From the Playground Extension Committee of the Russell Sage Foundation, this paper on landscape gardening for children’s recreation spaces was first presented at the second annual Playground Congress for the Playground Association of America in 1909.

CHARLES MULFORD ROBINSON was professor of civic design at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

A paper presented at the fifty-first congress of the American Prison Association in 1921, surveying the conditions of 30 of the 52 county jails in Florida at the time.

BERT C. RILEY was director of the General Extension Division of the University of Florida.

A 1908 pamphlet from the Department of Child Hygiene of the Russell Sage Foundation, campaigning for an end to the unsafe and noisy Independence Day celebrations that had been popular around the country at the time.

JULIA HYNEMAN BARNETT RICE, Department of Child Hygiene, Russell Sage Foundation

A 1910 pamphlet on the essential characteristics of vacation schools open for the summer, based on reports of school authorities and voluntary organizations, including teacher salaries and descriptions of class activities.

CLARENCE ARTHUR PERRY, Department of Child Hygiene, Russell Sage Foundation

A review of the development of the community center as a distinct institution and government agency, ten years after such a proposal was made to reformers the 1911 First National Conference on Civic and Social Center Development. The article first appeared in 1921 in the New York Evening Post and reprinted in the September-October 1921 number of the Community Center.

CLARENCE ARTHUR PERRY, Department of Child Hygiene, Russell Sage Foundation

An introduction to the study of the work of child-helping societies, presented at the National Conference of Charities and Correction in 1906.

WILLIAM H. PEAR was manager of the Provident Society, Boston, Massachusetts.

This 1909 paper argues that the great increase of child labor at the time led to a sharp increase in children giving up the opportunity for an education as well as for proper physical development through recreation spaces and playgrounds.

E. W. LORD, Playground Extension Committee, Russell Sage Foundation

A 1910 report of the Fairview Garden School Association of Yonkers, N.Y., detailing the origin and growth of the school garden, including costs and plans for maintenance.

A. L. LIVERMORE was chairman of the Executive Committee of the Fairview Garden School Association.

Reprinted from the Independent of August 20, 1908, this paper, written by the originator of the whole juvenile court system of the United States, calls for the establishment of playgrounds and juvenile courts around the country in order to combat the increase in crime among youth at the time.

BEN B. LINDSEY presided over the Juvenile Court of Denver, Col.

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