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1851 Exhibition Correspondence

Commissioner’s correspondence relating to the Great Exhibition of 1851

MISSING FROM BOX: Great Exhibition of Industry, 1851

RC/A/1850/248

Plan and details of building. 16 lithographs of plans, elevations and sections of Contracts A-F. Prepared to convey general information of the proposed works. n.d. [1850]. 2 copies. [The complete contract drawings have not survived]. [These are plans of the Building Committee's design for the Exhibition building. The design was later rejected in favour of Joseph Paxton's].