The Crystal Palace: why Should it Not be Open on the Afternoon of Sundays? Etc
Title | The Crystal Palace: why Should it Not be Open on the Afternoon of Sundays? Etc PDF eBook |
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Pages | 44 |
Release | 1855 |
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The Crystal Palace; why Should it Not be Open on the Afternoon of Sundays for the Recreation and Instruction of the Working Classes?
Title | The Crystal Palace; why Should it Not be Open on the Afternoon of Sundays for the Recreation and Instruction of the Working Classes? PDF eBook |
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Pages | 32 |
Release | 1855 |
Genre | Sunday |
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Why not open the Crystal Palace and Park on Sunday Afternoons? A few words of calm and unprejudiced enquiry. By a Clergyman of the Church of England, etc
Title | Why not open the Crystal Palace and Park on Sunday Afternoons? A few words of calm and unprejudiced enquiry. By a Clergyman of the Church of England, etc PDF eBook |
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Pages | 26 |
Release | 1855 |
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"The Busiest Man in England"
Title | "The Busiest Man in England" PDF eBook |
Author | Kate Colquhoun |
Publisher | David R. Godine Publisher |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781567923018 |
"Today one would be hard pressed to choose a "Pre-eminent Victorian," a perfect embodiment of the golden age of innovation and energy. But among the Victorians themselves, it was agreed that one figure towered above the rest. Joseph Paxton bestrode the worlds of horticulture, urban planning, and architecture like a colossus. This was the indispensable man, the self-taught polymath with a solution to every large-scale logistical problem. Rising quickly from humble beginnings, Paxton at 23 became head gardener and architect at Chatsworth, the estate of the sixth Duke of Devonshire. Under Paxton's hands, Chatsworth was transformed into the greatest garden in England, Britain's answer to the hanging gardens of Babylon. Paxton also edited garden periodicals, helped found the London Daily News, and was a Liberal MP for Coventry, but it was his design for the Crystal Palace, home of the Great Exhibition of 1851, that secured his immortality"--
The Crystal Palace. Reasons for and Against the Admission of the Public on Sundays, Etc
Title | The Crystal Palace. Reasons for and Against the Admission of the Public on Sundays, Etc PDF eBook |
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Pages | 48 |
Release | 1854 |
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Proposed opening of the Crystal Palace on Sundays; or, a Sabbath of amusement proved to be opposed to the people's health and happiness, etc
Title | Proposed opening of the Crystal Palace on Sundays; or, a Sabbath of amusement proved to be opposed to the people's health and happiness, etc PDF eBook |
Author | David Fenton JARMAN |
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Pages | 30 |
Release | 1852 |
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Why should the Crystal palace be closed on Sunday? By a layman
Title | Why should the Crystal palace be closed on Sunday? By a layman PDF eBook |
Author | Crystal palace |
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Pages | 22 |
Release | 1852 |
Genre | Great Exhibition |
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