From the Playground Extension Committee of the Russell Sage Foundation, this paper explores a variety of games for children in the winter months.

ARTHUR LELAND, Playground Extension Committee, Russell Sage Foundation

An ideal development for a playground on an irregular tract of land between five and six acres in extent, reprinted in 1909 from Hygiene and Physical Education.

LORNA H. LELAND, playground architect and organizer

This 1908 pamphlet, from the Playground Extension Committee of the Russell Sage Foundation, examines the benefits specific to young girls of recreational spaces for their proper mental and physical development.

BEULAH KENNARD was president of the Playground Association of Pittsburg, Pa.

In this 1909 pamphlet, from the proceedings of the third annual Playground Congress, George E. Johnson argues that children in the modern era need facilitation and supervision of play.

GEORGE E. JOHNSON was director of the Pittsburgh Playground Association.

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.

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.