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Historical articles

  • Crystal Palace fire photographs
  • In Remembrance
  • Leaving Hyde Park, 1851
  • Raising the first Pillar at Sydenham, 1852
  • The rebuilding at Sydenham, 1852-1854
  • Open again, 1854
  • Bankruptcy, 1909
  • Map of Crystal Palace Park 1911
  • Disaster strikes, 1936
  • Change of ownership, 1951
  • Crystal Palace Timeline 1913 - 2005
  • Raffaele Monti sculpture archive
  • Crystal Palace (Low-Level) Railway Station
  • Crystal Palace Aquarium Co Ltd
  • History of the Crystal Palace (part 1)
  • History of the Crystal Palace (part 2)
  • Acts of Parliament covering the Sydenham Crystal Palace and grounds 1853 - 1990
  • Crystal Palace Royal Charters
  • The complete guide to crystal palaces
  • Water colour pop-up card

Local News

  • South-facing Festival August 2021
  • Houses, Cats and Nightingales at the Crystal Palace
Hundreds of books, DVD's, postcards prints and greeting cards about the history of the Crystal Palace

Water colour pop-up card

This water colour pop-up card was published in 1873 by Benjamin Sulman.

The card represents Crystal Palace in winter after it had moved to Sydenham, South London from its previous home in Hyde Park where it housed the Great Exhibition of 1851.

The original image featured in the "Movers and Shakers: Geoffrey Chaucer to Elton John" exhibition.

Catalogue ref: Copy 1/121 f357

Crystal Palace in winter

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