4072665 Harriet Chalmers Adams at the zoo, 1912 (b/w photo) by Harris & Ewing (1905-45); Private Collection; (add.info.: Harriet Chalmers (1875-1937) American explorer, writer and photographer, married Franklin Pierce Adams in 1899. Published accounts of her journeys through South America, Asia and the South Pacific in the National Geographic magazine. Served as a correspondent for Harper\'s Magazine in Europe during World War I, the only female journalist allowed to visit the trenches. Elected in 1913 to the Royal Geographical Society of London, in 1925 she was the first president of the Society of Woman Geographers.); American, out of copyright.