I am writing the first spreadsheet from the American point of view about 19th century rotunda panoramas. These were the biggest paintings in the world, 50 x 400=20,000 square feet, housed in their own rotundas which were 16-sided polygons. Chicago in 1893 had 6 panorama companies and 6 panorama rotundas
The Reed & Gross company of Englewood, Illinois (a former suburb of Chicago, now a neighborhood) from 1885-88 produced units of BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG and JERUSALEM ON THE DAY OF THE CRUCIFIXION for cities from coast to coast, and beyond
Recently I secured the letters of panorama artist Edwin Willard Deming (1860-1942), from New York Public Library. Deming was a very good friend of Oliver Dennett Grover, who is mentioned many times in the letters. I want to share this info with interested members of the Grover family.Gene Meier,1160 Bailey Road, Sycamore, Illinois 60178 815 895 4099
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