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| Keywords: Charles Thurston Thompson, French Machinery, 1855.jpg This celebration of progress--iron and glass architecture and steam engines shown in powerful perspective--records the displays in the Palace of Industry at the 1855 Universal Exposition in Paris This world's fair of art and technology was the French response to the gauntlet thrown down by the British at the 1851 Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations in the Crystal Palace in London 1855 Salted paper print from glass negative 22 0 x 28 7 cm 8 11/16 x 11 5/16 in Institution Metropolitan Museum of Art object history exhibition history 266672 Embossed on mount recto LC below photograph PHOTOGRAPHED BY // C THURSTON THOMPSON ; inscribed in pencil on mount recto beneath image LR French Machinery credit line Purchase The Horace W Goldsmith Foundation Gift through Joyce and Robert Menschel 1992 accession number 1992 5030 PD-100 Interior of Palais de l'Industrie 1855 Exposition Universelle 1855 1855 photographs Photographs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Images of Paris from the Metropolitan Museum of Art 19th-century photographs of Paris Charles Thurston Thompson | ||||
