THE OTTAWA FREE TRADER,Saturday,January 3,1885,p.8
C.H.Hobart,the photographer, now a resident of Chicago,but here on a visit to his parents,showed us some fine views of the Pittsburg Landing and the Shiloh battle field which he has recently taken . It seems that a party of gentlemen,including Colonel T.Lyle Dickey,General Prentiss,General Tuthill and others contemplate the reproduction of the battle (BATTLE OF SHILOH cyclorama) similar to the GETTYSBURG (cyclorama) in Chicago and have employed him to do the photographing.The work will cost about $125,000,and will take about six months to complete it.The pictures are excellent.Charley knows how to do it.//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.