STATISTICS OF FIVE GREAT EXHIBITIONS.
The following statistics of the five great exhibitions have been collected by the Times-. —r“ The Great Exhibition of 1851, held in London, was opened on the Ist of May, and remained open for payment for 141 days. The number of visitors was 6,039,195, and £424,322 was received for admissions. The Exposition Universelle of 1855, at Paris, was opened on the 15th of May, and remained open 200 days, Sundays included. The number of visitors was 5.162,330 and £128,099 was received for admission. The International Exhibition of 1862, in London, was opened on the Ist of May, and remained open 171 days. The number of visitors was 6,211,103, and £408,530 was received for admissions. The Exposition Universelle of 1867, at Paris, was opened on the Ist of April, and remained open 217 days, Sundays included. The number of visitors was no less than 8,805,969, and £420,735 was received for admissions. The Universal Exhibition of 1873 at Vienna was opened on the Ist of May, and remained open 186 days, Sundays included ; the number of visitors was 6,740,500, and £206,478 was received for admissions. Thus the total number of visitors at
the five great International Exhibitions was 32,959,097, a greater number than the entire population of the United Kingdom enumerated at the Census of 1871, and £1,588,164 was received for admissions. The Progress Medal, as it was termed at Vienna, for the greatest number of visitors in one day belongs to the Exposition Universelle of Paris in 1867, when 173,923 persons passed through the turnstiles on Sunday, the 27th of October. The Vienna Exhibition was a good second with 135,674 on the closing day, Sunday, the 2nd of November; Paris in 1855 comes next with 123,017, on Sunday, the 9th of September. Then comes the London Great Exhibition of 1851 with what was then thought the extraordinary number of 109,915. on Tuesday, the 7th of October, four days before the close: and lastly, London in 1862 with 67,891 on Thursday, the 30th of October. We wait now for the Great Exposition at Philadelphia in 1876.
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Globe, Volume III, Issue 290, 17 May 1875, Page 3
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