Browse Items (23 total)

An annual stockholder meeting asks all stockholders, architects, and anyone interested in better living conditions in Philadelphia to attend. The event will have a business meeting as well as an informative moving picture show. A movie script such as…

Proposed homes for Philadelphia by architect John Irwin Bright

A sewage- and garbage-lined street betrays the "bad habits" of the people who live there. This photo showcases the unsanitary conditions that working-class immigrant communities lived in.

The OHA shows how they improved living conditions in Philadelphia, and they asked people to invest in their company stock

Map of a Philadelphia neighborhood showing the different immigrant communities who lived there.

Overview of immigrant home projects throughout the course of several years, including one project that had a "demoralizing effect on O.H.A. [Octavia Hill Association]." This list chronicled the organization's efforts to improve housing conditions for…

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,…

Newspaper ad from the Octavia Hill Association showing that Philadelphians could Americanize the foreign-born through friendly rent collectors.

This informational pamphlet describes the benefits of the Octavia Hill Association's project, the Hector McIntosh playground at Front and League Streets. Members of the Octavia Hill Association received this pamphlet so they could see how their money…