Archival Gallery

Choose from 30 images in our Archival Collection

Cochineal beetle harvest, by Eadweard Muybridge

Seedlings of Cinchona succirubra, India, 1861

Waterlily Pond, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, ca 1900

Henry Ridley and rubber tree, Singapore

The Rhododendron Dell, Kew Gardens

Richard Spruce

Richard Spruce

The Temperate House, 1861

Coffee harvest at Batu Cave Estate, Singapore, 1899

Directors House and Garden, Kew. Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer and Harriet Anne Thiselton-Dyer

The Palm House, Kew Gardens

Lalbagh Botanic Gardens, Bangalore, India

Cultivation of Cinchona succirubra trees on the Madulsima Cinchona Cos estate, Ceylon (Sri Lanka) 1882

Ringing the work bell, India circa 1910

House of Walter Haydon, curator of the botanic station at Kotu in Gambia

Japanese hemp production circa 1910

Preparing cinnamon, Sri Lanka, 1880 s

Drying coffee in the Straits Settlements, Southeast Asia, 1899

Preparing cinnamon quills for drying, Sri lanka, 1880 s

Men laden with Brick tea for Tibet

Drying or withering tea leaves

Packing tea in India

Bringing in the plucked tea leaves in India

Tea plantation, Far East

Harvesting tea leaves, India

C W Anderson with Cannonball tree, Couroupita guianensis photographed at the Botanical Gardens, Georgetown

Sir William Hooker

Miss Cotton posing on the leaf of giant waterlily Kew Gardens, 1923

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