Gertrude Bell family protraits

Despite being an excellent and well travelled photographer in her own right (she took approximately 6000 photographs during her travels and expeditions in Arabia and world wide). These travel photographs are catalogued in the university of Newcastle library service Gerty archive. Unfortunately, she was camera shy and appears on very few photographs. Some of the images here are taken from the private photograph albums of the Bell family by kind permission of Venetia Lady Bell and Sir John Bell.

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Gertrude, aged 3 Gertrude, aged 4 with her father
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Photographic portrait of Gertrude aged 16

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Gertrude by the lake at Rounton Grange
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Gertrude photographic portrait aged 53

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Billy Lascelles
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Another famous photographic portrait

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Gertrude and Sir Hugh Bell in front of her aeroplane
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Sketch of Gertrude by John Sargant 1923		 dickdo~1.jpg

Dick Doughty-Wilie
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Gertrudes mother, Maria (Mary), in 1867

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Gertrude's stepmother, Florence from the wedding photographs

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The gardens at Rounton grange Autumn 1908

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