Helpful Sites

I found this borderline (some deciphering required) great website that is a full text document of The Official Discriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Great Exhibition.

Full Text of Official Catalogue

The only problem with the text is it has been scanned from it's original version and directly converted to plain text, so it shows imperfections....

for example the word "shown," in the physical catalogue, may have been damaged so when it scans the computer reads it as "sliown."

However it could be a decent starting place if I "ctrl-f" (control-find) my topic.

For example, there are 21 hits on the word "dishes."

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I also found this beautiful illustrated book describing the contents of the exhibition. Again, I recommend using ctrl-f to find useful excerpts.

The Crystal Palace and It's Contents

It had this picture: (might be something I look into)

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Lastly, (for now) is an audio clip that explains what it would be like to enter the Crystal Palace. The first 4 minutes are beautiful to listen to, the last 2 minutes actually briefly mention a little bit from Gillooly's article, about the arrangement of the exhibits in relation to geography.

Listen

(I found this clip from "Learning Victorians")


[Victorian Literature]