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Description
Bust-length portrait. 2013-0199. Harriet Chalmers was born in Stockton in 1875 to Alexander and Frances Chalmers. Upon marriage to Franklin Pierre Adams in 1899, she commenced a series of travels throughout Central and South America. In the course of these travels, she visited almost every important aboriginal group from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego. She traveled the world exploring all the lands under the dominion of Spain and Portugal. As a professional lecturer and writer, she was most closely identified with the National Geographic Society. She was organizer and first president of the Society of Woman Geographers, a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society of London and of the National Institute of Social Sciences of New York. Also have negative: no. 8197 (5x4 in.)
Type
image
Format
Photographs. Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 photographic print on cardboard mount ; image 6 3/8 x 4 5/8 in. on mount 10 7/8 x 9 3/8 in.
Identifier
(C)001490958CSL01-Aleph
Language
English
Subject
Adams, Harriet Chalmers,, 1875-1937--Photographs Women explorers--California--Stockton--Photographs Photographic prints Portrait photographs
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