This pamphlet, published in 1910, aims to serve as a guide for a better and more beneficent organization of social service work in the United States, combating the neglect of bad social conditions and aimless charitable activity. It provides a detailed analysis of social conditions in smaller cities, with a wealth of practical advice and illustration.

FRANCIS H. McLEAN was field secretary of the Charity Organization Department of the Russell Sage Foundation.

Addresses and discussions of the Child Welfare Conference in Richmond, Virginia, May 1911.

ROY K. FLANNAGAN was president of the State Conference of Charities and Corrections of Virginia.

All the reports presented at the fifty-first Annual Congress of the American Prison Association. 

HASTINGS H. HART was president of the American Prison Association.

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.

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.

Five articles relating to safety of Independence Day celebrations:

The New and More Glorious Fourth by Luther H. Gulick

An American Holiday by William Orr

A Fourth of July Without Fireworks from Ladies' Home Journal

How One Town Spends the Fourth by Inez J. Gardner

Celebrating the Fourth in Large Cities by Lee F. Hanmer

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

WILLIAM ORR was principal of Central High School, Springfield, Massachusetts.

INEZ J. GARDNER, Ladies’ Home Journal

LEE F. HANMER was associate director of the Department of Child Hygiene 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.

A bibliography of published research on social conditions in New York City. Published by the Russell Sage Foundation's Charities Publication Committee in 1911.

JAMES BRONSON REYNOLDS was the president of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology.

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

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