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
This address, prepared under the Playground Extension Committee of the Russell Sage Foundation, details the exhibition of folk and national dances given in Van Cortland Park in 1908. It examines the role of folk dances and games in the playground movement.
LUTHER H. GULICK was director of the Department of Child Hygiene at the Russell Sage Foundation.
Prepared under the Playground Extension Committee of the Russell Sage Foundation, this address to the second annual Playground Congress of New York City in 1908 examines the changing role of the significance of childhood as well as sympathy for the suffering and distress of others, in particular children within the public school system.
LUTHER H. GULICK was director of the Department of Child Hygiene at the Russell Sage Foundation.
Prepared by the Playground Extension Committee of the Russell Sage Foundation in 1909, this paper presents how public interest and funds were raised for various recreational spaces for children in Chicago at the time.
E. B. DEGROOT was director of gymnasiums and playgrounds, South Park System, Chicago.
This pamphlet was released by the Russell Sage Foundation’s Committee of Education in 1925, detailing proper fireproof building materials and safety regulations to prevent fires in schools.
