Alice, John, Dorothy, George, Teresa, Vincent, and Mary Cheap play a game in their front yard, Los Angeles, 1933

Item Overview

Title

Alice, John, Dorothy, George, Teresa, Vincent, and Mary Cheap play a game in their front yard, Los Angeles, 1933

Date Created

February 19, 1933

Date

1933-02-19

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

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.

Caption

Text from newspaper caption: There is always a game going on in the Cheap front yard.
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

Names

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

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Games--California--Los Angeles
Families--American--California--Los Angeles