Some American pioneers in social welfare ; select documents with editorial notes.

Author: Abbott, Edith, 1876-1957.

Imprint:New York : Russell & Russell, 1963 [c1937]

Description189 p. : illus. ; 23 cm.

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

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