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"We play in a crack on Christian Street, 435 play yard"
Small children playing in small playground in vacant lot between two three-story buildings.
Saint Martha's House
Exterior view of St. Martha's House, a settlement house founded on South Eighth Street in 1901 to provide social services to the neighborhood and to prepare young women for Church parish work. St. Martha's House was supervised by Deaconess Jean…
"Neighboring Alley"
A picture of a neighborhood alley with children playing and a dog. Clotheslines are hanging across the alley. The mixed races typify this section of South Philadelphia where African Americans and Jewish immigrants lived side by side.
"Where old Europe meets new America"
Street market scene with immigrant women sitting next to baskets of vegetables on sidewalk and man in foreground
Bad Habits Revealed
A horse and carriage are pictured in the distance of filthy street in the city.
The Kindergarten
A group kindergarten students (all girls) gather on steps in front of a St. Martha's House building in 1926. The children are making a variety of facial expressions and looking in several different directions.
"A Health Pageant"
A group of mixed age students pose for a photograph. They are wearing costumes and appear to be taking part in some type of play or skit. The students mostly appear to be girls. Some of the students hold props.
Americanization: What is it? What to do?
The National Security League distributed pamphlets that taught immigrants how to Americanize and how Americans can spread Americanization. The pamphlet describes Americanization and how best to naturalize foreign-born citizens. The pamphlet instructs…
Before and After
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…
Americanizing the foreign born through friendly rent collectors
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…