Dr. Scott E. Bedford

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Authoritative Lectures on Modern Cities
Illustrated with Slides of Breath-taking Beauty


DR. SCOTT E. BEDFORD Noted Photographing Sociologist, Educator, World Traveler, Author, Formerly of the University of Chicago …  Brilliant Speaker
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DR. SCOTT E. BEDFORD Noted World Traveler, Author, Sociologist …  Formerly Professor of the University of Chicago …  The Authoritative Lecturer on Modern Cities
DR. SCOTT E. BEDFORD has combined academic work with practical experience.  He has been a newspaper reporter and treasurer of a business corporation.  He was prize orator and debater in college; taught in three types of Universities; did research work in labor legislation for the Carnegie Institute; been Secretary of the American Sociological Society and Editor of its Papers and Proceedings; also Associate Editor of the American Journal of Sociology; Specialist in Adult Education, U. S. War Department; Research Secretary United Charities of Chicago, and with the Governor's (Illinois) Commission on Unemployment; Director of Work Relief (State of Illinois); Consultant on Professional and Technical Projects and Technician in Adult Education in U. S. Government.  Wrote many reports and pamphlets and these books—MODERN CITIES; READINGS IN URBAN SOCIOLOGY, ETC.  Is a member of many learned societies, including INSTITUT INTERNATIONAL DE SOCIOLOGIE.  He has studied the large cities of the world and in the past twelve years studied and visited all the cities of the United States above 100,000 in population.  See WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA.

The late Professor A. W. Small, head of the Department of Sociology of the University of Chicago and editor of the American Journal of Sociology, said to Dr. Bedford, I think you know more about the social aspects of modern cities than any other American Sociologist.



THE BEDFORD LECTURES Beautifully Illustrated with Slides in Color

The Beauties of Modern Cities
America's Heart Disease — Bad Housing
The All World City
Growing Pains — City Planning



Lectures Without Pictures

The City With a Soul — Urban Neighborliness
Youth vs. Adult — The Security of Democracy



Enthusiastic Praise for Dr. Bedford's Lectures
Oak Leaves, Oak Park, Ill.

TOWNS AND CITIES AND STREETS CAN BE BEAUTIFUL; BEAUTY PAYS …  Furnishing the city streets is a new idea to most people, but not to Dr. Bedford, sociologist, editor, professor, technician in adult education, director of work relief, author, who told Nineteenth Century Woman's Club about The Beauties of Modern Cities, as picture after picture flashed on the screen with the rapidity of a flipped coin …  However, Dr. Bedford gave much more than pictures with a few explanatory words; he gave a sociological lecture illustrated with pictures showing what our surroundings can do to us …  He is a believer in decorating all the great outdoors of our cities primarily because he is interested in people and more specifically in influence of physical environment on them …  Women's clubs can do much to this end as civic beauty must come from a healthy body politic and he urged people to think of the outside of their homes as their gift to the world, the street as an extension of the homes, as he closed with a series of slides of breath-taking beauty showing the great cities at night under the gorgeous color of light with the ugliness blotted out.

University of Illinois, Urbana, Ill., Lorado Taft Foundation, Rexford Newcomb, Dean of College of Fine and Applied Arts

His lecture was immensely enjoyed by all who heard it.

American Association of University Women, Sioux City, Iowa

We have had most complimentary remarks concerning his lecture.  We considered his lecture a very great success.


Gary (Ind.) Post Tribune
Beautiful scenes in modern cities throughout the world received enthusiastic approval as they were shown and described by Dr. Bedford.

Chicago Recreation Commission, Edward L. Burchard, Ex Secretary

I know of no one in his field better informed than Dr. Bedford.

Harold Smith, Program Director, Y. M. C. A. Hotel, Chicago

Many have told me his pictures are the finest they have ever seen—and that means a lot here where we have so many fine illustrated lectures.

Fred Merrifield, Pastor, All Souls Liberal Church, Chicago, Ill.

Our people are still exclaiming in awe and delight over his lecture on The Beauties of Modern Cities.  The beautiful slides represented near perfection from the side of art; and his lecture nearly carried us off our feet …  We hope thousands more all over the country may share in this vision of beauty and become creators with him of the ideal city.

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