3-003-852 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Progress of the Great Exhibition building: hoisting apparatus, 1861. The International Exhibition of 1862, or the Great London Exposition, was a world's fair held from 1 May to 1 November 1862, beside the gardens of the Royal Horticultural Society, South Kensington, London, on a site that now houses museums including the Natural History Museum and the Science Museum. From "Illustrated London News", 1861.