This 1909 paper from the Playground Extension Committee of the Russell Sage Foundation outlines the reasons for recreation: that it encourages mental control over motor skills, physical development and conditioning, and even the growth moral and social qualities like respect and sympathy in children.
GEORGE E. JOHNSON was director of the Pittsburgh Playground Association.
An address to the Annual Playground Association of America regarding the benefits of public recreation spaces from a physician’s point of view, from the Playground Extension Committee of the Russell Sage Foundation.
WOODS HUTCHINSON was the Oregon State Health Officer and professor of clinical medicine at the New York Polyclinic.
An address delivered before the Association at the National Recreation Congress in 1908 that points out how fundamental recreation, as well as the public spaces that provide it, can be.
CHARLES EVANS HUGHES was Governor of New York and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
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
This paper, from the Playground Extension Committee of the Russell Sage Foundation, explores the various questions and decisions that come into play for a government body in regards to the construction of a new public recreation space.
GEORGE HIBBARD was mayor of Boston, Massachusetts.
This paper, reprinted from Charities and the Commons in 1908, explores the agencies by which playgrounds are started and maintained, stemming from the positive effects of recreation spaces that began to be recognized by the public around the start of the twentieth century.
LEE F. HANMER was associate director of the Department of Child Hygiene at the Russell Sage Foundation.
A brief statement on the various plans that had been used for playgrounds in a number of cities before 1908, for the use of committees planning public playgrounds, published under the Charities Publication Committee.
LEE F. HANMER was associate director of the Department of Child Hygiene at the Russell Sage Foundation
From the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, this paper argues for the importance of play in education, with data on public recreation centers in New York City.
LUTHER H. GULICK was director of the Department of Child Hygiene at the Russell Sage Foundation.
Prepared under the Playground Extension Committee of the Russell Sage Foundation, this address to the second annual Playground Congress of New York City in 1908 examines the changing role of the significance of childhood as well as sympathy for the suffering and distress of others, in particular children within the public school system.
LUTHER H. GULICK was director of the Department of Child Hygiene at the Russell Sage Foundation.
This address was published to promote the Washington Playground Bill, known as House Bill No. 3, and to push for a state-wide law which would require school boards to provide adequate playgrounds for their students. It was delivered before the State Conference of Charities and Correction in Seattle on October 6, 1908.
AUSTIN E. GRIFFITHS was founder of the Seattle Playgrounds Association.
