![Item #88883] Excerpts from Annual Letter of Morgan Community House. PITTSBURGH, AFRICAN AMERICAN...](https://lornebair.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/88883.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1775532546)
[Pittsburgh: 1924]. Octavo. Staple-bound, glazed printed wrappers; 7,[1]pp. Gentle external wear; Very Good. The Morgan Community House, a church-sponsored social welfare mission in Pittsburgh's Hill District, was active from 1919 to 1925. This fundraising prospectus is essentially a collection of brief case studies culled from the Settlement's annual report, most..... More
![Item #88536] The Story of an East-Side Family. Lillian W. BETTS](https://lornebair.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/88536.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1771900997)
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1903. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (19.5cm). Publisher's pictorial blue cloth, with designs stamped in gilt, white, and green; 342pp. Slight wear to cloth, with a few scratches and spots of soil to cover, but still a well-preserved copy, with pictorial elements bright and clean; Very..... More
![Item #2514] Misery and Its Causes (American Social Progress Series). Edward T. DEVINE](https://lornebair.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2514.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1501538564)
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1913. Later but early printing (first published in 1909). Octavo. Original gilt-stamped blue cloth (hardcover); 274,14pp. A bright, clean copy, close to fine, free of markings or wear. Devine (1867-1948) was a pioneer American sociologist and an early director of the New York School of..... More
![Item #28312] The Equipment of the Workers. An Enquiry by the St. Philips Settlement Education and...](https://lornebair.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/28312.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1449787705)
London: George Allen & Unwin, (1919). First Edition. Social survey of British labourers (mainly in the city of Sheffield), undertaken immediately following the Great War. The Society was under the directorship (though not credited herein) of the prominent Fabian Socialist, anthroposophist and educator Arthur James Freeman (1886-1972), who also founded..... More
![Item #61473] The Leaven in a Great City. NEW YORK, Lillian W. BETTS](https://lornebair.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/61473.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1716397090)
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1902. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Publisher's pictorial cloth, stamped in colors with gilt spine titles; 315pp; frontispiece and 35 unnumbered leaves of photographic plates (halftones). Square and tight with a trace of rubbing at board corners; Near Fine. Unusually nice copy of this richly-illustrated survey..... More
![Item #57805] Original Calligraphic Tribute to Newbold Morris, Signed by Seventy-One Board...](https://lornebair.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/57805.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1697759829)
Original illuminated document on parchment; hand-lettered in italic with gilt illuminations at upper left and right margins; signed beneath work by the calligrapher, "E. von E." (unidentified). With original signatures of 71 board members and staff of the Henry Street Settlement. Mild soil at margins; Near Fine. A handsome, hand-lettered..... More
