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Harriet Chalmers Adams (1875-1937) was an American explorer, geographer, journalist, photographer and lecturer who published accounts of her journeys in the National Geographic Magazine @NatGeo . During the #FirstWorldWar, in 1916, ... /1
Harriet Chalmers Adams (1875-1937) was an American explorer, geographer, journalist, photographer and lecturer who published accounts of her journeys in the National Geographic Magazine @NatGeo . During the #FirstWorldWar, in 1916, ... /1
... Adams went to France as a war correspondent for Harper’s Monthly Magazine. She was allowed to visit & photograph the French trenches in Lorraine during a French army tour & stayed for three months touring the region. She visited American hospitals & munition factories, ... /2
... where women were replacing the male workforce, and documented the impact of the war on the French civil population. Hidden in a cellar, she experienced the shelling of a French town by the Germans. ... /3
... Adams’ long illustrated account of her visit to the front in Lorraine was published in the National Geographic Magazine in November 1917 (nationalgeographic.com/magazine/artic…). /End
Image: Library of Congress. Prints & Photographs Online Catalog, loc.gov/pictures/resou…
Image: Library of Congress. Prints & Photographs Online Catalog, loc.gov/pictures/resou…
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