Browse Items (54 total)

'[The people at war', Harpers

Tags: 1939-1945; 1940s; 1943; 1943-10-1; Passos, John Dos; Social aspects; Social life and customs; Social sciences; Sociology; Washington (D.C.); World War II

'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.)

'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

'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

'A romance of rust', Harpers

Tags: 2000s; 2005; 2005-1-1; 21st century; Agricultural implements; Antique auctions; Engineering; Hardware; Hohn, Donovan; Mechanical Engineering; Social life and customs; Tools; United States

'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

'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

'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

'Coming events, including the millennium', Harpers

Tags: 1930s; 1932; 1932-12-1; A.D.; Forecasting; Forecasts; Martin, Edward Sandford; Millennialism; Moral conditions; Other; Social life and customs; Two thousand; United States

'Detroit', Harpers

Tags: 1930; 1930-12-1; 1930s; Automobile travel; Description and travel; Detroit; Detroit (Mich.); Duffus, R. L. (Robert Luther); Engineering; Mechanical Engineering; Michigan; Population; Social classes; Social life and customs

'Endless summer of love. Goa', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1987; 1987-5-1; Black, David; Description and travel; Foreign; Hippies; India; Other; Social life and customs; social movements; Travel; Velha Goa; Velha Goa (India); Visitors

'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

'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

'Gary, Indiana', Harpers

Tags: 1960s; 1969; 1969-8-1; Engineering; Frady, Marshall; Gary; Gary (Ind.); Indiana; manufacturing; Middle class; Politics and government; Production; Race relations; Social life and customs; Social problems; Steel industry and trade; Steel-works

'How to preserve an unspoiled wilderness', Harpers

Tags: 1960s; 1966; 1966-3-1; Earth Sciences; Humor; Lapland; Social life and customs

'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

'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)

'Landscape with farmers', Harpers

Tags: 1930s; 1937; 1937-12-1; Charles Allen Smart; Country life; Farm life; Farmers; Landscape; Ohio; Smart, Charles Allen; Social life and customs; Social sciences; Sociology

'Lessons in living from the stone age', Harpers

Tags: 1930s; 1939; 1939-7-1; Civilization; Eskimos; Medicine; Northwest Territories; Nutrition; Social life and customs; Stefansson, Vilhjalmur; Vilhjalmur Stefansson

'Let�s go', Harpers

Tags: 2000; 2000-7-1; 2000s; California; Cass, Dennis; Computer industry; Dennis Cass; Description and travel; Engineering; Information Technology; San Francisco Bay Area; San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.); Social life and customs

'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

'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

'Men to match Japan�s mountains', Harpers

Tags: 1960; 1960-2-1; 1960s; Bodies; Bosworth, Allan R. (Allan Rucker); Japan; Medicine; Social life and customs; Sumo; training

'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

'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

'On being an object', Harpers

Tags: 1970s; 1971-; 1973; 1973-11-1; Celebrities; Interpersonal relations; Medicine; Psychology; Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy; Sisk, John P.; Social life and customs; United States

'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

'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)

'Russians like our planes', Harpers

Tags: 1940s; 1944; 1944-9-1; Aeronautical engineers; Aeronautics and Aerospace; Engineering; Leighton W. (Leighton William) Rogers; Rogers, Leighton W. (Leighton William); Social life and customs; Soviet Union; Travel; United States