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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.

A receipt for purchasing stock in the OHA with fill-in-the-blank values

The chair members of the Octavia Hill Association ask stockholders to buy more stock in the company to offset a loss of revenue in two rental properties on North Front Street and North Third Street.

"Filthy Surface Sewage in Which Children Play" - this Octavia Hill Association photo shows the unsanitary conditions that working-class, immigrant families faced. Their crowded tenements often lacked basic utilities such as plumbing and had no clean,…

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

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…

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

The OHA planned to purchase and renovate a section of Philadelphia around Orianna and 3rd Streets. The front of the page shows a map of the lot, and the back shows photos of the current condition of the property.

This Octavia Hill Association flyer shows how the business can renovate and produce a profit on remodeling homes for working-class immigrant families. They aim to take dilapidated, unsanitary living conditions and use "intelligent planning" to make…