Full details on the original painting can be found here: Hemy, was acquired by my grandfather just prior to WW1, while he was a steam engineer on SS Montoso, a freighter operated by the New York - Puerto Rico Steamship Company. This chromolithograph of "Women and Children First", a painting by Thomas M. Title: Building of Electricity & Electrical Appliances, by Childe Hassam, 1893, chromolithograph from World's Columbian Exposition Art Portfolio, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art This image is 128 years old, as of the Dec2021 uploading to my photostream. The rendering was done by Artist Childe Hassam.
Van Brunt designed the iconic Memorial Hall at Harvard University, the building still used for matriculation of first year (freshmen) students. The building was designed by Architects Henry Van Brunt and Frank Howe. This CWCE Building of Electricity (Shown above) may have been the FIRST building in America, ever totally lit up at night. Visitors were now able to visit the building at night the Melbourne Centennial International Exhibition was the first in the world to have night-time viewings. In 1888 electric lighting was installed in the Royal Exhibition Building (which is the only remaining 19th century exhibition hall in the world), for the Melbourne Centennial International Exhibition.
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