History Collection

Choose from 125 images in our History Collection

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

Matilda Smith, botanical artist

Cochineal beetle harvest, by Eadweard Muybridge

William Barrons Tree Transplanter

Wardian case in use

Henry Ridley

Seedlings of Cinchona succirubra, India, 1861

William Dallimore

The Tea House, Kew Gardens

Waterlily Pond, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, ca 1900

Henry Ridley and rubber tree, Singapore

Palm House and Parterre

The Palm House

planting bulbs on the Broadwalk

Barrons Tree Transplanter

The Rhododendron Dell, Kew Gardens

Nathaniel Wallich FRS (28 January 1786 - 28 April 1854)

Kews women gardeners, November 1916

William Thiselton Dyer

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

Wardian Case

A View of the Palace from the North Side of the Lake

Richard Spruce

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

Walter Fitch, Llewllyn House, Kew

Kew Pagoda from the Refreshment Pavillion

History

Vegetables growing in the Demonstration Plot, RBG Kew, WWII

The Kew Gardens Question

Richard Spruce

William Andrews Nesfields plan of the Broadwalk at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Women gardeners, The Rock Garden, RBG Kew, World War II

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

Joseph Reardon pictured during service in WWI

Kew Guild dinner at the Holborn Restaurant, London, 1905

Frank Norman Howes, RBG Kew

Stella Ross Craig, botanical artist

Ann Webster, botanical artist, RBG Kew, 1951

John Hutchinson

The Royal Botanic Gardens Constabulary, ca 1910-1915

The first four Keepers of the Herbarium, Kew Gardens

George Appleby

The arrival of the flagstaff off the Sion Vista, Kew, circa 1916

Joey the Stanley Crane, Kew Gardens

Aircraft crash, Kew, 1928

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