A post from the archives
1903
room United Kingdom
The legendary Gertrude Bell spent a couple of weeks in Burma in early 1903.
Gertrude Bell, the near legendary British adventurer, archeologist, administrator, and spy (apparently to be played by Angelina Jolie in an upcoming Ridley Scott bio-pic) - spent a couple of weeks in Burma in early 1903. Very little survives from the trip except a few letters home and this photograph, of a "Burmese girl", taken by Gertrude Bell herself. The girl is said to be Traditional Dance Performer Ma Htwe Lay.
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