m38s)
    • The Invention of the Stereoscope (YouTube, student project, 12m11s)
  • Tempest Prognosticator:
    • An Essay Explanatory of the Tempest Prognosticator in the Building of the Great Exhibition (book, 76pp, at Internet Archive)
  • United States:
    • American Superiority at the World's Fair (book, 148pp, at Internet Archive)
    • The American Exhibit at the Great Exhibition of 1851 (video, illustrated lecture, 33m59s, at Georgia Tech Library)
    • America at the Great Exhibition (article, at greatexhibition1851.blogspot.com)
• Music:
  • The Exhibition Polka (sheet music, 8pp, at Internet Archive)
  • World's Fair Polka (W. Vincent Wallace) (sheet music, 4pp, at Library of Congress)
  • Musical Instruments in the Great Industrial Exhibition of 1851 (book, 99pp, at Internet Archive)
  • Hector Berlioz:
    • Berlioz on the "Unison" Psalm of the Great Exhibition (The Musical Times and Singing Class Circular, October 1, 1851) (article, 4pp, at Internet Archive)
    • Berlioz at the 1851 Exhibition (article with pictures, at The Hector Berlioz Website)
    • Les Soirées de l'Orchestre: Vingt-et-Unième Soirée (book chapter, at The Hector Berlioz Website)
  • The Great Exhibition (Ruth Barrett, David Schweitzer, from the TV series Victoria) (YouTube, audio, 1m48s)
  • Crystal Palace: An Original String Score by Stuart Meyer Based on Pissarro's Painting (YouTube, audio and the painting, 2m45s)
• Religion:
  • Art and Faith, in Fragments from the Great Exhibition (book, 354pp, at Internet Archive)
  • Belshazzar's Feast in its Application to the Great Exhibition (booklet, 24pp, at Internet Archive)
  • The Closing of the Exposition: Extracts from a Sermon (booklet, 12pp, at Internet Archive)
  • The Great Exhibition, an Opportunity to Promote the Glory of God: A Sermon (booklet, 24pp, at Internet Archive)
  • The Great Exhibition, Here and Hereafter (booklet, 16pp, at Internet Archive)
  • The Great Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations, Viewed in Relation to Christianity: A Sermon (booklet, 17pp, at Internet Archive)
  • A Moral and Religious Guide to the Great Exhibition (booklet, 47pp, at Internet Archive)
  • Moral Aspects of the Great Exhibition: A Sermon (booklet, 26pp, at Internet Archive)
  • On the Great Exhibition of 1851: Nos. 17 and 18 of Occasional Sermons, Preached in Westminster Abbey by Chr. Wordsworth, D.D. (booklet, 38pp, at Internet Archive)
  • Our Sabbaths in Danger: A Sermon (booklet, 31pp, at Internet Archive)
  • A Sermon on the Great Exhibition, by the Rev. J.F. Denham (booklet, 16pp, at Internet Archive)
  • A Sermon Preached in the Church of St. George's, Hanover Square, on Sunday, Oct. 19, 1851: Being the Sunday After the Closing of the Great Exhibition of the Industry of all Nations (booklet, 19pp, at Internet Archive)
  • Sermons on the Great Exhibition by the Rev. George Clayton (booklet, 36pp, at Internet Archive)
  • The Temple of Truth: Its Wonders, Its Worshippers, and Its Witnesses (booklet, 12pp, at Internet Archive)
  • The Theology and Morality of the Great Exhibition (book, 20pp, at Internet Archive)
    • At Google Play Books
  • Thoughts on the Great Exhibition, and Other Poems (book, 56pp, at Internet Archive)
  • A Walk Through the Crystal Palace (tract, 8pp, at Internet Archive)
• Texts:
  • Books:
    • Alphabetical Epitome of the Great Exhibition [In Verse] (book, 76pp, at Google Play Books)
    • The Building Erected in Hyde Park for the Great Exhibition (book, 126pp, at Hathi Trust)
      • At Google Play Books
    • The Exposition of 1851, or, Views of the Industry, the Science, and the Government of England (Charles Babbage) (book, 337pp, at Internet Archive)
      • At Google Play Books
    • Glimpses and Gatherings During a Voyage and Visit to London and the Great Exhibition in the Summer of 1851 (book, 404pp, at Internet Archive)
    • La Grande Esposizione di Londra, Nos. 1-25 (periodical volume, 408pp, at Internet Archive)
    • The Great Exhibition of the World's Industry: Held in London in 1851: Described and Illustrated by Beautiful Steel Engravings (book, 160pp plus plates, at Internet Archive)
    • The Great Exhibition: "Wot is To Be" (1850) (booklet, 20pp, at Internet Archive)
    • Lettres sur l'Angleterre: Souvenirs de l'Exposition Universelle (book, 269pp, at Internet Archive)
    • The Lily and the Bee (book, 207pp, at Internet Archive)
    • The Philosopher's Mite to the Great Exhibition of 1851 (booklet, 34pp, at Internet Archive)
    • The Removal of the Crystal Palace (booklet, 12pp, at Internet Archive)
    • A Visit to the Great Exhibition, by One of the Exhibitors (booklet, 32pp, at Internet Archive)
    • The World's Show, 1851, or, The Adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Sandboys and Family, who Came up to London to "Enjoy Themselves", and to See the Great Exhibition (book, 242pp, at Internet Archive)
    • Great Exhibition (1851: London, England) (links to books, at University of Pennsylvania)
    • The Great Exhibition and Historical Memory (book chapter, 24pp, PDF, at Cal. State U. Northridge)
  • Poetry:
    • Brother Jonathan's Epistle to His Relations (poem, 25pp, at Internet Archive)
    • An Elegy for the Crystal Palace (poem, 15pp, at Internet Archive)
    • The Exhibition Poem (booklet, 23pp, at Internet Archive)
    • The Lay of the Palace (poem, 20pp, at Internet Archive)
    • On The Approaching Close of the Great Exhibition, and Other Poems (book, 99pp, at Internet Archive)
    • The Year 1851 (poem, 84pp, at Internet Archive)
  • Periodicals:
    • The Illustrated London News (newspaper volumes, at Hathi Trust):
      • January-June 1851
      • July-December 1851
    • The Illustrated London News, Supplement, March 6, 1852 (at Hathi Trust)
    • Het Londensche Nieuws: Gedurende de Tentoonstelling van 1851 (book, 200pp, at Internet Archive)
  • Articles:
    • Guide to London, with a Concise Account of the Great Exhibition, in English, French, and German (The Home Circle, No. 82, January 25, 1851) (article, 20pp, at Internet Archive)
    • The True Story of Prince Albert's Great Exhibition (article, at Town and Country Magazine)
    • The Great Exhibition: True story of 1851 Crystal Palace extravaganza at the centre of the Victoria season 3 finale (article, at inews.co.uk)
    • Britain's Great Exhibition of 1851 (article, at Thought Co.)
    • The Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace (and other items) (PDF, 24pp, at North Oakland Training Enterprises)
    • The Great Exhibition 1851 (article, at Historic UK)
    • Charlotte Brontë Visits the Great Exhibition (article, at My Time Machine)
    • The Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace (article, at Victoria Station, archived at Wayback Machine)
• Collections, Archives:
  • "the great exhibition of 1851" (search results, at Victoria and Albert Museum)
  • The Great Exhibition (Case 8, nos. 191-212) (at John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera)
  • Our Collections (at Crystal Palace Foundation)
• Other:
  • The World's Fair, or Children's Prize Gift Book of the Great Exhibition of 1851 (at Internet Archive)
  • The Great Exhibition 1851 (multi-media, at British Library)
  • Teacher Notes: The Great Exhibition (PDF, 6pp, at The National Archives)
  • HIST3225 The Great Exhibition of 1851 Part One: Art, Industry and the Making of a Nation (course description, at University of Southampton)
  • HIST3226 The Great Exhibition of 1851 Part Two: Legacy (course description, at University of Southampton)

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