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View rare, archival images and learn more about our rich legacy at the Illustrated History of the Missouri Botanical Garden. More than five hundred images are available for viewing. These include glass plate negatives, hand-tinted prints, stereographs, postcards and manuscripts.
Founded in 1859, the Missouri Botanical Garden is one of the oldest botanical institutions in the United States and a National Historic Landmark. It is also listed in the National Register of Historic Places. In 1983, the botanical garden was added as the fourth subdistrict of the Metropolitan Zoological Park and Museum District.
This web site provides access to an essay and hundreds of historic photos of the early days of the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis, Missouri. Includes images of Victorian gardens, visitors on the grounds, flower shows, and buildings.
This web site provides access to an essay and hundreds of historic photos of the early days of the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis, Missouri. Includes images of Victorian gardens, visitors on the grounds, flower shows, and buildings.
Founded in 1859, the Missouri Botanical Garden is one of the nation's oldest botanical gardens in continuous operation and a National Historic Landmark. The Garden is a center for botanical research and science education, as well as an oasis in the city of St. Louis.
Botanicus is a freely accessible portal to historic botanical literature from the Missouri Botanical Garden Library. Botanicus is made possible through support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, W.M. Keck Foundation, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Today, more than 150 years after opening, the Garden is a National Historic Landmark and a center for science and conservation, education and horticultural display. Peter Wyse Jackson, Ph.D., a globally renowned botanist, is the Garden’s president.
Letter and plans from Kew's Directors' Correspondence archive give a glimpse into the humble beginnings of one of botany's most revered institutions - Missouri Botanical Garden - and its founder Henry Shaw.
Privately administered, the garden was established in 1859 as the gift of Henry Shaw, a merchant. The garden’s periodical Missouri Botanical Gardens Bulletin contains material of interest to the general public, and its botanical reference library is one of the world’s finest.
Missouri Botanical Garden. In 1896, Olmsted Brothers became the first landscape architects hired to work on the Missouri Botanical Garden, calling for a comprehensive arrangement of plant material and the removal of the Linnaean House, then being used as an orangery.