A 1908 pamphlet from the Department of Child Hygiene of the Russell Sage Foundation, campaigning for an end to the unsafe and noisy Independence Day celebrations that had been popular around the country at the time.
JULIA HYNEMAN BARNETT RICE, Department of Child Hygiene, Russell Sage Foundation
An account of national festivals such as carnivals and their evolution over the twentieth century, in particular the annual Play Festival of Chicago, from the Playground Extension Committee of the Russell Sage Foundation.
AMALIE HOFER, Playground Extension Committee, Russell Sage Foundation
A volume of the Pittsburgh Survey, this 1915 report explains how a system involving land classes and ward rates in Pittsburgh added up to an unfair system that placed the heaviest tax burden on the lower class. It offers recommendations for reform.
SHELBY M. HARRISON was director of the Department of Surveys and Exhibits of the Russell Sage Foundation.
Immigrant Gifts to American Life, published in 1932, describes the purpose and content of the Buffalo Exhibition and other similar expositions. The Buffalo Exhibition was a public show of the arts and skills foreigners have brought and contributed to in the United States, under the direction of Allen H. Eaton, author of this book and at that time field secretary of the American Federation of Arts. They utilized a common interest in the aesthetic values men live by to promote a better understanding of social and civic values.
ALLEN H. EATON, Department of Surveys and Exhibits, Russell Sage Foundation
Five articles relating to safety of Independence Day celebrations:
The New and More Glorious Fourth by Luther H. Gulick
An American Holiday by William Orr
A Fourth of July Without Fireworks from Ladies' Home Journal
How One Town Spends the Fourth by Inez J. Gardner
Celebrating the Fourth in Large Cities by Lee F. Hanmer
LUTHER H. GULICK was director of the Department of Child Hygiene at the Russell Sage Foundation.
WILLIAM ORR was principal of Central High School, Springfield, Massachusetts.
INEZ J. GARDNER, Ladies’ Home Journal
LEE F. HANMER was associate director of the Department of Child Hygiene at the Russell Sage Foundation.
This review is a collection of informal notes on the Chicago Food Show, reprinted from the American Food Journal, Vol. XIII, No. 2, February 1918.
MARY SWAIN ROUTZAHN, Department of Surveys and Exhibits, Russell Sage Foundation
A volume of the Springfield survey of 1915. Published by the Department of Surveys and Exhibits of the Russell Sage Foundation.
FRANCIS H. McLEAN, Family Service Association of America.
Published by the Division of Recreation of the Russell Sage Foundation, this pamphlet presents a number of suggestions for a safe celebration of the Fourth of July. It includes notes on Independence Day music considerations by Arthur Farwell, then supervisor of municipal concerts for New York City.
WILLIAM CHAUNCY LANGDON was Master of the Pageants of Thetford, Vermont (1911), and of St. Johnsbury, Vermont (1912).
A compilation of the state laws enforcing recreation in public schools. Published by the Russell Sage Foundation Department of Recreation in 1915.
LEE F. HANMER was associate director of the Department of Child Hygiene at the Russell Sage Foundation.
AUGUST H. BRUNNER, Department of Recreation, Russell Sage Foundation
This book was published in 1920 as a summary of the nine reports that made up the Springfield Survey, aimed at presenting the social conditions of an American city in the hopes of progressing community welfare. The general purpose, sequence, and methods behind the survey are summarized.
SHELBY M. HARRISON was director of the Department of Surveys and Exhibits at the Russell Sage Foundation.
