This 1947 bibliographical study presents research related to the urban planning concept of the neighborhood unit. Topics include various U.S. city plans.

James Dahir was a member of the Social Work Year Book Department.

Migration and Social Welfare, published in 1940, identifies the more pressing problems faced by migrants in the United States, including the sources and causes of migration and the social effects of inadequate welfare provision. It was written on special commission from the Social Work Year Book Department. Topics include employment, housing, health, and education of migrants. It proposes a national immigration policy and includes a bibliography on interstate migration.

Philip E. Ryan was executive secretary of the Council on Interstate Migration.

This 1937 report has to do with people in the Appalachian Mountain region whose chief concern with handicrafts was the income they would bring, as they offered the only means by which to earn money. One purpose was to show how indispensable handicrafts were in the economy of countless families throughout the region; a second was to show the other rewards handicrafts brought to these same people, what they added to the social and recreational life for the communities in which they carried on, their educational and cultural significance, the esthetic enjoyment they fostered, their help in the field of therapeutics, and the sense of emotional security they gave. Containing fifty-eight illustrations form photographs taken for the work by Doris Ulmann.

Allen H. Eaton was the author of Immigrant Gifts to American Life and part of the Department of Surveys of the Russell Sage Foundation.

Material for this study was collected during the summer and early autumn of 1931, in response to a request from the President’s Organization on Unemployment Relief. Thirty communities were visited, and the reports on work relief carried out in 26 of them, chiefly situated in the middle, eastern, and southern states, can be found in Part II.

Joanna C. Colcord was director of the Charity Organization Department of the Russell Sage Foundation. Assisted by William C. Koplovitz and Russell H. Kurtz.

Presented at the Fifty-Second Congress of the American Prison Association in Detroit, October, 1922, this pamphlet presents a selection of noteworthy plans and illustrations, with special reference to unusual or improved features. The plans selected include state prisons in New York and Alabama and tentative plans for a state prison and a state reformatory, plans for single buildings at two reformatories for women, plans for cottages at two reformatories for boys, and tentative plans for a metropolitan jail designed by the writer with special reference to the needs of Chicago.

HASTINGS H. HART was director of the Department of Child-Helping of the Russell Sage Foundation.

A report on the adoption of the Transportation Agreement, with contributions from Alexander M. Wilson, assistant director of the Department of Public Health and Charities of Philadelphia; Mabel Tibbot, overseer of the poor, Fort Dodge, Iowa; George S. Wilson, secretary of the Board of Charities, District of Columbia; and the State Board of Charities of Missouri, in a “Letter of Advice to County Courts.”

An exploration of settlements throughout the United States, in particular non-residential neighborhood centers, covering a range of interests, including history, educational approaches, and connections to labor.

ROBERT A. WOODS, New York Charities Publication Committee

ALBERT J. KENNEDY, New York Charities Publication Committee

The organization and methods of relief used after the earthquake and fire of April 18, 1906, compiled from studies by Charles J. O’Connor, Francis H. McLean, Helen Swett Artieda, James Marvin Motley, Jessica Peixotto, and Mary Roberts Coolidge, offering a book of ready reference for use on occasions of special emergency.

A survey of public schools conducted by the Department of Education of the Russell Sage Foundation under the direction of Leonard P. Ayres. Part of the Springfield Survey.

A survey by the Department of Surveys and Exhibits, Russell Sage Foundation, the result of field investigations on vital statistics carried out between March and May, 1914, supplemented by co-operative efforts by city and state officials and local volunteer workers.

FRANZ SCHNEIDER, JR. was sanitarian at the Department of Surveys and Exhibits of the Russell Sage Foundation.