Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. The End Poverty in California (EPIC) was a political movement and the basis of the campaign of Upton Sinclair, a socialist writer, for governor of California in 1934. Photo published with this article, "Epic Baby Disgusted With Present Politics," Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 1935: A1. Photograph of Upton Sinclair Marshaw seated in the lap of his mother, Marie Marshaw, who wears a dress and cloche hat. Upton wears a shirt with a sail boat embroidered on the front with a bead necklace and toddler booties. He is holding his parents' torn Epic campaign cards. Text from negative sleeve: 3126. Mrs. Marie Marshaw, Upton Sinclair Marshaw. 12/10/35. [Stamped:] DEC 11 1935. Text from newspaper caption: Eighteen-months-old Upton Sinclair Marshaw, disgusted with alphabet soup, has just torn up his parents' Epic campaign cards. His mother, Mrs. Marie Marshaw, shown holding him, says she's going to vote Republican next year. Times photo.
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image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_10943 ark:/21198/zz002hb2sn
Subject
Mothers--California--Los Angeles Children--California--Los Angeles Political campaigns--California Marshaw, Upton Sinclair, 1934-2000 Townsend, Marie Olive Kennedy Marshaw, 1902-1976
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