[Willsmere, the former asylum at Kew, viewed from behind picket fence]

Shows men working in the garden, people under sitting at tables under pergola; ; building materials on ground in foreground; constructed between 1864 and 1872 to the design of architects G.W. Vivian and Frederick Kawerau of the Victorian Public Works Office; Kew Lunatic Asylum, later known as Willsmere.

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Date(s): 1870/1890

Creator: Lindt, J. W. 1845-1926, photographer.

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