State Library of NSW

To mark the progress of the seasons, as the days become shorter and the temperature cools, we take a look at some trees in the Library's collection.

What could a twentieth-century artist’s book by surrealist Salvador Dali have in common with an early nineteenth-century French volume documenting the plants in a famous garden?

They are laundresses from Leitrim, housemaids from Manchester, Wigan and London, and women who worked in skilled trades.