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 DEPARTMENT OF 
 SURVEYS AND EXHIBITS 
 RUSSELL SAGE FOUNDATION 
 
 ACTIVITIES AND PUBLICATIONS 
 
 DEPARTMENT OF SURVEYS AND EXHIBITS 
 RUSSELL SAGE FOUNDATION 
 
 130 EAST TWENTY-SECOND STREET. NEW YORK CITY 
 
RUSSELL SAGE FOUNDATION 
 
 The Russell Sage Foundation was incorporated under the laws 
 of the State of New York in April, 1907. The endowment is 
 $10,000,000 given by Mrs. Russell Sage. The purpose of the 
 Foundation, as stated in its charter, is “the improvement of 
 social and living conditions in the United States of America.” 
 
 TRUSTEES 
 
 Mrs. Russell Sage, President Cleveland H. Dodge, Treasurer 
 Robert W. de Forest, Vice-President Miss Louisa Lee Schuyler 
 John H. Finley Mrs. Finley J. Shepherd 
 
 Mrs. William B. Rice Alfred T. White 
 
 John M. Glenn, Secretary and General Director 
 
 DEPARTMENT OF SURVEYS AND EXHIBITS 
 
 Shelby M. Harrison, Director 
 E. G. Routzahn, Associate Director 
 Zenas L. Potter, Field Surveyor 
 
 Franz Schneider, Jr., Sanitarian 
 Mary Swain Routzahn, Special Agent 
 Walter Storey, Special Agent 
 
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DEPARTMENT OF SURVEYS AND 
 
 EXHIBITS 
 
 The Department was organized in 1912. Its purpose is to 
 study and develop the social survey and the social exhibit as 
 measures for community improvement. Relying upon the con¬ 
 structive power of facts in efforts toward social advance, the sur¬ 
 vey is regarded as a means of discovering and interpreting the 
 constituent elements in social problems as related to given com¬ 
 munities; and the exhibit, with its accompanying educational 
 campaigns, as a means of putting facts in such simple and graphic 
 form as to make them as far as possible part of the common 
 knowledge of the community. 
 
 The method of the Department is from time to time to conduct 
 typical surveys and typical exhibits; to collect and study re¬ 
 ports, pamphlets, bibliographies, photographs, drawings, models 
 and other records of survey and exhibit experience and method; 
 and to publish practical helps on survey and exhibit work. 
 The Department also assists communities in organizing 
 local support, financial and otherwise, for surveys and exhibits; 
 makes a limited number of preliminary local diagnoses to dis¬ 
 cover the most important lines of investigation to be followed 
 and to outline methods of conducting the particular survey; it 
 is also able to put local committees in touch with investigators 
 and with survey and exhibit directors. Its activities further 
 include the devising of methods for organizing community forces 
 in order to make survey findings practically effective and for 
 conducting campaigns of education on social welfare topics; 
 and advising on exhibit construction and plans for using exhibits. 
 
 The Department’s activities are shaped in large measure by 
 two committees; a directing or departmental committee and a 
 general advisory committee. The departmental committee con¬ 
 sists of Miss Mary E. Richmond, chairman; Dr. Leonard P. 
 Ayres; Dr. Livingston Farrand (until February, 1914); John M. 
 Glenn; Paul U. Kellogg, and Francis H. McLean. Its object 
 is to advise with the director of the Department as to policies 
 and methods. 
 
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 The advisory committee is composed of twenty-two persons 
 connected with as many different social agencies whose work is 
 national in scope. The members serve personally, however, and 
 not as official representatives of their organizations. The com¬ 
 mittee’s purpose is to give the Department the benefit of the 
 experience and information of these persons and to secure better 
 co-ordination and fuller co-operation in dealing with particular 
 communities. The members are: 
 
 Dr. Livingston Farrand, Chairman, Executive Secretary, National 
 Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis 
 (until February, 1914). 
 
 H. S. Braucher, Secretary, Playground and Recreation Association of 
 America. 
 
 Miss Mabel Cratty, General Secretary, National Board Young Women’s 
 Christian Association. 
 
 Dr. George J. Fisher, Secretary, Physical Department, International Com¬ 
 mittee Young Men’s Christian Association. 
 
 Fred S. Hall, Member of Staff, Russell Sage Foundation. 
 
 Miss Jean Hamilton, General Secretary, National League for Women 
 Workers. 
 
 Alexander Johnson, General Secretary, National Conference of Charities 
 and Corrections (to 1913). 
 
 Florence Kelley, General Secretary, National Consumers’ League. 
 
 Miss Gertrude Knipp, Executive Secretary, American Association for 
 Study and Prevention of Infant Mortality. 
 
 Louis H. Levin, Secretary, National Conference of Jewish Charities. 
 
 Owen R. Lovejoy, General Secretary, National Child Labor Committee. 
 
 Charles S. Macfarland, Executive Secretary, Federal Council of Churches 
 of Christ in America. 
 
 Thomas M. Mulry, President, St. Vincent de Paul Society. 
 
 Mrs. Percy V. Pennybacker, President, General Federation of Women’s 
 Clubs. 
 
 Dr. Thomas W. Salmon, Director of Special Studies, National Committee 
 for Mental Hygiene. 
 
 Flavel Shurtleff, Secretary, National Committee on City Planning. 
 
 Dr. William F. Snow, General Secretary, American Social Hygiene As¬ 
 sociation, Inc. 
 
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 Lawrence Veiller, Secretary and Director, National Housing Association. 
 Richard B. Watrous, Secretary, American Civic Association. 
 
 Clinton Rogers Woodruff, Secretary, National Municipal League. 
 
 Also members of the departmental committee ex-offfcio. 
 
 The chief surveys undertaken by the Department include:— 
 The public health and public school situations in Atlanta; path¬ 
 finder survey of Scranton; the Newark (N. J.) Department of 
 Public Health; a limited survey of Newburgh, N. Y.; a pre¬ 
 liminary survey study of Ithaca (N. Y.); the public health situa¬ 
 tion in Ithaca; the Topeka Improvement Survey, including 
 public health, delinquency and corrections, municipal adminis¬ 
 tration, and industrial conditions; and a general survey of Spring- 
 field, Illinois, embracing investigations into charities, city and 
 county administration, the correctional system, housing, in¬ 
 dustrial and labor conditions, public health, public schools, 
 recreation and the care of mental defectives, the insane and 
 alcoholics. 
 
 The Department directed the planning, preparation and ad¬ 
 ministration of the Springfield Survey Exhibition, and the Peoria 
 (Illinois) Child Welfare Exhibition. It has also advised and other¬ 
 wise co-operated in the preparation and use of many other types 
 of social exhibits and other graphic material for expositions, 
 national organizations and state and local committees. 
 
PUBLICATIONS 
 
 The various reports contain detailed constructive recom¬ 
 mendations, and together with the findings as to conditions, 
 form studies believed to be of interest and use in other com¬ 
 munities. 
 
 The prices given below are charged to help meet the cost of 
 printing and mailing and thus make possible a wider distribution 
 of the publications. 
 
 SE1 THE SOCIAL SURVEY. Paul U. Kellogg, Shelby M. 
 Harrison, and others. 
 
 Papers defining the social survey and describing a method 
 of organizing the community backing. 52 pp. 1912. 15 
 
 cents. 
 
 SE2 THE NEWBURGH SURVEY. Zenas L. Potter, field direc¬ 
 tor; Franz Schneider, Jr.; and others. 
 
 Reports of limited investigations of public health, hous¬ 
 ing, delinquency, recreation, charities, industrial conditions, 
 municipal administration, public schools and the public 
 library in Newburgh, N. Y. 104 pp. 1913. 15 cents. 
 
 SEza SCRANTON IN QUICK REVIEW. Department of Sur¬ 
 veys and Exhibits, Russell Sage Foundation. 
 
 The report of a pathfinder survey of living conditions 
 which point to the need of a more intensive local survey— 
 made for the Century Club of Scranton. 31 pp. 1913. 10 
 
 cents. 
 
 SE2c RELATION OF THE SOCIAL SURVEY TO PUBLIC 
 
 HEALTH AUTHORITIES. Franz Schneider, Jr. 
 
 Paper read before the Third Congress of the Canadian 
 Public Health Association, Regina, Sask. 4 pp. 1913. 
 2 cents. 
 
 SE2d SOCIAL SURVEY: A BIBLIOGRAPHY. Zenas L. 
 
 Potter, compiler. 
 
 Contains references to the more important printed matter 
 
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 on social surveys available prior to December, 1913. 8 pp. 
 
 1913. 5 cents. (Out of print.) 
 
 THE TOPEKA IMPROVEMENT SURVEY, TOPEKA, KANSAS; 
 in four parts: 
 
 SE3 PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEY OF TOPEKA, KANSAS. 
 
 Franz Schneider, Jr. 
 
 A report presenting and analyzing the important local 
 facts on births, death and disease in Topeka, general sani¬ 
 tary conditions, and the work of the city health depart¬ 
 ment. 98 pp. 1914. 25 cents. 
 
 SE4 DELINQUENCY AND CORRECTIONS IN TOPEKA. 
 
 Zenas L. Potter. 
 
 A report covering police department, court penalties, 
 city and county jails, probation and parole for adults, ju¬ 
 venile delinquency, and crime prevention work. 64 pp. 
 1914. 15 cents. 
 
 SE5 MUNICIPAL ADMINISTRATION IN TOPEKA. D. O. 
 
 Decker. 
 
 A report covering the legal basis and limitations in 
 Topeka public work, general administrative and financial 
 procedures, and department administration in the city 
 government. 43 pp. 1914. 15 cents. 
 
 SE6 INDUSTRIAL CONDITIONS IN TOPEKA. Zenas L. 
 
 Potter. 
 
 A report covering labor conditions in the Santa Fe car 
 shops, general labor conditions in the city, and the situa¬ 
 tion as to labor legislation. 56 pp. 1914. 15 cents. 
 
 THE SPRINGFIELD SURVEY, SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS; in 
 ten parts: 
 
 SE7 PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS. 
 
 Leonard P. Ayres, Ph.D. 
 
 A survey of Springfield’s schools, including: the school 
 plant, the children, the teaching force, class room instruc¬ 
 tion, course of study, financial administration, medical 
 inspection, intermediate schools, vocational education, 
 educational extension, etc. 152 pp. 1914. 25 cents. 
 
 (Also available through the Division of Education, Rus¬ 
 sell Sage Foundation.) 
 
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 SE8 CARE OF MENTAL DEFECTIVES, THE INSANE, 
 
 AND ALCOHOLICS IN SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS. W. 
 
 L. Treadway, M.D., for the National Committee for Men¬ 
 tal Hygiene, New York City. 
 
 A study of methods of finding and caring for mental 
 defectives in the schools and in the community; commit¬ 
 ment, treatment and discharge of the insane and care of 
 alcoholics. 46 pp. 1915. 15 cents. 
 
 SE9 RECREATION IN SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS. Lee F. 
 
 Hanmer and Clarence A. Perry. 
 
 A survey of Springfield recreation, including: the homes, 
 schools, parks, streets, library, museum, semi-public in¬ 
 stitutions, commercial amusements, athletics, festivals, 
 pageants and public celebrations. 133 pp. 1914. 25 
 
 cents. 
 
 (Also available through the Department of Recreation, 
 Russell Sage Foundation.) 
 
 SE10 HOUSING IN SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS. John Ihlder. 
 
 A study by the National Housing Association. Deals 
 with housing tendencies and the legal aspects of housing 
 in Springfield. 24 pp. 1914. 15 cents. 
 
 SE11 THE CHARITIES OF SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS. 
 
 Francis H. McLean. 
 
 A survey of the Springfield charities, including: the 
 children in Springfield institutions, the charitable care of 
 the sick, family disabilities and causes of distress, the 
 social agencies dealing with families, financial considera¬ 
 tions, etc. 185 pp. 1915. 25 cents. 
 
 SE12 INDUSTRIAL CONDITIONS IN SPRINGFIELD, ILLI¬ 
 NOIS. Louise C. Odencrantz and Zenas L. Potter. 
 
 A survey of work conditions and industrial relations, in¬ 
 cluding: health hazards in industry; hours of labor; 
 child labor; wages and regularity of employment; social 
 effects of work conditions; efforts for industrial better¬ 
 ment, etc. 150 pp. 1916. 25 cents. 
 
 SE13 CITY AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATION IN SPRING- 
 
 FIELD, ILLINOIS (In press). D. O. Decker. 
 
 A survey of the efficiency of the public offices, including 
 
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 assessment and collection of taxes and other revenues; 
 disbursement methods; organization of city adminis¬ 
 trative functions; budget; city department efficiency; 
 county administrative work; the park board; publicity 
 and reports, etc. 150 pp. 1916. 25 cents. 
 
 SE14 PUBLIC HEALTH IN SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS. 
 
 Franz Schneider, Jr. 
 
 A survey of Springfield’s public health, including: 
 infant mortality, contagious diseases of children, the 
 tuberculosis situation, typhoid fever, venereal diseases, 
 city water supply, sewerage and sewage disposal, wells 
 and privies, milk and food supply, and city health depart¬ 
 ment. 159 pp. 1915. 25 cents. 
 
 SE15 THE CORRECTIONAL SYSTEM OF SPRINGFIELD, 
 
 ILLINOIS. Zenas L. Potter. 
 
 A survey of Springfield’s correctional system, includ¬ 
 ing: the dispostion of cases of arrest, the use of fines, 
 hours to leave town, suspended sentence, jail sentences, 
 indeterminate sentence and parole; probation of adults 
 and children; detention of children; the juvenile court; 
 legislation needs; and the work and policy of the police 
 department. 185 pp. 1915. 25 cents. 
 
 SE16 SPRINGFIELD: THE SURVEY SUMMED UP (In 
 
 preparation). Shelby M. Harrison. 
 
 A summary of the nine reports giving attention to the 
 interrelated character of some of the problems, and includ¬ 
 ing a plan for practical “follow-up” methods of utilizing 
 the public interest and knowledge of conditions growing 
 out of the survey. 1916. 15 cents. 
 
 SE17 THE DISPROPORTION OF TAXATION IN PITTS¬ 
 BURGH. Shelby M. Harrison. 
 
 Summary of findings in an investigation of taxation in 
 Pittsburgh, as a part of the Pittsburgh Survey. 15 pp. 
 1915. 10 cents. 
 
 SE18 AN EFFECTIVE EXHIBITION OF A COMMUNITY 
 SURVEY. Article reprinted from The American City, Jan¬ 
 uary, 1915 . 
 
 A brief description of the Springfield Survey Exhibition. 
 8 pp. 1915. 5 cents. 
 
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 SE19 A SURVEY OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH SITUATION, 
 ITHACA, N. Y. Franz Schneider, Jr. 
 
 A study of the public health situation in a small city which 
 has eradicated much of the excess sickness and death occur- 
 ring in the field of preventable disease. 36 pp. 1915. 15 cents. 
 
 SE20 DEPARTMENT OF SURVEYS AND EXHIBITS, RUSSELL 
 SAGE FOUNDATION. Activities and Publications. Free. 
 
 SE21 A SURVEY OF THE ACTIVITIES OF MUNICIPAL 
 HEALTH DEPARTMENTS IN THE UNITED STATES. 
 Franz Schneider, Jr. 
 
 An investigation to obtain an approximate idea of the 
 status of health department work in the United States. 
 24 pp. 1916. 20 cents. 
 
 SE22 THE SOCIAL SURVEY. A BIBLIOGRAPHY. Zenas 
 L. Potter, Compiler. 
 
 A comprehensive, not a selective, reference list of publica¬ 
 tions on social surveys available up to December, 1915. 
 Limited to reports of surveys in the United States and Can¬ 
 ada. 16 pp. 1915. 5 cents. 
 
 (Also available through the Russell Sage Foundation 
 Library.) 
 
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 PUBLICATIONS OF OTHER DEPARTMENTS OF 
 THE RUSSELL SAGE FOUNDATION 
 
 Publications presenting the results of a wide range of studies 
 made in fields similar or related to those represented by the va¬ 
 rious survey reports are available through other Departments 
 of the Russell Sage Foundation. Lists of departmental publica¬ 
 tions may be obtained by addressing any of the following at 130 
 East 22d Street, New York City: 
 
 CHARITY ORGANIZATION DEPARTMENT 
 COMMITTEE ON WOMEN’S WORK 
 DEPARTMENT OF CHILD HELPING 
 DEPARTMENT OF RECREATION 
 DIVISION OF EDUCATION 
 DIVISION OF REMEDIAL LOANS 
 RUSSELL SAGE FOUNDATION LIBRARY 
 
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 RUSSELL SAGE FOUNDATION PUBLICATIONS 
 
 The Pittsburgh Survey. Six volumes edited by Paul U. Kellogg. Price 
 per set, postpaid, $10. 
 
 The Pittsburgh District: Civic Frontage. $2.70. 
 
 Wage-earning Pittsburgh. $ 2 . 72 . 
 
 Women and the Trades. By Elizabeth Beardsley Butler. $ 1 . 72 . 
 
 Work-Accidents and the Law. By Crystal Eastman. $ 1 . 72 . 
 
 The Steel Workers. By John A. Fitch. $1.73. 
 
 Homestead: The Households of a Mill Town. By Margaret F. Bying- 
 ton. $ 1 . 70 . 
 
 West Side Studies. In two volumes. 
 
 Boyhood and Lawlessness. The Neglected Girl. By Ruth S. True. 
 $2.00. 
 
 The Middle West Side. By Otho G. Cartwright. Mothers Who Must 
 Earn. By Katharine Anthony. $ 2 . 00 . 
 
 Housing Reform. By Lawrence Veiller. $1.25. 
 
 Carrying Out the City Plan. By Flavel Shurtleff. In collaboration with 
 Frederick Law Olmsted. $ 2 . 00 . 
 
 Medical Inspection of Schools. By Luther Halsey Gulick, M.D., and 
 Leonard P. Ayres, Ph.D. $ 1 . 50 . 
 
 Wider Use of the School Plant. By Clarence Arthur Perry. $1.25. 
 Outdoor Relief in Missouri. By George A. Warfield. $1.00. 
 
 The Almshouse. By Alexander Johnson. $1.25. 
 
 San Francisco Relief Survey. $3.50. 
 
 One Thousand Homeless Men. By Alice Willard Solenberger. $1.25. 
 
 Social Work in Hospitals. By Ida M. Cannon, R.N. $1.50. 
 
 Record Keeping for Child Helping Institutions. By Georgia G. Ralph. 
 $ 1.50. 
 
 Care and Education of Crippled Children in the United States. By 
 Edith Reeves. $ 2 . 00 . 
 
 Prison Reform. By Chas. R. Henderson, F. B. Sanborn, F. H. Wines and 
 Others. $2.67. 
 
 Penal and Reformatory Institutions. By Charles R. Henderson and 
 Others. $ 2 . 70 . 
 
 The Standard of Living Among Workingmen’s Families in New York 
 City. By Robert Coit Chapin, Ph.D. $ 2.00. 
 
 Workingmen’s Insurance in Europe. By Lee K. Frankel and Miles M. 
 Dawson, with the co-operation of Louis I. Dublin. $ 2 . 70 . 
 
 Fatigue and Efficiency. By Josephine Goldmark. $ 2 . 00 . 
 
 The Longshoremen. By Charles B. Barnes. $2.00. 
 
 Working Girls in Evening Schools. By Mary Van Kleeck. $1.50. 
 
 Women in the Bookbinding Trade. By Mary Van Kleeck. $1.50. 
 
 Artificial Flower Makers. By Mary Van Kleeck. $1.50. 
 
 Handbook of Settlements. Edited by Robert A. Woods and Albert J. 
 Kennedy. $1.50. 
 
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