Browse Items (15 total)

'Home life with Herbert Spencer', Harpers

Tags: 1900s; 1906; 1906-4-1; Anecdotes; Biologists; Biology; England; Herbert Spencer; Philosophers

'Polly', Harpers

Tags: 1930s; 1931; 1931-8-1; Anecdotes; Behavior; Biology; Blue-and-yellow macaw; Eckstein, Gustav; Human-animal relationships; Ornithology; United States; Zoology

'Father of eight canaries', Harpers

Tags: 1930s; 1932; 1932-1-1; Anecdotes; Behavior; Biology; Canaries; Eckstein, Gustav; Human-animal relationships; Infancy; United States; Zoology

'The Ford in the jungle', Harpers

Tags: 1930s; 1933; 1933-8-1; Anecdotes; Automobiles; Climatic factors; Engineering; Follett, Wilson; Ford Model T automobile; Liberia; Mechanical Engineering; Women missionaries

'The Johnstown flood', Harpers

Tags: 1889; 1930s; 1933; 1933-9-1; Anecdotes; Earth Sciences; Flood; Flood damage; Geography; Himmelwright, Abraham Lincoln Artman; History; Johnstown; Johnstown (Pa.); Pennsylvania

'A close-up of polygamy', Harpers

Tags: 1930s; 1934; 1934-2-1; Anecdotes; Brooks, Juanita; History; Juanita Brooks; Mormons; Polygamy; Social life and customs; Social sciences; Sociology; West (U.S.)

'�Damn the torpedoes!� The unsung heroes of our merchant marine', Harpers

Tags: 1939-1945; 1940s; 1942; 1942-7-1; Anecdotes; Engineering; Lawrenson, Helen; Mechanical Engineering; Merchant marine; Merchant mariners; Naval operations; Safety measures; United States; World War II

'How Frank Lloyd Wright got his medal', Harpers

Tags: 1950s; 1958; 1958-5-1; After-dinner speeches; American Institute of Architects (Philadelphia; Anecdotes; Architects; Architecture; Awards; Bendiner, Alfred; Dinners and dining; Engineering; Frank Lloyd Wright; Pa.); Pennsylvania; Philadelphia; United States

'Only cows were killed', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1982; 1982-5-1; Anecdotes; Barns; Biology; Fires and fire prevention; Stuart, Floyd C.; Vermont; Zoology

'With the Chinese at Disneyland', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1984; 1984-9-1; Anaheim; Anecdotes; Authors; California; Chinese; Dillard, Annie; Disneyland (Calif.); Fairs and Expositions; Other; Travel

'The higher ecology', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1985; 1985-5-1; Anecdotes; Biology; Country life; Ecology; Homeowners; Household ecology; Jager, Ronald; New Hampshire

'AIDS stories', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1986; 1986-9-1; AIDS (Disease); Anecdotes; Creative writing; Disease; Gay men; John Weir; Medicine; New York; New York (State); Patients; Study and teaching; Weir, John

'Deep clean', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1993; 1993-9-1; Anecdotes; Automobiles; California; Car wash industry; cleaning; Ed Zuckerman; Engineering; Los Angeles; Mechanical Engineering; Screenwriters; Zuckerman, Ed

'Lab notes', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1999; 1999-5-1; Anecdotes; Asher, Don; Chemistry; Chemists; Cornell University; Don Asher; Jazz musicians; students; Study and teaching; United States

'A celebration of flies', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1999; 1999-8-1; Anecdotes; Biology; Children�s questions and answers; Entomology; Fatherhood; Fathers and sons; New York (State); Sag Harbor; Spalding Gray; Zoology