INDEX
- Agency properties, 71, 74
- Agnes Irwin School, 44
- Alms-giving; deprecated by Miss Hill, 15
- Alpha Pi Fraternity, 44
- Amsterdam, Miss Hill’s influence in, 17
- Animals on premises, 37, 38
- Artisans Dwelling Act, 15
- Ashes, 84
- Association, the Octavia Hill:
- Its function, 8, 9
- Its name, 11
- Its history, 21–75
- Its scope and field of effort, 77–102
- Its financial returns, 103
- Ayres, Alice, 16
- Babies, 33
- Bachelors, 74
- Bath-tubs, 34
- Berlin, Miss Hill’s influence in, 17
- Boy Scouts, 19
- Bricklaying, 8, 32
- Browning Societies, 11
- Building Association, Benevolent, 22
- Building Inspection, Bureau of, 34
- Burial Grounds, 17, 19
- Cadets, 19
- Carpentering, 8, 32, 66
- Casa Ravello, 33
- Catharine Street, 33
- Chaucer, 20
- Chicago, 21
- Civic Club (Philadelphia), 21, 22, 25, 31
- Clark, Mr. and Mrs. E. W., 43, 44
- Collins, Ellen, 17
- Crane, Walter, 16
- Crenshaw, Nathaniel B., 22
- Croats, 21
- Dancing, 34
- Deptford, 16
- Dinwiddie, Emily W., 34–39
- Directors (of the Association), 26
- Dividends, 26, 60, 103–106
- Doctors, 33
- Dundee, Miss Hill’s influence in, 17
- Ecclesiastical Commissioners, 16
- Edinburgh, Miss Hill’s influence in, 17
- Emergency Aid, 66
- Fairhill Street property, 31
- Feld, Frederick C., 27, 65
- Flag-raising, 51
- Flowers, use of, 18, 34, 44
- Fox, Hannah, 22, 34
- “Friendly rent-collector”: her function, 8, 18, 77–93, 104
- Front Street, 43
- Games for children, 14
- Garbage, 38, 84
- Gardens, home and school, 14, 59
- Garrison, Miss, 27
- Germantown, 51, 52
- Gifford, Edith Wright, 22
- Girard Estate, 72
- Glasgow, Miss Hill’s influence in, 17
- Good Neighbors’ Club, 43
- Gould, Dr. E. R. L., 77
- Graveyards, 17, 19
- Hampstead Heath, 16
- Hardware, 101, 102
- Head, Mrs. E. L., 52
- Health, Board of, 34, 40
- Hector Macintosh Playground, 33
- Hill, James, 11
- Hill, Octavia
- Her “legacy,”, 8
- Her life and work, 11–20, 26, 77, 94
- “Homes of London Poor” (Miss Hill’s book), 17, 18
- Houses, various types of, acquired by Association, 28, 31
- Housing Association, 40
- Italians, 33, 38, 59, 92
- Jenks, Mrs. William F., 22
- Jews, 21, 28
- Kingsley, Charles, inspires Miss Hill, 12
- Kirkbride, Mrs. Thomas S., 25
- Kyrle Society, 17
- Laborers, 38
- Landlords, 39, 83
- League Street property, 31, 32, 33
- Legacies, 71
- Legislation, 39, 40
- “Letters to My Fellow-workers” (Miss Hill’s book), 18
- Lombard Street property, 31
- London, Octavia Hill in, 11–20
- Longstreth, Mrs. Edward, 31
- Lowell, Josephine Shaw, 17
- Ludington, Charles H., 74
- MacMillan’s Magazine, 16
- Mahomet’s coffin, 7
- Manning, Caroline, 40
- “Massenhotels,”, 21
- Mifflin family, 43
- Miller, E. Spencer, 37
- Model Homes Company, Philadelphia, 60, 104
- Mothers’ Club, 33
- Multiple dwellings, 7
- Music, 14, 19, 34, 51
- Naudain Street, 66
- Negroes, 33, 66, 93, 95, 104
- New houses, building of, 72
- New Orleans, 21
- Nurses, 33
- Office force (of Association), 27, 102
- Old Swedes’ Church, 32
- Open spaces, 15
- “Our Common Land” (Miss Hill’s book), 8
- Painting, 32, 66, 94
- Parliament, Hill, 16
- Parrish, Helen L., 26, 31, 34
- Pemberton Street, 43
- Pembroke, Lord, 16
- Penn, William, 44
- Personal workers, 39
- Philadelphia:
- City of homes, 7
- “Under the Lid”, 21
- Philadelphia Model Homes Company, 60
- Philanthropy, 25, 26
- Plastering, 8, 32, 66
- Playgrounds, 14, 19, 33, 34, 51, 52, 60
- Plumbing, 8, 25, 32, 37, 85, 94
- Poles, 21, 51, 91
- Poor laws, 17
- Privy-wells, 96, 105
- Properties, classification of agency, 71
- Red Cross cottages, 16
- Rent-collecting: duties of “friendly rent-collector,”, 8, 18, 77–93,104
- Rents, 18, 32, 33, 34, 52, 65, 71, 75, 93, 103
- Richmond (Kensington), 51, 59
- Royal Commission, 17
- Ruskin, John: his assistance in Miss Hill’s plans, 12, 13, 14
- San Francisco, 21
- Serbs, 96
- Seventh Street, 33
- Sewage, 37
- Shaen, Mrs., letter from, 14
- Shakespeare Societies, 11
- Shick, Robert P., 34
- Singing Community, 14
- Slovaks, 21
- Smith, Southwood, 11
- Social Science Association, 15
- Southwark, 16, 33
- Starr, Theodore, 22, 31
- Starr Centre Association, 33
- Stock, issues of, 26
- Summer school, 33
- Superintendent: his work, 8, 9, 94–102
- “Sweating,”, 39
- Sweden, Miss Hill’s influence in, 17
- Taylor, Frank H., 25
- Tenants, 18, 32, 33, 39, 65, 72, 77, 83, 84
- Tenements, 7, 37, 39
- Tibet, 38
- Trust, National, 17
- Tunlin, 101
- Types of houses, 28
- University of Pennsylvania, 44
- University Settlement, Women’s, 17
- Van Gasken, Dr. Frances C., 34
- Veiller, Lawrence, 37
- Vienna, 21
- Volunteer service, 27, 72
- Whittier Centre, 66
- Wilson, Alexander, 32
- Women, Employment of, 11
- Wood, R. Francis, 26
- Woodward, Dr. George, 33, 37
- Workman Place, 43
- Yom Kippur, 38
- P. 78, changed “the signal for a fusillade of questions, petitions, complaints”
to “the signal for a fusillade of questions, petitions, and complaints”.
- Silently corrected obvious typographical errors and variations in spelling.
- Retained archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as printed.