Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/General Art and Industrial Exposition of Stockholm (1897)

General Art and Industrial Exposition of Stockholm (1897)

Original - Photochrom print of the General Art and Industrial Exposition of Stockholm on the island of Djurgården, 1897.

Reason

Photochrom of a late nineteenth century world's fair. The domed exhibition hall was designed by Ferdinand Boberg, who was a prominent Swedish architect. That and most other structures in the scene were subsequently destroyed. Restored version of File:Stockholm photochrom.jpg.

Articles in which this image appears

General Art and Industrial Exposition of Stockholm (1897), Djurgården

Creator

Detroit Publishing Co.

• Support as nominator --Durova³⁹⁰ 03:55, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
• Support Encyclopedic, high quality, good restoration. Jujutacular ^T · C 06:50, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
• Support Quality work. --Herby ^{talk thyme} 08:57, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
• Support. Can't fault the quality, and it's one of the more interesting historic restorations for me. Ðiliff «» (Talk) 14:13, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
• Support GerardM (talk) 15:17, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
• Support - I believe the correct term is "Wowee wow wow". --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 15:46, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
• Support wonderful. Don't happen to have anything from the Gothenburg exposition of 1923? —Krm500 ^{(Communicate!)} 03:56, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
  • Looked around. Unfortunately not. Maybe we could coax open a few archives in Sweden. :) Durova³⁹⁰ 04:06, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
• Support I didn't realise that "World Fair"s were still running. Noodle snacks (talk) 05:20, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
• Support Awesome, I've actually been at this exact location a few years ago when I went to the Nordic Museum (and Skansen, which isn't visible in the picture). :) Theleftorium 11:07, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
• Support Catches the eye. ❄ upstateNYer ❄ 14:17, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
• Support Satisfies all of the criteria Buggie111 (talk) 14:57, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
• Support--Mbz1 (talk) 20:57, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
• Support Fascinating to think that this was taken at such a time. Sir Richardson (talk) 17:27, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

Promoted File:Stockholm photochrom2.jpg --Staxringold _talk^contribs 18:41, 6 January 2010 (UTC)