Designing and Building the Crystal Palace

• The Engineers and the Crystal Palace
• The Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851
• Sir Henry Cole
• Before Paxton: The Committee's design for a structure to house the Great Exhibition
• Sir Joseph Paxton's original sketch of the Crystal Palace
• “The Industrial Palace in Hyde-Park. Mr. Paxton’s Lecture, at the Society of Arts”
• Pictures of the construction and machinery employed (homepage)
• Great Exhibition Building — Sectional View of Galleries

Artistic Relations and Effects

• The Crystal Palace's Influence upon Victorian Architecture and Architects
• The Great Exhibition and Moorish Architecture and Design in Great Britain
• York's 1866 Fine Art and Industrial Exhibition

Fine and Applied Arts Exhibited

• Hiram Powers' The Greek Slave
• John Absolon's View in the East Nave (The Greek Slave
• Edward James Physick's Pluto and Proserpine
• A Group of Indian Art Objects
• Sculpture displays in front of the Indian Pavillion
• Grand Panorama of the Great Exhibition of 1851 — Portion of the South Transept
• Stained Glass Gallery
• The Medieval Court
• Furniture
• Lady's Work Table (White and Parlby)
• Sideboard (Gutta Percha Company)
• Fauteuil [Chair] in Oak (Jeanselme)
• Pugin's Gothic-style stove
• A heating stove in the form of a suit of armor
• Storeroom with Artisans and Plaster Casts

Technology

• Machinery Section
• Agricultural Machinery
• Steam-Powered Tractor and Thresher
• Crampton's 4-2-0 Folkstone Locomotive

After the Move to Sydenham

• Photograph
• External view of the Roof and Vaulting
• Crystal Palace Park

Contemporary Responses

• Pictorial Representations
  • Opening of the Great Exhibition
  • The Illustrated London News Pictorial Guide to the Exhibition
  • Queen Victoria Visits the Great Exhibition
  • Punch on the Prince Consort and the Exhibition
  • John Leech's series of cartoon commentaries on the Great Exhibition
• Religious Contexts and Reactions

Science and Technology

• Dr. George Merryweather's 1851 "Tempest Prognosticator"

Bibliography and Other Resources

• Contemporary Responses
• Secondary Materials
• Reissues of Contemporary Works about the Great Exhibition
• Web Resources