Photographs attributed to David Sydney Fish

• Reference:GB 235 DSF
• Dates of Creation:1900 - 1906
• Name of Creator:
  Fish, David Sydney
• Language of Material:English
• Physical Description:
  47 photographs plus duplicates in pockets, 1cm

• Scope and Content

  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.

• Administrative / Biographical History

  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)

• Arrangement

  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.

• Access Information

  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/

• Note

  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)

• Conditions Governing Use

  Permission required from RBGE.

• Bibliography

  some images were used in "How the Garden Grew" by Leonie Paterson, RBGE, 2013

• Additional Information

  published

  Partial

  DSF

• Genre/Form

  Photographs