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

Published in 1937 as part of a series of studies dealing with the status of emerging and established professions in the United States.

ESTHER LUCILE BROWN was director of the Department of Studies in the Professions at the Russell Sage Foundation.

Published in 1948, this book is concerned with how the law school may be more effective in educating the many law-trained students who will eventually go on to work as legislators, judges, and policy-making members in government, or who, as lawyers outside the government, will nevertheless exert large influence over it. One of the most important questions is whether government lawyers are inadvertent policy-makers, and if so, how they make policy.

ESTHER LUCILE BROWN was director of the Department of Studies in the Professions at the Russell Sage Foundation.

Nursing as a Profession was published in 1936 as part of a series of studies dealing with the present status of certain established and emerging professions in the United States.

ESTHER LUCILE BROWN was director of the Department of Studies in the Professions at the Russell Sage Foundation.

Lawyers and the Promotion of Justice, published in 1938, is part of a series dealing with the status of certain established or emerging professions in the United States. It focuses on the evolution of professional education and problems incident to it in regards to the field of law.

ESTHER LUCILE BROWN was director of the Department of Studies in the Professions at the Russell Sage Foundation.

In 1949, the Russell Sage Foundation instituted a counseling service for colleges and universities that wished to improve their existing schools of nursing or introduce new nursing curricula, headed by Dr. Margaret Bridgman. After visits to more than eighty colleges around the country, the National League of Nursing Education invited her to continue the work under the new National League for Nursing in 1952. This report presents her findings.

MARGARET BRIDGMAN was academic dean of Skidmore College.

This book, published in 1913, describes the results of the first investigation made by the Committee on Women's Work of the Russell Sage Foundation, part of a series of studies of the condition of women's work in important trades in New York City that demonstrate similar conditions throughout the United States. The bookbinding trade, one of the most important trades for women in the city at the time, is examined in detail. These findings were relevant to many other industries because it presented most of the important problems which confronted women wage-earners at the time.

MARY VAN KLEECK was secretary of the Committee on Women's Work at the Russell Sage Foundation.

Written as an appendix to the Fourth Report of the New York State Factory Investigating Commission in 1914, this report examines working wages for women in the millinery trade in an effort to determine what would constitute as fair and adequate rates of pay in such a diverse industry. It argues that such a trade requires the steadying of its seasons, thus lengthening the period of employment in order to make yearly income certain and adequate.

MARY VAN KLEECK was director of the Division of Industrial Studies of the Russell Sage Foundation.

Based on Jacob H. Schiff's 1908 argument for the establishment of an unofficial employment bureau for the City of New York for the benefit of the unemployed, this 1909 report, funded by the Russell Sage Foundation, is an examination of the need for such a bureau and an inquiry into the reasons for the discontinuance of other similar labor bureaus that attempted to deal with the same problem.

EDWARD T. DEVINE was Schiff Professor of Social Economy at Columbia University and general secretary of the Charity Organization Society of the City of New York.

This book was published in 1963 as an account of the successes and difficulties encountered in the experimental introduction of a social science research service into an ongoing health and welfare agency, specifically the recounting of the development of the Social Research Service of the State Charities Aid Association, a voluntary organization with the goal of social reform.

ROLAND L. WARREN was professor of sociology at Alfred University.