History Gallery (page 5)

Choose from 251 images in our History Collection

Henry Ridley

John Davenport Snowden and wife, Uganda 1916

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

Coffee harvest at Batu Cave Estate, Singapore, 1899

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

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

The Palm House, Kew Gardens

Harvesting tea leaves, India

Lalbagh Botanic Gardens, Bangalore, India

Ernest Henry Wilson (1876-1930)

Adrien Rene Franchet - 1834-1900

Pere Armand David - 1826-1900

Emile Bretschneider M.D. 1833-1901 - St Petersburg Nov 15 1883

D. Oliver, Otto Stapf, W. Botting Hemsley, J. G. Baker

Victor Lemoine c.1899

Ernest Henry Wilson - May15th 1922

W. Botting Hemsley

Joseph Rock 1884-1962

Ernest Henry Wilson - May15th 1922

Joseph Rock and Elizabeth McClintock

Henry Fletcher Hance

Ernest Henry Wilson

Maurice de Vilmorin

Pioneers Cabin at the base of a Sequoiadendron giganteum

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

Arthur Hill, Director of Kew 1922-41

Richard Spruce

Alexander Wollaston

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

Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker

J. A.Simon, gardener at Kew in the 1940 s

Sir William Hooker

Some of Kews female staff, 1942

Female gardener, RBG Kew, World War II

Portrait of Charles Darwin, 1868, by Julia Margaret Cameron

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

Women Gardeners (drinking tea) 1939

Women gardeners at Kew, 1939-1945

Kaspar Maria von Sternberg, 1832

Available as Licensed Images

Choose your image, Select your licence and Download the media