Browse Items (54 total)

'Life on the hoof', Harpers

Tags: 1920s; 1929; 1929-10-1; Alicia O�Reardon Overbeck; Biology; Bolivia; Description and travel; Indians of South America; Overbeck, Alicia O�Reardon; Social life and customs; Zoology

'Slaves of the machine?', Harpers

Tags: 1918-1945; 1920s; 1929; 1929-3-1; Blue collar workers; Chase, Stuart; Engineering; Machinery; manufacturing; Production; Social life and customs; Technology and civilization; United States

'The future of America', Harpers

Tags: 1918-1945; 1920s; 1928; 1928-6-1; American literature; Criticism; Forecasting; Leisure; Other; Social life and customs; United States

'The outlook for American culture', Harpers

Tags: 1918-1945; 1920s; 1927; 1927-8-1; Capitalism; Democracy; Education; Forecasting; Huxley, Aldous; Intellectual life; Leisure; Machinery; Other; Popular culture; Social life and customs; Technology and civilization; United States

'The motor cars�ll git you, ef you don�t watch out!', Harpers

Tags: 1918-1945; 1920s; 1926; 1926-1-1; Automobiles; Conduct of life; Engineering; Martin, Edward Sandford; Mechanical Engineering; Mechanization; Social aspects; Social life and customs; Social problems; United States; Youth

'Jungle survival', Harpers

Tags: 1920s; 1926; 1926-1-1; Biology; Blacks; Description and travel; John W. (John Womack) Vandercook; Jungles; Plant Sciences; Social life and customs; Surinam; Survival skills; Vandercook, John W. (John Womack)

'White magic and black', Harpers

Tags: 1920s; 1925; 1925-10-1; and spagiric; Anthropology; Blacks; Description and travel; Jungles; Magic; Medicine; mystic; Religion; Shamans; Social life and customs; Social sciences; Surinam; Vandercook, John W. (John Womack)

'By air to the high plateau', Harpers

Tags: 1920s; 1925; 1925-8-1; Aeronautics and Aerospace; Bogotá (Colombia); Colombia; Description and travel; Engineering; Foreign; McFee, William; Mountain flying; Seaplanes; Social life and customs; Visitors; William McFee

'Rice and volcanoes', Harpers

Tags: 1920s; 1924; 1924-5-1; Asia; Description and travel; Dutch; Earth Sciences; Geography; H.M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson; Indonesia; Java; Java (Indonesia); Social life and customs; Southeastern; Tomlinson, H. M. (Henry Major)

'Across Mongolia by motor-car', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1919; 1919-6-1; Andrews, Roy Chapman; Automobile travel; Dalai Lama XIII; Dalai lamas; Description and travel; Design and construction; Engineering; Gobi Desert; Gobi Desert (Mongolia and China); Hunting; Mechanical Engineering; Mongolia; Mongols; Social life and customs; Thub-bstan-rgya-mtsho; Trans-Siberian Railway; Ulaanbaata

'On the crest of the lost Atlantis', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1917; 1917-2-1; Automobile travel; Azores; Description and travel; Earth Sciences; Furlong, Charles Wellington; Geography; São Miguel Island; São Miguel Island (Azores); Social life and customs; Volcanoes

'On the Indian railway', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1916; 1916-10-1; Caste; Engineering; India; Mechanical Engineering; Oakley, Thornton; Railroad travel; Social life and customs

'From moccasin to motor-car', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1916; 1916-6-1; Abbott, Keene; Agricultural exhibitions; Fairs and Expositions; Mary Mitchell; Nebraska; Omaha Indians; Other; Social life and customs; Tipis

'Matutum, the mountain of mystery', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1914; 1914-3-1; Description and travel; Earth Sciences; Geography; Heiberg, Elvin Ralph; Matutum; Mindanao Island; Mindanao Island (Philippines); Mount; Mount (Philippines); Mountaineering; Muslims; Philippines; Social life and customs

'Through the heart of the Surinam jungle', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1914; 1914-2-1; Americans; Blacks; Canoes and canoeing; Description and travel; Engineering; Furlong, Charles Wellington; Jungles; Maroni River (Surinam); Mechanical Engineering; Social life and customs; Surinam; Travel

'My quest in the Arctic (second paper)', Harpers

Tags: 1908-1912; 1910s; 1913; 1913-1-1; Arctic regions; Discovery and exploration; Earth Sciences; Eskimos; Ethnologists; Explorers; Geography; Hunting; Social life and customs; Stefánsson-Anderson Arctic Expedition; Stefansson, Vilhjalmur; Vilhjalmur Stefansson

'My quest in the Arctic (first paper)', Harpers

Tags: 1908-1912; 1910s; 1912; 1912-12-1; Arctic regions; Discovery and exploration; Earth Sciences; Eskimos; Ethnologists; Explorers; Geography; Hunting; Social life and customs; Stefánsson-Anderson Arctic Expedition; Stefansson, Vilhjalmur; Vilhjalmur Stefansson

'The land of the pine barrens', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1912; 1912-2-1; Cape Fear River Watershed (N.C.); Description and travel; Earth Sciences; Flora MacDonald; Geography; North Carolina; North Carolinians; Scottish Americans; Social life and customs; Warren, Maude Lavinia Radford

'Cocoon husking in Provence', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1911; 1911-11-1; Biology; Entomology; France; Janvier, Catharine A. (Catharine Ann); Provençal; Provence; Provence (France); Silkworms; Social life and customs; Songs; Women silk industry workers; Zoology

'Tracking up the Rio Negro', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1911; 1911-10-1; Brazil; Brazil); Canoes and canoeing; Description and travel; Engineering; Mechanical Engineering; Rio Negro; Rio Negro (Amazonas; Social life and customs; Tupi Indians; Whitney, Caspar

'A quest in the Himalayas', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1911; 1911-3-1; Blair Niles; Description and travel; Earth Sciences; Geography; Himalaya Mountains; Naturalists; Niles, Blair; Social life and customs; Tibetans; William Beebe; Women mountaineers

'Enterprise', Harpers

Tags: 1910; 1910-10-1; 1910s; Bladensburg; Bladensburg (Md.); Drowsiness; Humor; Maryland; Medicine; Merchants; Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy; Sleep and Dreams; Social life and customs

'The Anglo-American polar expedition', Harpers

Tags: 1900s; 1906-1908; 1908; 1908-2-1; American; Anglo-American Polar Expedition; Arctic regions; Earth Sciences; Ejnar Mikkelsen; Ernest de K. (Ernest de Koven) Leffingwell; Eskimos; Geography; Personal narratives; Scientific expeditions; Social life and customs; Stefansson, Vilhjalmur; Vilhjalmur Stefansson

'A Lapp fishing trip', Harpers

Tags: 1900s; 1903; 1903-10-1; Biology; Connolly, James B. (James Brendan); Fishers; Fishing; Hammerfest; James B. (James Brendan) Connolly; Norway; Sami (European people); Social life and customs; Zoology