Everyman’s Child.

Sophie Irene Loeb.

Everyman’s Child.

New York:

The Century Co.,

1920

The writer and activist Sophie Loeb headed New York’s Child Welfare Board, gave Ragged Edge Klub talks, and considered Zoe a “universal inspiration dispenser.” Born in Czarist Russia, Sophie Loeb grew up impoverished in Pennsylvania, worked as an artist and teacher, and was briefly married before reinventing herself in New York. Everyman’s Child (photographer unidentified) outlines policies for keeping poor children out of institutional homes and supporting struggling families’ efforts to “keep body and soul together.” 

From the Collection of Eve M. Kahn.