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This booklet published by the Octavia Hill Association depicts images of Hector McIntosh Playground, at Front and League Streets in the Southwark neighborhood of South Philadelphia, a small playground owned by the Association, a housing reform…

This article describes the work and goals of the "friendly rent collectors" of the Octavia Hill Association in Philadelphia. These women go to the houses of immigrants to collect rent and in doing so inspect the properties and tenants giving them…

Octavia Hill Association requests the public to invest in their stock and buy homes in poorer sections of Philadelphia to refurbish. The goal set forth by Octavia Hill in this article is to Americanize the immigrants in Philadelphia and give them…