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Child Marriages

Authors
Mary E. Richmond
Fred S. Hall
Ebook
Publication Date
154 pages

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Published in 1925, Child Marriages is a study of state marriage laws as they relate to unions between people under twenty years old. It includes recommendations for reforms of laws, based on the findings.

MARY E. RICHMOND was director of the Charity Organization Department at the Russell Sage Foundation.

FRED S. HALL was associate director of the Charity Organization Department at the Russell Sage Foundation.

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How Two Hundred Children Live and Learn

Author
Rudolph R. Reeder
Ebook
Publication Date
288 pages

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A study of health and education conditions of two hundred children at the New York Orphanage. The research was first presented in a series of fourteen articles between 1906-1908.

RUDOLPH R. REEDER was superintendent of the Cottage Homes and School of the Orphan Asylum Society in the City of New York

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The Regulation of Pawnbroking

Author
R. Cornelius Raby
Ebook
Publication Date
60 pages

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An examination of pawnbroking regulation in the United States, produced by the Russell Sage Foundation as part of a larger study in the field of small loans.

R. CORNELIUS RABY, Legal Department of the Provident Loan Society, New York

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The Topeka Improvement Survey

Authors
Franz Schneider, Jr.
Zenas L. Potter
D. O. Decker
Ebook
Publication Date
276 pages

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A survey of health conditions in Topeka, Kansas in 1914, in four parts:

   A Public Health Survey of Topeka by Franz Schenider, Jr.

  Delinquency and Corrections by Zenas L. Potter

  Municipal Administration in Topeka by D.O. Decker

  Industrial Conditions in Topeka by Zenas L. Potter

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New York School Centers and their Community Policy

Authors
Clarence Arthur Perry
Marguerita P. Williams
Ebook
Publication Date
96 pages

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This 1931 study of the uses of New York public schools for recreational purposes is based on data prepared by the New York City Board of Education. The study is presented in three parts, dealing with: the state of the school-center system as a whole at that time; the historical antecedents of the community policy; and the results which have followed its inauguration.

CLARENCE ARTHUR PERRY, Department of Child Hygiene, Russell Sage Foundation

MARGUERITA P. WILLIAMS, Department of Recreation, Russell Sage Foundation

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The Unused Recreational Resources of the Average Community

Author
Clarence Arthur Perry
Ebook
Publication Date
16 pages

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Address given before the Society for the Promotion of Social Service in the Young Men's Christian Association, New Haven, 1911.

CLARENCE ARTHUR PERRY, Department of Child Hygiene, Russell Sage Foundation

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The Community-Used School

Author
Clarence Arthur Perry
Ebook
Publication Date
14 pages

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A study conducted in the early 1900s, looking into ways of using public school classrooms in Rochester, New York, for community activities after school hours.

CLARENCE ARTHUR PERRY, Department of Child Hygiene, Russell Sage Foundation

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First Steps in Community Center Development

Author
Clarence Arthur Perry
Ebook
Publication Date
35 pages

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A pamphlet promoting the after-class use of school buildings for recreational, social, and civic community activities.

CLARENCE ARTHUR PERRY, Department of Child Hygiene, Russell Sage Foundation

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Contributions to Community Center Progress

Editor
Clarence Arthur Perry
Ebook
Publication Date
40 pages

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A report on the community center sessions at the N.E.A. Department of Superintendence meeting, Cleveland, February 1920 Published by the Department of Recreation of the Russell Sage Foundation.

CLARENCE ARTHUR PERRY, Department of Recreation, Russell Sage Foundation

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Proceedings of the Annual Congress of the American Prison Association 1921

Editor
C. B. Adams
Hardcover
Publication Date
381 pages

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All the reports presented at the fifty-first Annual Congress of the American Prison Association in 1921. The subjects of the papers are wide in scope, many relating not only to the administration of prisons and the treatment of prisoners, but to probation, parole, mental health, juvenile delinquency, and other related subjects.

C. B. ADAMS was president of the American Prison Association.

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