Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Photograph appears with the article, "Thirteen Lucky Children!", Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb 1933: H4, 5, and 20. Patriarch Albert Cheap is a coach yard foreman for the Santa Fe Railroad. The two oldest children are 24-year-old Virginia Ruth and 26-year-old Angela Cecilia, who don't live with their siblings. Mr. Cheap is used to getting bargains in fruits and vegetables to keep up with his children's voracious appetites. It's not only food that Mr. and Mrs. Cheap hunt for bargains for, but everything imaginable, from underwear to shoes to soap to dolls and dishes. They go into detail over other parts of day-to-day living their large family participates in, such as trips to the dentist's office, birthdays, and picnics. Virginia sits in a wicker lounge chair reading from a book while the children sit around her and peer at the pages. Text from newspaper caption: (Left) George and Vincent take the younger members of the family for a coaster ride. (Right) Virginia Ross, the family nurse, keeps a few of them quiet with a story. Text from negative sleeve: CHEAP, ALBERT & FAMILY society
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b&w nitrate negative
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uclamss_1429_1634 ark:/21198/zz002dc4g5
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Family members--American--California--Los Angeles Reading--California--Los Angeles Nannies (Children's nurses) Cheap, George Clement, 1924-1986 Cheap, John Joseph, b. 1928 Cheap, Vincent Frances, 1923-1963 Cheap, Teresa Carmel, 1926-2007 Rios, Virginia, b. 1911 Cheap, Dorothy Patricia, b. 1928
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