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Newspaper ad asking for people to buy company stock in Octavia Hill Association reads "Help US Acquire Ownership or Management of Property Like This and rid the city of a menace by replacing it with a sanitary home that will yield a profit at a small…

Title page for new legislation. Bill No. 863 regarded water for small dwellings, and Bill No. 864 regarded sanitary inspections.

A 1915 tally of different immigrant groups living in different wards of Philadelphia: Italians, Austrians, Hungarians, and Russians.

Octavia Hill Association members would host banquets and parties for their stockholders, and at these events, they would run a slideshow and have a prepared speech to accompany it. A presenter read this script.

Depiction of homes along 18th and Lombard, known then as the Negro District. Categorizes types of home as tenement, dwelling, or 3-story.

This flyer advertises how the Octavia Hill Association makes and maintains homes for "wage-earners," making sure to clarify that their housing projects benefit immigrants to work and contribute to the economy.

This newsletter shows a photo of 32 homes at North Front Street and North Third streets in Kensington that the Octavia Hill Association has planned, erected, and housed for the Philadelphia Model Homes Company in the 1915 fiscal year. To continue to…

This booklet outlines the progress the Octavia Hill Association has made in renovating homes and making them more affordable.

The Octavia Hill Association outlines its mission statement for their stockholders. They aim to convert over-crowded tenements to more livable and affordable homes.

This is an invitation to a parlor meeting, where the leaders of the Octavia Hill Association would talk about the sanitary conditions of working-class immigrant neighborhoods in the city. These kinds of parties would often feature slideshow…