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.
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.
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
Read at the meeting of the Academy of Political Science in 1911, this address proposes a program for patrolling small loans to combat usury, calling for competition in the form of semi-philanthropic loan agencies and cooperative associations and legislation to legalize and regulate such a program.
ARTHUR H. HAM was director of the Division of Remedial Loans 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.
