Title

Provincial Industrial Exhibition of Canada, held at Montreal - the South Hall, 1850. Creator: Smyth.

Caption

Provincial Industrial Exhibition of Canada, held at Montreal - the South Hall, 1850. Display '...principally devoted to agricultural produce and machinery...Here are bundles of wheat, barley, oats, peas, and beans, in the straw; as well as large quantities of those grains in bags; fine specimens of Indian corn; barrels of flour, kegs of butter, pearlashes; barrels of beef, pork, and hams; packets of hops, cheeses, honey, starch, bees-wax, sugar...The centre of [the] Hall is given to the Horticultural Society, and is occupied by an octagon stand...'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM22A36_194

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NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

46,8Mb (5,7Mb) / 16,5in x 11,0in / 4960 x 3299 (300dpi)

Keywords

food female women woman people male interior event man men produce vegetables vegetable industry country large guy British Canada Canadian display big industrial Quebec Montreal location Victorian century empire Britain inside pumpkin pumpkins newspapers press cheese concept cheeses barrel barrels exhibition butter squash B&W visitors visitor huge enormous engraved engraving squashes 19th century Indoors black & white black and white B W nineteenth century The Print Collector British Empire cultural event Ile de Montreal Illustrated London News TGN ILN newspaper Smyth 19th-century