Black And White Gallery

Choose from 148 images in our Black And White Collection

Marianne North at her easel, circa 1883

Eleanor Morland, Gertude Cope and Alice Hutchings, Kew gardeners, 1898

Cochineal beetle harvest, by Eadweard Muybridge

William Barrons Tree Transplanter

Seedlings of Cinchona succirubra, India, 1861

Henry Ridley

William Dallimore

The Tea House, Kew Gardens

Waterlily Pond, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, ca 1900

Henry Ridley and rubber tree, Singapore

Cinera cum flore

The Rhododendron Dell, Kew Gardens

Kews women gardeners, November 1916

Matilda Smith, botanical artist

Richard Spruce

The Birdman, Mr Allaway, 1901

Women gardeners put on their clogs ready for work, World War II

Annie M Gulvin

Japanese Gateway, Kew Gardens c.1910

Fructus artischochi

Portrait of Sir William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865)

Quercus obtusiloba, 1795-1800

Cymbidium elegans, 1838

Cattleya superba, 1838

Garden visitors inspect the Demonstration Plot at RBG Kew, during WWII

Walter Fitch, Llewllyn House, Kew

William Thiselton Dyer

Kew Pagoda from the Refreshment Pavillion

Richard Spruce

Marianne North, photographed by Julia Margaret Cameron

Vegetables growing in the Demonstration Plot, RBG Kew, WWII

The Kew Gardens Question

Photograph of a Wardian Case, 19th century

Harvesting and processing cinchona bark on a Java plantation

The Temperate House, 1861

Fragaria species, 1900

Giant cereus, 1854

Carnegiea gigantea, 1854

Carnegiea gigantea, 1862-1865

Metroxylon sagu, 1750

Drunken date palm from Gerard The Herball, 1636

Cocos nucifera, coconut palm, 1678

Areca catechu, 1636

A cinchona forest in Latin America, 1880

World War II, Kew Gardens: Talk at the Demonstration plot about growing your own food

Joseph Reardon pictured during service in WWI

Frank Norman Howes, RBG Kew

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