| History/Scope | This collections comprises glass lantern slides taken on a trip by the creator to Central Asia in 1910.
Isabella [Ella] Robertson Christie (1861-1949), traveller and gardener, was born on 21 April 1861 at Millbank, Cockpen, Edinburgh. She travelled widely in Asia and visited many countries including India, Ceylon, Malaya, China, Japan and Borneo. Her most significant trips were to Russian Turkestan in 1910 and 1912, and she was the first British woman to visit the state of Kiva.
Ella Christie was an active member of the RSGS and was awarded the Diploma of Fellowship (FRSGS) in 1911. Notes from an afternoon lecture on Russian Central Asia, she gave for the Society in Edinburgh, illustrated by her own photographs, are published in volume 36, p85 of The Scottish Geographical Magazine.
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