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190 x 140 mm. A view in the gardens with a building (unidentified) in the background.

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350 x 274 mm. A view from the Botanic Gardens looking out across Farm Cove and the harbour, where ships are at anchor.

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153 x 207 mm. Mounted print, mount stamped 'Henry King, Sydney'. A view of a tree in the Botanic Gardens. Handwritten caption on reverse of mount reads 'Broad-leaved Tea-tree (Melacuca Leucadendra, Linn.) Native of Eastern Australia. Planted by H.R.H. the Duke of York in the Sydney Botanical Gardens, 22nd July 1881. Photo 1901'.

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205 x 152 mm. Mounted print, mount stamped 'Henry King, Sydney'. A view of a tree in the Botanic Gardens. Handwritten caption on reverse of mount reads 'Cabbage Palm (Linistrona Australis mart.) Native of Eastern Australia. Planted by H.R.H. the late Duke of Clarence in the Sydney Botanical Gardens, 22nd July 1881. Photo 1901'.

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153 x 203 mm. Mounted print, mount stamped 'Henry King, Sydney'. A view of a tree in the Botanic Gardens. Handwritten caption on reverse of mount reads 'Chrysophyllum Imperiale Benth. Native of the West Indies and Brazil. Planted by H.R.H. the late Duke of Edinburgh in the Sydney Botanic Gardens in 1868. Photographed 1901'.

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196 x 150 mm. A view of the exterior of the herbarium, a two-storey building completed in 1899. The herbarium was erected during J.H. Maiden's directorship.

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A view looking out over the gardens, and beyond the statue of Governor Phillip to Farm Cove. Government House can be seen at the extreme left of picture, with Fort Denison beyond it in the harbour. On the horizon North Head can be seen - the outmost entrance to the harbour.

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200 x 150 mm. An interior view of part of the museum, with display cases and specimens, and the walls lined with framed Botanical illustrations. With a figure standing in the background.

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204 x 153 mm. A slightly blurred print showing an interior view of the museum, with display cases and specimens, and a figure standing in the background.

Scope and Contents 202 x 154 mm. A view of the director, a bearded man, sitting at his desk in his office. The office walls are lined with bookshelves and maps. On the reverse of the print is written '3/01'. If these figures refer to the date of the photograph, the director pictured here would be Joseph Henry Maiden (1859-1925). Maiden was director of the Gardens from 1896-1924, and was the world authority on the Australian species of the Eucalyptus, as well as producing a prodigious variety of other...