Published in 1910 as a handbook for institutions, Cottage and Congregate Institutions for Children presents a series of several floorplans and views illuminating the practical considerations behind establishing such institutions for children. Also included is a study of fifty representative organizations.

HASTINGS H. HART was director of the Department of Child-Helping of the Russell Sage Foundation.

This monograph is a volume of the Round Table Plan, a series by the Russell Sage Foundation to assist boards of trustees of institutions caring for dependent children in their administrative duties. Published in 1916, it details the proper protocols in admitting and discharging children from an institution, decisions that will affect the entire future development of children involved. The importance of admission policy concerns making sure that the resources of a foundation are not wasted upon those who do not need them or who might be better off somewhere else. Proper placing-out and supervision of the discharge process is discussed. The book also describes the legal and moral responsibilities that face an institution when caring for children who are its wards.

HASTINGS H. HART was director of the Department of Child-Helping at the Russell Sage Foundation.

From the text: "A pamphlet containing a suggested program for the Executive State Council in the mobilization of the resources of the State to meet conditions growing out of the prosecution of the war with Germany.  Based upon a study of conditions in West Virginia."

HASTINGS H. HART was director of the Department of Child-Helping of the Russell Sage Foundation.

Address delivered before the Seventh Annual Convention of the American Industrial Lenders' Association in Chicago 1921.

ARTHUR H. HAM was director of the remedial loans division of the Russell Sage Foundation.

"The yearly army that drops out of line -- standards too high and teaching too dull." A report published by the Foundation's Department of Child Hygiene in 1910.

LUTHER H. GULICK was director of the Department of Child Hygiene at the Russell Sage Foundation.

The full program and papers presented at the thirds annual congress of the Playground Association of America, in 1910.

GEORGE W. WHARTON was officer of the Playground Association of America.

Broken Homes attempts to analyze the causal factors that lead husbands and fathers to desert their families. It asks why men desert their wives and children and what steps can be taken for both preventative and corrective treatment. Published in 1919, this book is a careful examination of relationships and the motives behind marriage, detailing the history of desertion laws and providing additional strategies for social workers in assisting deserted families.

JOANNA C. COLCORD was superintendent of the Charity Organization Society of the City of New York.

A 1913 survey of the status of hospital social work, Social Work in Hospitals is born of the evident need for exchange of experience among hospitals around the country, as well as a desire for a more conscious and consistent effort to establish standards for social work in hospitals. Topics reported include the mentally unbalanced, employment for the handicapped, single mothers, organization of social workers, and the future of hospital social service.

IDA M. CANNON was head worker of the Social Service Department at Massachusetts General Hospital.

This paper, reprinted from the Eleventh Annual Report of the City Superintendent of Schools, New York City, 1909, by the Department of Child Hygiene of the Russell Sage Foundation, attempted to examine any possible relations between physical disability and school progress in children.

LEONARD P. AYRES was director of the Division of Education at the Russell Sage Foundation.

This pamphlet is a 1931 reprint of the introduction to A Bibliography of Social Surveys, serving as a presentation of the survey movement at the time. It includes a short historical retrospect, an attempt at a definition of the survey and its purpose, and a brief analysis of trends in surveys since 1907, the year in which the Pittsburgh Survey was begun.

SHELBY M. HARRISON was director of the Department of Surveys and Exhibits at the Russell Sage Foundation.