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Maker(s):Unknown
Culture:British; English
Title:Canada
Date Made:1854
Type:Print
Materials:Color lithograph on paper
Place Made:Europe; United Kingdom; Great Britain; England
Accession Number:  MH SK C.A.15
Credit Line:Joseph Allen Skinner Museum, Mount Holyoke College
Museum Collection:  The Joseph Allen Skinner Museum at Mount Holyoke College
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Description:
A lithograph of the Great Exhibition of 1851 at the Crystal Palace, Hyde Park, London. The Canadian exhibit, showing agricultural and manufactured products, including a fire engine which could throw a jet of water 180 feet and of which the Canadians were very proud. Also a fine birchbark canoe. From Dickinson's Comprehensive Pictures of the Great Exhibition of 1851.

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