3-011-883 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Punjaub Exhibition Building at Lahore, [India], 1864. 'An exhibition of the products, manufactures and arts of the Punjaub is about to be held...The building is of brickwork...with two small annexes...There will also be a temporary annexe in...[which] it is also proposed to exhibit the processes of several of the most celebrated of the Punjaub manufactures, by having men actually at work at their respective trades, such as shawl embroidery work, wire-drawing, gold and silver brocade work (from Delhi), and gujerati-work (steel inlaid with gold)...Mr. C. Baines, C.E., of the Punjaub Railway, is the architect'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864.