Browse Items (43 total)

'A better way to adopt a baby', Harpers

Tags: 1950s; 1957; 1957-1-1; Adoption; Adoption agencies; California; Los Angeles; Medicine; Monroe, Keith; Reproduction and Development

'ERMA, the automatic banker', Harpers

Tags: 1950s; 1957; 1957-1-1; AI, Automation and Robotics; Automated tellers; Automation; Bank of America; Bliven, Bruce; Calif.); California; Engineering; Menlo Park; Stanford Research Institute (Menlo Park

'Mass-produced individuality', Harpers

Tags: 1950s; 1956; 1956-10-1; Architecture; California; Domestic; Edson, Lee; Engineering; Marinwood; Marinwood (Calif.); Planned communities; Population

'A cataclysm threatens California', Harpers

Tags: 1950; 1950-4-1; 1950s; California; Colorado River Delta; Cooper, Alfred M.; Earth Sciences; Erosion; Floods; Forecasting; Geology; Mexico; seismology

'The future of the Pacific Coast', Harpers

Tags: 1939-1945; 1940s; 1945; 1945-3-1; California; Economic conditions; Economic conversion; Economic forecasting; Economics; Forecasting; Grattan, C. Hartley (Clinton Hartley); Social sciences; World War II

'Seed potatoes', Harpers

Tags: 1940s; 1943; 1943-4-1; Biology; California; Californians; Gardening; Plant Sciences; Superstition; United States; White, E. B. (Elwyn Brooks)

'Men making bombers', Harpers

Tags: 1939-1945; 1940s; 1942; 1942-4-1; Aeronautics and Aerospace; Aircraft industry workers; Attitudes; California; Engineering; Lewis Marshall Thompson; Social aspects; Thompson, Lewis Marshall; World War II

'Turtle sanctuary', Harpers

Tags: 1930s; 1937; 1937-11-1; Beebe, William; Biology; California; Description and travel; Gulf of; Gulf of (Mexico); Marine biology; Mexico; Scientific expeditions; Sea turtles; William Beebe

'America goes back to work', Harpers

Tags: 1920; 1920-9-1; 1920s; Baja California (Mexico); California; Chinese Americans; Earth Sciences; Economic conditions; Geography; Hungerford, Edward; Imperial Valley; Imperial Valley (Califand Mexico); Irrigation farming; Japanese Americans; Race discrimination; Race relations; San Diego (Calif.); San Francisco (Calif.); Soci

'Death Valley and our future climate', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1916; 1916-5-1; Calif.); California; Climate; Climatic changes; Death Valley; Death Valley (Califand Nev.); Description and travel; Earth Sciences; Huntington, Ellsworth; Meteorology and Climate Science; Observations; Owens Lake (Inyo County; Research; Searles Lake (Calif.)

'The secret of the big trees', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1912; 1912-7-1; Biology; California; Climatic changes; Dendrochronology; Giant sequoia; Huntington, Ellsworth; Plant Sciences; Research

'The making of a great telescope', Harpers

Tags: 1910; 1910-10-1; 1910s; Astronomical photography; Astronomy and Astrophysics; California; Design and construction; Mount; Mount Wilson Observatory (Calif.); Physics; Reflecting telescopes; Ritchey, G. W. (George Willis); Wilson

'The log of a forty-niner', Harpers

Tags: 1900s; 1906; 1906-11-1; California; Engineering; Gold discoveries; Gold miners; Gold mines and mining; Mining and Explosives; Morgan, William Ives; Muzzy, Florence Emlyn (Downs); Personal narratives; Production; William Ives Morgan