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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.

New building codes description of Casa Ravello's living arrangements. The building descriptions are for three buildings built in 1903, 1906, and 1911. Occupant names, building type, and descriptions of building features are provided for each year.

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…