CRYSTAL PALACE, London (1851) Joseph Paxton, reconstruction with landscaping

Crystal Palace

PHILADELPHIA CENTENNIAL, birds eye view

Centennial Main Building. May

10, 1876opens to

the public.

first day 186,672 visitors.

unloading exhibits for main exhibition hall

installation in main exhibition hall, Henry Pettit and Joseph Wilson, architects

The Corliss Engine; 1400 horsepower, 40 tall, 200+ tons

Horticultural Hall, old postcard, HJ Schwarzmann, architect

Memorial Hall/Art Gallery

Opening Day

Catalogue

Exhibition Hall

Agricultural Building. James Windrim, architect

Agricultural building  under construction

Agricultural Building, interior

Women’s Building

Chinese exhibit: inspecting a vase

"Food Fishes of the Sea" US Gov't building.

PARIS, 1889

CHICAGO

World's Columbian Exposition Chicago, 1893

Daniel Brurnham & Frederick Law Olmstead

World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893 ground plan, Daniel Burnham & John Wellborn Root, architects, with F.L. Olmsted, landscape architect.

Old plan (J. Howe)

assembled architects, artists, and officials, May 1891 (D. Burnham and G. B. Post at left, H. Van Brunt leaning with cane, A. St. Gaudens 6th from right, C. McKim

3rd from right

Birds Eye View

Ferris Wheel

Ferris Wheel

panoramic photo from behind lagoon, showing train tracks

Panoramic detail -- left

Panoramic detail -- right

Transportation Building, 1891-1893, Adler & Sullivan, architects, interior

Court

Court

view toward the southern colonnade across the Grand Plaza. At left, the Agriculture Building; at right, the Palace of Mechanic

Arts.

Court

Court

Court

Court

Court’s fountain

Painting by Theodore Robinson

Grand Basin

Post card

MSI

Transportation Building, Louis Sullivan’s response

Transportation Building, "Golden Doorway," Louis Sullivan, architect. [J. Howe]Detail of entry