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Title
Cheap family with thirteen children, Los Angeles, 1933
Date Created and/or Issued
[circa February 18, 1933]
1933-02-18
Publication Information
Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution
UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection
Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information
US
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
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.
Photograph appears with the article, "Thirteen Lucky Children!", Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb 1933: H4,5, and 20.
The older children sit in the last row with their parents with the younger ones standing, kneeling, and sitting on the floor in front of them.
Text from negative sleeve: CHEAP, ALBERT & FAMILY society
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_1635
ark:/21198/zz002dc4hp
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Family members--American--California--Los Angeles
Group portraits
Cheap, Dorothy Patricia, b. 1928
Cheap, Thomas Ignatius, 1916-1988
Cheap, Alice Pauline, 1920-1980
Cheap, Teresa Carmel, 1926-2007
Cheap, Albert Henry, 1880-1965
Cheap, John Joseph, b. 1928
Cheap, Alice Veronica, 1887-1945
Cheap, George Clement, 1924-1986
Cheap, Catherine Mary, 1914-1991
Cheap, Vincent Frances, 1923-1963
Cheap, Mary Joesphine, b. 1919 or 20
Cheap, Paul Augustine, 1917-2003
Cheap, Albert Charles, 1911-1975
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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