Some American pioneers in social welfare
By: select documents with editorial notes by Edith Abbott.
Series: The University of Chicago social service series
Publisher: The University of Chicago press
Published: 1937
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
Subjects: Philanthropists.; Social service -- History.; Charities -- United States.
Notes: "Preprinted from A documentary history of social welfare in England and America."

"Second impression, July 1938."
Table of contents: title: Benjamin Rush: a physician philanthropist in the eighteenth century.; title: Benjamin Franklin: Benjamin Franklin's account of an eighteenth-century hospital.; title: Thomas Eddy.; title: Stephen Girard.; title: Samuel Gridley Howe.; title: Dorothea L. Dix.; title: Charles Loring Brace.; title: Appendix I. Three American poor relief documents, 1870-1885.; title: Appendix II. The first public welfare association.