The Crystal Palace has hit 4k votes! Here are some of the images from the Great Exhibition of 1851 that inspired the project

My project recreates the Great Exhibition, the first ever world's fair which was held in London's Hyde Park in 1851. More than 100,000 items were displayed across ten miles of galleries, so figuring out what to recreate took some research and turned up some amazing stories. The elephant from the first image is wearing a lavish royal howdah from India - but the model itself is a stuffed African elephant because that was all the organisers could find at short notice. (They borrowed it from a...