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New York School Centers and their Community Policy

Authors
Clarence Arthur Perry
Marguerita P. Williams
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Publication Date
96 pages

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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

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Cover image of the book The Unused Recreational Resources of the Average Community
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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
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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
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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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Industrial Conditions in Springfield, Illinois

Authors
Louise C. Odencrantz
Zenas L. Potter
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Publication Date
189 pages

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A survey by the Committee on Women's Work and the Department of Surveys and Exhibits of the Russell Sage Foundation. Part of the larger Springfield Survey of 1915.

LOUISE C. ODENCRANTZ, Department of Surveys and Exhibits, Russell Sage Foundation

ZENAS L. POTTER, Department of Surveys and Exhibits, Russell Sage Foundation

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Italian Women in Industry

A Study of Conditions in New York City
Author
Louise C. Odencrantz
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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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Cover image of the book Proceedings of the Annual Congress of the American Prison Association 1921
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Proceedings of the Annual Congress of the American Prison Association 1921

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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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An Experiment in Mental Patient Rehabilitation

Evaluating a Social Agency Program
Authors
Henry J. Meyer
Edgar F. Borgatta
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Publication Date
120 pages

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This report of research conducted at Altro Health and Rehabilitation Services was designed to develop a comparable fund of reported experiences of evaluative studies of mental health carried out in social welfare settings. It evaluates the program at Altro from the rehabilitation of post-hospitalized mental patients, based on research and in depth analysis on the resulting data.

HENRY J. MEYER was professor of social work and sociology at the University of Michigan.

EDGAR F. BORGATTA was social psychologist at the Russell Sage Foundation.

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Cover image of the book Bulletin of the Russell Sage Foundation Library
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Bulletin of the Russell Sage Foundation Library

Librarian's Report
Authors
Frederick Warren Jenkins
Elizabeth Lowell Black
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Publication Date
59 pages

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A report on the Russell Sage library in 1913, then a public lending library of books and research on social work.

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