Two Original Albumen Photographs, Curators Residence Botanic Garden &
by SYDNEY BOTANIC GARDEN
(PHOTOGRAPHY) SYDNEY BOTANIC GARDEN. Two Original Albumen Photographs, Curators Residence Botanic Garden & Mrs. Macquaries Chair. (Sydney: circa 1870). Two photographs mounted on either side of a card sheet x 8 inches). The oldest scientific institution in Australia, the Botanic Gardens were foun in 1816 by Governor Macquarie. The collection and study of plants began the following year with the appointment of the first Colonial Botanist, Charles Fraser. Stories state that Governor Macquarie's wife once sat on the rocky peninsula overlooking the harbor, watching for ships from England. This monument, carved from that rock, marks the completion in 1816 of Mrs. Macquarie's Road, a three-mile road around the domain which she planned. Eac hand titled underneath the image, and the second one a little foxed in the lo margin. (Inventory #: 39290)