INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
The following statement, showing the Size of the various great Exhibition buildings erected since 1851, and also of the one now bring erected in Melbourne, will bring more clearly before our readers the relative size of the “Garden Palace,” which is over onethird of the size of the first great Exhibition of 1851 .in London, and nearly onetfotirth •of that in Paris in 1850 l~- - - Space.
London Exhibition, 1851 ... . Sq. feet. 989,884 Dublin 1853 ... 205,000 New Yorlt ,, 1853 ... 249,691 Paris ,j 1855 ... 1,327,653 London ,j 1802 about 1,250.000 Paris ,i 1867 ... 3,559,943 Vienna ,, 1873 .:. 1,883,000 Melbourne ,, 1875 ... 78,000 Philadelphia ,, 1876 ... 400,000 Sydney „ 1870 ... 352,500 Melbourne ,, 1880 ... 250,000
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Kumara Times, Issue 941, 6 October 1879, Page 3
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109INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS Kumara Times, Issue 941, 6 October 1879, Page 3
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