3-034-601 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Sketches in the International Exhibition at South Kensington, [London], 1871. 'Performing toys; the Automaton Zouave; the Wurtemburg Refreshment Stall; the Llama; a hundred cards in one minute; Printing the "Key"...a great diversity of entertainment is to be found. There is machinery in motion, belonging to different manufacturing industries; there are models of mechanical inventions and scientific apparatus;...there are moving toy-figures, of ingenious construction and marvellous performance, almost equal to the life...The automaton Zouave, standing in his sentry-box and blowing his trumpet for the regimental duty of the hour, is as tall as an ordinary French soldier...The printing-machine, which incessantly turns off hundreds of copies of the "Key to the Exhibition," and the card-cutting and cardstamping machine, will not pass unnoticed. In the department assigned to raw materials of our textile manufactures, the living animals, whose wool or hair is used for cloth, deserve respectful attention. The...alpaca and llama of South America are worthy of a glance and a caress, if the lady who is taking her little daughter round the Exhibition has time to spare. The...German refreshment-stall, invites the weary and thirsty to stop'. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.