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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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Italian Women in Industry

A Study of Conditions in New York City
Author
Louise C. Odencrantz
Ebook
Publication Date
356 pages

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Published in 1919, Italian Women in Industry presents the findings of a study of Italian working women in New York City in the early twentieth century, touching upon the problems of both immigration and industry.

LOUISE C. ODENCRANTZ, Department of Surveys and Exhibits, 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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Wage-Earning Pittsburgh

Editor
Paul Underwood Kellogg
Ebook
Publication Date
741 pages

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A volume of the Pittsburgh Survey, carried out by the Russell Sage Foundation in 1914.

PAUL UNDERWOOD KELLOGG was director of the Pittsburgh Survey.

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The Pittsburgh District

Civic Frontage
Editor
Paul Underwood Kellogg
Ebook
Publication Date
691 pages

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A volume of the Pittsburgh Survey carried out by the Russell Sage Foundation in 1914, focusing on Pittsburgh's history and growth, civic conditions, and education, recreation, and institutional facilities.

PAUL UNDERWOOD KELLOGG was director of the Pittsburgh Survey.

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Housing in Springfield, Illinois

A Study by the National Housing Association
Author
John Ihlder
Ebook
Publication Date
38 pages

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A volume of the Springfield Survey published in 1914, this report presents a clear idea of the housing conditions in Springfield at the time, as well as the methods taken to keep conditions up to standard. Topics include land overcrowding, unhealthy circumstances in apartments, and housing for miners, with an argument of what the city could do to improve conditions.

JOHN IHLDER, Springfield Survey Committee

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Plans for a Model Jail

Author
R. W. Zimmerman
Ebook
Publication Date
18 pages

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Presented at the fifty-first congress of the American Prison Association in 1921, this pamphlet attempts to develop proper, universal plans for a model jail. Arguing that each prison would have specific building requirements and characteristics, the author presents several well-established canons of architecture and building which should be followed in any jail, emphasizing humane conditions and required needs. Printed with A Departmental Plan for a Detention Home for Delinquent Women by Maxwell Hyde.

R. W. ZIMMERMAN, prison architect, Chicago

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