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Shows & fairs, 1851

8 stories in Hunter Valley's papers

Maitland Mercury. Wednesday, February 19, 1851. Australian Society—industrial Exhibition

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Wednesday 19 February 1851 · page 2

THE Australian Society, with a laudable desire to obviate, as far as practicable, the disadvantages which the colony has sustained from timely arrangements not…

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Local News. Australasian Industrial Exhibition

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 17 May 1851 · page 4

On Wednesday a public meeting was held in the court-house, Maitland, for the purpose of making arrangements to assist in carrying out the objects of the Australasian Industrial…

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British Extracts. Exhibition of 1851

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Wednesday 21 May 1851 · page 4

On Monday the business of the Executive Committee was formally transferred from Palaceyard to the building in Hyde-park. Circumstances have somewhat delayed the completion…

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British Extracts. the Exhibition of 1851. (From the Atlas, April 5.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Wednesday 6 August 1851 · page 1

Her Majesty the Queen and Prince Albert visited the Crystal Palace on Wednesday afternoon, and examined attentively the immense preparations in progress for the opening next…

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British Extracts. Description and Plan of the Great Exhibition Building

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 23 August 1851 · page 3

At the outset let us explain the form of the building. In some respects it resembles a cathedral, its long avenues stretching from east to west, being intersected midway by a transept…

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Sydney News. the Great Exhibition. (From the Empire.) New South Wales

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 13 September 1851 · page 4

BIDWELL J. G., Government Commissioner of Lands, Zinana, Wide Bay, Australia.—A log of wood from the interior of Wide Bay district, north-east coast of Australia, the Briggalo of…

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The Morals of the Great Exhibition. (From Punch.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 18 October 1851 · page 2

The poet asks, "Is there any moral shut Within the bosom of the rose!" and finds that there are so many, that, to fix on…

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British Extracts. the Cosmopolitan Before and After the Exhibition

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 6 December 1851 · page 2

DEAR MR. PUNCH—I like the Great Exhibition very much; there are some things in it that are really beautiful; and if you would confine your remarks to them, I shouldn't mind. But I…

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