This booklet provides a list of works about social surveys.

ZENAS L. POTTER worked in the Department of Surveys and Exhibits at the Russell Sage Foundation.

The Charity Organization Bulletins were printed for the confidential use of charity organization societies by the Charity Department of the Russell Sage Foundation. The bulletins for December 1915 through November 1916 cover topics such as delinquency, law as an aid to social diagnosis, pathological lying, and transportation matters.

This booklet discusses the reasons for the slowing of students’ progress in schools. It includes a text reprinted from the tenth annual report of Dr. William H. Maxwell, superintendent of schools of New York City, as well as an investigation by Leonard P. Ayres, with the assistance of Luther Halsey Gulick, into this problem in fifteen schools in Manhattan.

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

LUTHER HALSEY GULICK was director of physical training of the New York public schools. 

WILLIAM H. MAXWELL was superintendent of schools of New York City.

This booklet is reprinted from Proceedings of the Third Annual Playground Congress, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 10–14, 1909, for the Playground Association of America. It provides lists of folk dances and books on folk dancing and contains sections on dances suitable for grass playgrounds, dirt playgrounds, indoor playgrounds, small children, larger boys, larger girls, adults, various occupations, and special occasions.

This booklet is reprinted from Chapter 117, Session of 190,7 of the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey (revised at Session of 1908, Chapter 108). It presents New Jersey’s playground law, which permits the mayor of any city in the state to appoint three people from that city to a Board of Playground Commissioners for that city. It goes on to discuss the duties of the board.

This booklet contains two articles reprinted from The Playground. The first discusses the obstacles to developing playgrounds in social centers—namely, the narrow views of taxpayers, the clash of selfish interests in playgrounds’ location and distribution, and the hostility of immediate neighbors on account of the noise and disturbance of so many children at play. The second discusses the importance of playgrounds in cities generally.

GEORGE M. FORBES was president of the Board of Education in Rochester, New York.

HIRAM H. EDGERTON was mayor of Rochester, New York, from 1908 to 1921.

This booklet, reprinted from The Playground, includes two articles: one about how the commissioners of Rochester, New York, inaugurated playgrounds in both larger and smaller parks in the city, and one about the value of playgrounds in cities generally.

ALEXANDER B. LAMBERTON was president of the Board of Park Commissioners of Rochester, New York.

HIRAM H. EDGERTON was the mayor of Rochester, New York, from 1908 to 1921.

This booklet, reprinted from Proceedings of the Second Annual Playground Congress, discusses what the New York City Board of Education has done to provide facilities for children’s play outside school hours, what additional facilities for recreation might be provided, and some suggestions for the administration of children’s recreation.

WILLIAM H. MAXWELL was the superintendent of schools, New York City.

This booklet covers the development in the United States of schools for the training of guards and other prison officers modeled on one in England. Topics include the U.S. Training School at 427 West Street in New York City, the Keepers’ Training School on New York’s Welfare Island (now Roosevelt Island), and the British Training School in Wakefield, England. The booklet also contains forms relating to candidates for prison service in England and Wales.

HASTINGS H. HART was a consultant in delinquency and penology at the Russell Sage Foundation.

This article, from the Woman’s Medical Journal of January 2013, is a reprint of a 1912 report by the Russell Sage Foundation. It deals with infant mortality and the means of combating it by the instruction and care of expectant mothers. It provides a summary of characteristic features of certain cities personally investigated by the author.   

ELLEN C. BABBITT worked in the Child-Helping Department of the Russell Sage Foundation.