Browse Items (43 total)
- Tags: California
The log of a forty-niner
'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
The making of a great telescope
'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 secret of the big trees
'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
Death Valley and our future climate
'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.)
America goes back to work
'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
Turtle sanctuary
'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
Men making bombers
'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
Seed potatoes
'Seed potatoes', Harpers
Tags: 1940s; 1943; 1943-4-1; Biology; California; Californians; Gardening; Plant Sciences; Superstition; United States; White, E. B. (Elwyn Brooks)
The future of the Pacific Coast
'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
A cataclysm threatens California
'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
Mass-produced individuality
'Mass-produced individuality', Harpers
Tags: 1950s; 1956; 1956-10-1; Architecture; California; Domestic; Edson, Lee; Engineering; Marinwood; Marinwood (Calif.); Planned communities; Population
ERMA, the automatic banker
'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
A better way to adopt a baby
'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
How much poison are you breathing?
'How much poison are you breathing?', Harpers
Tags: 1950s; 1959; 1959-10-1; Air quality; California; Cosing, Art; Los Angeles; Lungs; Measurement; Motor vehicles; Other; Pollution control devices; Schaeffer, Charles; Smog; United States; Waste and Pollution
Afternoon with the space people
'Afternoon with the space people', Harpers
Tags: 1960; 1960-9-1; 1960s; Aliens and UFOS; California; Draper, Hal; Forteana; Life on other planets; Sightings and encounters; Unidentified flying object cults; Unidentified flying objects
California�s $2 billion thirst
'California�s $2 billion thirst', Harpers
Tags: 1960s; 1961; 1961-3-1; California; California Water Plan; civil engineering; Design and construction; Edmund G. (Edmund Gerald) Brown; Engineering; Feather River; Flood control; Irrigation farming; Kossen, Sydney; Oroville Dam (Calif.); San Joaquin Valley
Living with your husband�s coronary
'Living with your husband�s coronary', Harpers
Tags: 1960s; 1962; 1962-9-1; Allen, Terry D.; California; Coronary heart disease; Diet therapy; Disease; Diseases; Health and hygiene; Heart; Heart Disaese; Husbands; Medicine; Patients; Rehabilitation
The uncertain future of the multiversity
'The uncertain future of the multiversity', Harpers
Tags: 1960s; 1966; 1966-10-1; Administration; Aims and objectives; Berkeley; Calif.); California; Education; Educational change; Higher; Institutions and Funding; Mario Savio; Muscatine Report (Berkeley; Savio, Mario; STS; Student movements; United States; University of California at Berkeley
California�s gift to psychotherapy
'California�s gift to psychotherapy', Harpers
Tags: 1960s; 1967; 1967-6-1; California; Child psychotherapy; Langguth, A. J.; Medicine; Psychiatry; Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy; Psychotherapy; Reality therapy; William Glasser
Running out of space
'Running out of space', Harpers
Tags: 1951-; 1970s; 1973; 1973-9-1; California; Citizen participation; Coastal zone management; Conservation of natural resources; Earth Sciences; Land use; Law and legislation; Morgan, Neil; Oceanography; Planning; Politics and government; Real estate development
Politics in the woods
'Politics in the woods', Harpers
Tags: 1970s; 1978; 1978-7-1; Biology; Bolinas (Calif.); California; Control; Deer hunting; Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge (N.J.); Lyons, Gene; Marin County; Morris County; New Jersey; Point Reyes National Seashore (Calif.); Politics and government; Wildlife conservation; Wildlife pests; Zoology
Good vibrations
'Good vibrations', Harpers
Tags: 1970s; 1979; 1979-7-1; Bookstores; California; Collectors and collecting; Gender and Sexuality; Humor; Other; Peterson, John S.; San Francisco; Sex-oriented businesses; Vibration (Therapeutics)
In the logging woods
'In the logging woods', Harpers
Tags: 1970s; 1979; 1979-10-1; California; Employees; Hager, Stan; Health and hygiene; Lumber trade; Lumbering; Lumbering accidents; Medicine; Occupational Health; Occupational Safety and Health Administration (Calif.); Public health; Safety measures; Sierra Nevada
Acting out
'Acting out', Harpers
Tags: 1980; 1980-2-1; 1980s; Acting out (Psychology); Adolescent psychotherapy; AIDS; California; Conduct disorders in children; Medicine; Peterson, John S.; Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy; Residential treatment; San Francisco
Water and power
'Water and power', Harpers
Tags: 1980s; 1981; 1981-3-1; Calif.); California; civil engineering; Engineering; Environmental aspects; History; Los Angeles (Calif.); Owens Lake (Inyo County; Owens River Valley (Calif.); Politics and government; Southern; Stegner, Page; Water; Water resources development; Water rights
Beep, beep, you�re dead
'Beep, beep, you�re dead', Harpers
Tags: 1980s; 1983; 1983-10-1; California; Ingle, Schuyler; Maneuvers; Military and Weapons; Military maneuvers; Mojave Desert; Other; United StatesArmy; United StatesDeptof the ArmyNational Training Center
Jockey club of the apocalypse
'Jockey club of the apocalypse', Harpers
Tags: 1980s; 1984; 1984-4-1; Actors; Art and Fiction; California; Haden-Guest, Anthony; Homes and haunts; Malibu; Malibu (Calif.); Motion picture producers and directors; Natural disasters; Other; Science fiction; Social life and customs
With the Chinese at Disneyland
'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
A naturalist�s guide to prime time
'A naturalist�s guide to prime time', Harpers
Tags: 1980s; 1987; 1987-4-1; Animal sounds; Animals in television; Biology; California; Continuity (Motion pictures; Ecology; etc.); Recording and reproducing; Southern; Television; United States; Wallace, David Rains; Zoology
Surrender to the landscape
'Surrender to the landscape', Harpers
Tags: 1980s; 1987; 1987-9-1; California; Earth Sciences; Effect of environment on; Effect of human beings on; Ehrlich, Gretel; Gretel Ehrlich; Human beings; Human ecology; Landscape; Meteorology and Climate Science; Nature; Wyoming