Baby is rich : Mrs. Earl Pesta

Mrs. Earl Pesta holds her yawning baby son, Earl Junior. Next to them are a pile of pennies and a glass jar filled with pennies. A wall lamp illuminates the scene. Mrs. Pesta and her husband saved 5,000 pennies in anticipation of the baby’s birth.

Publication date: 1937-07-06

Size: 10 x 5.3 cm

Publisher: Tribune Company

Print type: grayscale

Language:

• English

Geography:

• Ohio

Subject(s):

• Yawning--1930-1940
• Mother and child--1930-1940
• Lamps--1930-1940
• Pesta, Earl, Mrs.
• Pesta, Earl, Jr.
• Infants--Ohio--1930-1940
• Mothers--Ohio--1930-1940
• Coins--American--Ohio--1930-1940

Genre(s):

• Photographs
• Portrait photographs

Type(s):

• still image
• text

Copyright(s):

• These materials are either in the public domain, according to U.S. copyright law, or permission has been obtained from rights owners. The digital version and supplementary materials are available for all educational uses worldwide.

Is part of:

• The Janet A. Ginsburg Chicago Tribune Image Collection

Source(s):

• Chicago Daily Tribune (July 6, 1937), Section One, p. 10

Format(s):

• application/pdf
• image/jpeg

Contributor(s):

• Associated Press