Cheap family with thirteen children, Los Angeles, 1933

Item Overview

Title

Cheap family with thirteen children, Los Angeles, 1933

Date Created

[circa February 18, 1933]

Date

1933-02-18

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

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.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: CHEAP, ALBERT & FAMILY society

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Group portraits

Names

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

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Longitude

34.031893

Latitude

-118.297281

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Family members--American--California--Los Angeles
Group portraits