THE PANORAMA(1916) by Alson Skinner Clark (1876-1949)
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THE ANNUAL EXHIBITION RECORD OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO 1888-1950 by Peter Hastings Falk(Sound View Press 1990),p.209
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I am writing the first book 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.