Carte de visite Photographic Collection

The RHS Lindley Library houses a collection of over 700 carte-de-visite photographs including some cabinet cards, mostly of 19th-century botanists and gardeners, many of whom were never depicted in published sources. The collection is, therefore, an unrivalled source of otherwise unobtainable portraits for nurserymen, amateur growers of florists' flowers, garden designers, professional gardeners, botanists, RHS officials, and entomologists of the period.