Creator
Zoe Anderson Norris.
Title
“His Little Tan Shoes”
Publisher
Harper’s Weekly,
Date
August 9, 1913,
Subject
cover art by Wallace Morgan, Zoe’s story illustrated by Harriet Mead Olcott.
Description
Harper’s Weekly (1857-1916) was one of the longest-lived publications that ran Zoe’s work. She based this story on family tragedies that she observed unfolding in tenement windows below her seventh-floor apartment at 338 East 15th Street. The plot: parents waste a summer Saturday squabbling and guzzling beer, while their “puny, pitiful boy” futilely awaits departure for a promised beach outing, his polished shoes ready on the windowsill.
Source
From the Collection of Eve M. Kahn.