Botanical gardens - Australia - New South Wales

Date: 1887

From: Hands, Alfred Watson, 1849-1927 :[Scenes in New Zealand] 1865, 1881, 1887

By: Hands, Alfred Watson (Rev), 1849-1927

Reference: A-254-045

Description: View of a coconut palm, an agave in flower (not an aloe) and a large fig tree Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 355 x 170 mm Provenance: Donation; Mrs M S G MacLeod, Tunbridge Wells, 12 August 1977

By: Paine, John, active 1875-1891

Reference: PA7-17-51

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: Between 1910-1913

Reference: PA5-0340

Description: Shows two women standing by the lake in the Botanical Gardens, Sydney, N S W ca 1910-1913. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 88 x 138 mm

Date: 1887

From: Hands, Alfred Watson, 1849-1927 :[Scenes in New Zealand] 1865, 1881, 1887

By: Hands, Alfred Watson (Rev), 1849-1927

Reference: A-254-043

Description: A view of a Seaforth Island palm in flower, with other trees beyond Other Titles - New South Wales Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 175 x 130 mm Provenance: Donation; Mrs M S G MacLeod, Tunbridge Wells, 12 August 1977

Date: 1844

From: Ashworth, Edward 1814-1896 :Sketchbook [1844]

By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896

Reference: E-042-038

Description: A broad path in the Sydney Botanic Gardens. A woman and small child and a separate group of two women are walking along the path. At the end of the path is a Norfolk pine. There are other trees on both sides of the path, one possibly a cabbage tree Ashworth spent three months in Sydney before going to China Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and sepia wash 186 x 135 mm Provenance: Purchased Sotheby's auction, London, 1966

Date: 1846-1919

From: Royal Botanic Gardens (Kew) : Records

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-10-55

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive. Finding Aids: See inventory for fuller description of the contents of this folder.

Date: [1880s-1890s?]

By: Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908

Reference: PA1-q-056

Description: Scenic views of New Zealand and Australia photographed by Frank Arnold Coxhead (F.A.C.). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Blue buckram cover, with spine title "New Zealand and Australia, 3360-3417", 31 x 27 cm

Date: 1885-1886

By: Mason, George Edward (Rev), 1847-1928

Reference: PA1-f-253

Description: Album of photographs collected by Rev G E Mason on a trip around the world in 1885-1886. Comprises photographs of California, Tasmania, Sydney, Ceylon, Egypt and New Zealand. In 1884 the Bishop of Lichfield recieved a request from the bishops of Christchurch and Auckland, New Zealand, to send clergy to conduct missions in their dioceses. To this end he invited Rev G E Mason, and Rev Charles Bodington to do the job. The two clegymen left Liverpool for the United States on the 4th of July 1885, spent a summer in New Zealand, and returned to England in September 1886. (Info from "Round the Round World on a Church Mission," Rev G E Mason, Society for the promotion of Christian knowledge, London, 1892). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: Purchase, 2005 Transfers: Collection as a whole received into Photographic Archive.

Date: 1958 to 1959

From: Williams, Edmund Gardner, b 1894 :Transparency slides of a trip to New Zealand and Australia

Reference: PA12-8816

Description: Transparency slides of Australia selected by Mr Williams as a representative collection to be used in a series of lectures on his return to England. This sheet shows views of Sydney. They include one taken from the top of the MLC Building; the outer harbour Heads from the ferry; The Gap; Manly Beach; Circular Quay; the Custom House; Sydney Harbour Bridge; Captain Cook Statue, the War Memorial and the Archibald Fountain in Hyde Park; a distant view of St Mary's Basilica; a view of streets from the Town Hall showing the Town Hall Lounge and Waltons-Sears building; the Sydney Botanical Gardens; Wynyard Park; the old New South Wales Parliament House; and Bondi Beach. These are followed by two images relating to the Camden Estate Rotolactor showing a group of visitors to the building and cows in a yard waiting to go into the "Rotolactor" rotary milking shed. It was the 2nd facility of its kind in the world, enabling larger-scale mechanisation of commercial dairy farming, opened in 1952, ceasing operation in 1972. The slides are not filed in his original numerical sequence, and are selected by subject relating to particular talks. Arrangement: These slides were selected by Mr Williams from his original sequence to create a representative collection of Australian images which he used in illustrated lectures on his return to England. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

By: Paine, John, active 1875-1891

Reference: PA7-17-52

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1960s]

From: Ingle, Alfred John, 1917-2003 :Colour slides of New Zealand and a world trip

Reference: PA12-7050

Description: Photographs of Sydney taken in the 1960s by John Ingle. Views include Hyde Park (listed as Queens Park in Ingle's index), with the Anzac War Memorial including an interior view of the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior, and the Captain Cook Statue; a magpie in the park; the Captain Arthur Phillips Fountain in the Royal Botanic Gardens (listed as the Flinders Monument in Ingle's index), and gorse in the botanic garden; Kings Cross from the botanic gardens, and from the Expressway; the Cahill Expressway; Government House; scaffolding on the Sydney Opera House, and on another building; fern on a rock wall; buildings in Martin Place; the harbour bridge from the Observatory; Botany Bay; reflected light on the waterfront; Sydney from North Shore; Sydney at night from Piedmont Bay. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies, 35mm

Date: 1888

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: WC-094/099

Description: Extensive view showing gardens with trees identified, the harbour, houses, people Quantity: 6 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour mounted as panorama 230 x 1735 mm

Date: 1838

By: Rodius, Charles, 1802-1860; Hughes, Sidney Gwynne, active 1838; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: B-053-007

Description: Shows in the foreground a fenced garden. Beyond the fence stand two European men on the left, with a group of Aborigines to the rightl. Ships lie in the harbour in the background From an earlier plate, lacking three additional ships, including the Australian. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Aquatint, 220 x 397 mm (image), 261 x 428 mm (plate-mark) on sheet 339 x 490 mm Provenance: Collection of Alexander Turnbull

Date: 1888

From: [Fox, William] 1812-1893 :Sydney. Public Gardens and Domain. Harbour and North Shore. 1888

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: WC-095

Description: Specimens of a palm, a cactus and a coconut tree in Sydney botanical gardens Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour forming part 2 of a six part panorama 237 x 286 mm

Date: 1888

From: [Fox, William] 1812-1893 :Sydney. Public Gardens and Domain. Harbour and North Shore. 1888

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: WC-098

Description: Botanical gardens with cabbage tree and group of women in hats and parasols in foreground, harbour with Fort Macquarie in middle distance and North Shore in background. Yachts and a steam and sailing ship in the harbour. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour forming part 5 of a 6 part panorama 237 x 285 mm

Date: 1888

From: [Fox, William] 1812-1893 :Sydney. Public Gardens and Domain. Harbour and North Shore. 1888

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: WC-094

Description: Couple with small girl standing in front of bottle tree and palm tree Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil, watercolour, Chinese white. Part 1 of a six part panorama 228 x 286 mm

Date: 1888

From: [Fox, William] 1812-1893 :Sydney. Public Gardens and Domain. Harbour and North Shore. 1888

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: WC-096

Description: Various agave specimens in foreground with park and government buildings in background Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour forming part 3 of a 6 part panorama 237 x 286 mm

Date: 1888

From: [Fox, William] 1812-1893 :Sydney. Public Gardens and Domain. Harbour and North Shore. 1888

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: WC-099

Description: Botanical gardens with Norfolk pine in foreground, headland curving to right with harbour and ship H.M.S.Orlando in middle ground, part of North Shore in background Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour forming part 3 of a 6 part panorama 237 x 286 mm

Date: 1888

From: [Fox, William] 1812-1893 :Sydney. Public Gardens and Domain. Harbour and North Shore. 1888

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: WC-097

Description: Government House with flag flying on hill in background, yacht on harbour in middle ground, part of Botanic gardens in foreground. Couple promenading by water. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour forming part 4 of a 6 part panorama 237 x 285 mm