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Title
Alice, John, Dorothy, George, Teresa, Vincent, and Mary Cheap play a game in their front yard, Los Angeles, 1933
Date Created and/or Issued
February 19, 1933
1933-02-19
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.
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.
On the front lawn the children hold hands to form a circle.
Text from newspaper caption: There is always a game going on in the Cheap front yard.
Text from negative sleeve: CHEAP, ALBERT & FAMILY society
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_1637
ark:/21198/zz002dc4kq
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Games--California--Los Angeles
Families--American--California--Los Angeles
Cheap, Dorothy Patricia, b. 1928
Cheap, Mary Joesphine, b. 1919 or 20
Cheap, Teresa Carmel, 1926-2007
Cheap, John Joseph, b. 1928
Cheap, George Clement, 1924-1986
Cheap, Vincent Frances, 1923-1963
Cheap, Alice Pauline, 1920-1980
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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