Instituting reform : the Social Museum of Harvard University, 1903-1931 / edited by Deborah Martin Kao and Michelle Lamunière ; with contributions by Elspeth H. Brown ...[and others].

Includes bibliographical references (pages 280) and index.

Introduction: Francis Greenwood Peabody and the age of photography / Anthony W. Lee -- Portfolio I: The Social Museum -- Sentiment and science: Francis Greenwood Peabody and the Social Museum in context / Michelle Lamunière -- Portfolo II: Poor relief -- Making "social facts" visible in the early progressive era: the Harvard Social Museum and its counterparts / Julie K. Brown -- Portfolio III: Social justice -- Wayward, shiftless and excitable/vagrant, idle and disorderly: en-gendering reformatory photography / Deborah Martin Kao -- Portfolio IV: Industrial and urban betterment -- Labor, management and photography as "social hieroglyphic": the National Cash Register Company and the Social Museum collection / Elspeth H. Brown -- Appendix: The Social Museum as an instrument of university teaching / Francis Peabody (1911).