From the Playground Extension Committee of the Russell Sage Foundation, this paper explores a variety of games for children in the winter months.

ARTHUR LELAND, Playground Extension Committee, Russell Sage Foundation

An ideal development for a playground on an irregular tract of land between five and six acres in extent, reprinted in 1909 from Hygiene and Physical Education.

LORNA H. LELAND, playground architect and organizer

A recreation survey of Ipswich, Massachusetts, based on direct observation of children’s outdoor play and interviews with the children. Its purpose was to determine what the schools of the Ipswich community might do to meet the recreation needs of the community.

HOWARD R. KNIGHT, Department of Recreation, Russell Sage Foundation

In this 1909 pamphlet, from the proceedings of the third annual Playground Congress, George E. Johnson argues that children in the modern era need facilitation and supervision of play.

GEORGE E. JOHNSON was director of the Pittsburgh Playground Association.

An address delivered before the Association at the National Recreation Congress in 1908 that points out how fundamental recreation, as well as the public spaces that provide it, can be.

CHARLES EVANS HUGHES was Governor of New York and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

An account of national festivals such as carnivals and their evolution over the twentieth century, in particular the annual Play Festival of Chicago, from the Playground Extension Committee of the Russell Sage Foundation.

AMALIE HOFER, Playground Extension Committee, Russell Sage Foundation

This paper, from the Playground Extension Committee of the Russell Sage Foundation, explores the various questions and decisions that come into play for a government body in regards to the construction of a new public recreation space.

GEORGE HIBBARD was mayor of Boston, Massachusetts.

A volume of the Pittsburgh Survey, this 1915 report explains how a system involving land classes and ward rates in Pittsburgh added up to an unfair system that placed the heaviest tax burden on the lower class. It offers recommendations for reform.

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

From the proceedings of the National Conference of Charities and Correction of 1915, this article examines the concept of a neighborhood community center, a public space with a variety of social activities for residents of all ages. It details the possible means of organizing such a space.   

LEE F. HANMER was associate director of the Department of Child Hygiene at the Russell Sage Foundation.

A brief statement on the various plans that had been used for playgrounds in a number of cities before 1908, for the use of committees planning public playgrounds, published under the Charities Publication Committee.

LEE F. HANMER was associate director of the Department of Child Hygiene at the Russell Sage Foundation