Zone d'identification
Cote
Titre
Date(s)
- 1900 - 1906 (Production)
Niveau de description
Étendue matérielle et support
47 photographs plus duplicates in pockets, 1cm
Zone du contexte
Nom du producteur
Notice biographique
Gardener and Foreman at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh before becoming Secretary and Garden Superintendent of the Horticultural Society in Alexandria, Egypt between 1906 and 1912. Skilled photographer. Wrote Book of the Winter Garden in 1906. Son of David Taylor Fish (1824-1901)
Histoire archivistique
Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert
Zone du contenu et de la structure
Portée et contenu
47 photographs / studies of members of RBGE staff, mainly gardeners / probationer gardeners, some named, but many not.
Names include David Sydney Fish (x2), W. Douglas, Murray, David Wilkie, James D. McKenzie, James Esplin, D.M. Ross, William Ritchie, H.B. Anderson, Andrew R. Cosh, Thomas Sherlock, Douglas Law, William Fernie and Alexander Reid.
Évaluation, élimination et calendrier de conservation
Accroissements
Mode de classement
photographs are arranged by the number on their back - unfortunately any list providing more details for this list, such as subject or photographer (Fish cannot have been the photographer for all of them) has been lost.
Zone des conditions d'accès et d'utilisation
Conditions d'accès
Collection is open to researchers by appointment, see (right click, open link in new tab:) https://www.rbge.org.uk/science-and-conservation/library-and-archives/visiting-the-library/
Conditions de reproduction
Permission required from RBGE.
Langue des documents
- anglais
Écriture des documents
Notes de langue et graphie
Caractéristiques matérielle et contraintes techniques
Instruments de recherche
Zone des sources complémentaires
Existence et lieu de conservation des originaux
Existence et lieu de conservation des copies
Unités de description associées
Note de publication
some images were used in "How the Garden Grew" by Leonie Paterson, RBGE, 2013