c. 1860sLondon
Crystal Palace, Sydenham
Period stereograph of the palace after its 1854 re-erection at Sydenham.
Street photograph
c. 1860s·London
Crystal Palace, Sydenham
Period stereograph of the palace after its 1854 re-erection at Sydenham.
Street photograph · Burned
What this plate shows
Paxton’s iron-and-glass palace photographed in the park at Sydenham, fountains in the foreground, the long glazed nave beyond. A camera record of a structure that would burn in 1936. This is not the 1851 Hyde Park original in situ. Record the Sydenham building as photographed, then the fire as a later documented event.
- Image type
- Street photograph
- Structure
- Crystal Palace (Sydenham)
- Region
- Europe
- Documented completion
- 1851 in Hyde Park; re-erected at Sydenham 1854.
- Architect
- Joseph Paxton
- Present status
- Burned — Destroyed by fire on 30 November 1936. The plate shows the building standing. The status is burned — later, documented, not inferred from the image.
- Source
- Library of Congress stereo collection (1s08531).
- License
- Public domain.