Upton Sinclair Marshaw with his mother, Marie Marshaw, Los Angeles, 1935

Item Overview

Title

Upton Sinclair Marshaw with his mother, Marie Marshaw, Los Angeles, 1935

Date Created

December 19, 1935

Date

1935-12-19

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

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.

Caption

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.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Marshaw, Upton Sinclair, 1934-2000
Townsend, Marie Olive Kennedy Marshaw, 1902-1976

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Mothers--California--Los Angeles
Children--California--Los Angeles
Political campaigns--California