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Author : Association for the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044108413998
Author : William Carey Richards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : New York Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations
ISBN : BL:A0018782865
Author : Association for the Exhibition of the,N Y ) Crystal Palace (New York
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1014574110
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 : Edwin G. Burrows
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780190681210
"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"--
Author : Georg Carstensen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : New York
ISBN : HARVARD:32044010516383
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : New York Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations
ISBN : UIUC:30112082607836
Author : Dr Diarmid A Finnegan,Dr Jonathan Jeffrey Wright
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781472444387
‘Global’ knowledge was constructed, communicated and contested during the long nineteenth century in numerous ways and places. This book focuses on the life-geographies, material practices and varied contributions to knowledge, be they medical or botanical, cartographic or cultural, of actors whose lives crisscrossed an increasingly connected world. Integrating detailed archival research with broader thematic and conceptual reflection, the individual case studies use local specificity to shed light on global structures and processes, revealing the latter to be lived and experienced phenomena rather than abstract historiographical categories. This volume makes an original and compelling contribution to a growing body of scholarship on the global history of knowledge. Given its wide geographic, disciplinary and thematic range this book will appeal to a broad readership including historical geographers and specialists in history of science and medicine, imperial history, museum studies, and book history.
Author : New York
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1021780200
Author : Edwin G. Burrows
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190681234
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 : Edwin G. Burrows
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190681227
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 : Bonny H. Miller
Publisher : Eastman Studies in Music
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781580469722
The first comprehensive biography of any American woman musician born before the Civil War brings to life a composer whose story is both old-fashioned and strikingly modern.
Author : William C. (William Carey) 18 Richards
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1361717750
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Author : Henry James
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813930817
This first fully annotated critical edition of A Small Boy and Others, which guides the reader through the allusive complexities of James's prose, offers fresh insights into the formative years of one of literature's most influential figures.
Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003682312
Author : New York (State). Legislature. Senate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1242 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : New York (State)
ISBN : UCAL:B3002494
