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This photograph of the exhibition building shows the vast enclosure which is virtually empty except for an elm tree which was accommodated during the construction.<br><br><b>Materials & Making</b><br>Benjamin Brecknell Turner (1815-1894) began practising photography in 1849 according to the technique patented in 1841 by the British inventor W. H. Fox Talbot (1800-1877). Turner's photographs were 'contact' printed from paper negatives (known as 'calotypes') of the same size, 27 by 39 centimetres. 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