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  • Barry Bingham Sr., as a young man kneeling with a dog.
  • Henrietta Bingham (Left), poses with her brother Barry Sr. and Mary Bingham in Antibes, France during Barry and Mary's honeymoon.
  • British Ambassador Robert W. Bingham (1871-1937) walking with dignitary in England.
  • Photograph of a farewell dinner, attended by several hundred people, for Judge Robert W. Bingham, American Ambassador to the Court of St. James, seated on the dais at the Brown Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky.
  • Photograph of Judge Robert W. Bingham (1871-1937) carrying a cigarette and walking on the street with Courier-Journal correspondent Ulric Bell.
  • The Bingham family, including in-laws Joan Bingham and Whitney Ellsworth gathered with the family dog in front of the mantle in the Music Room at the "Big House" in Melcombe, Glenview, Kentucky.
  • A photograph of children and faculty from the Louisville, Kentucky Cabbage Patch Settlement House outside of an unspecified government building in Washington D.C with Kentucky Senator Thruston Ballard Morton. Two copies of this picture are in file; one copy dates the photograph to the August of 1966 while the other copy dates the photograph to the September of the same year. Notes in the Cabbage Patch file indicate that the Cabbage Patch children took camping trips to Washington D.C on at least five occasions; senator Morton hosted the Cabbage Patch children twice. This is the second trip that was hosted by Morton, the first having taken place in 1962. Senator Morton is in the far right of the photograph. Also included in the photograph is Roosevelt Chin, a lifetime Cabbage Patch faculty member, who can be found in the top center of the photograph. Also included in the photograph is Joe Burks, a Cabbage Patch coach and organizer, who is visible in the far left of the photograph with glasses on.
  • Photograph of children and faculty at the Louisville, Kentucky Cabbage Patch Settlement House and arranged around a table; they appear to be replicating the last supper. They are in costume. The picture is not dated. In interviews, lifelong Cabbage Patch faculty member Roosevelt Chin claimed that the Cabbage Patch would put on multiple extravagant Bible story plays on holidays. These plays would be written by Roosevelt Chin and Mrs. John R. Green, who ran the Cabbage Patch Sewing School. Sceneries would by constructed by Roosevelt Chin and the Sewing School children; the costumes would be made from scraps collected from rummage sales by the Sewing School children.
  • A photograph of children and faculty from the Louisville, Kentucky Cabbage Patch Settlement House drinking soda and sitting on the floor in the office of Louisville Senator Thruston Ballard Morton in Washington D.C. An inscription on the bottom of the photograph dates the photograph to the August of 1962. Notes in the Cabbage Patch file indicate that the Cabbage Patch children took camping trips to Washington D.C on at least five occasions; senator Morton hosted the Cabbage Patch children twice. This 1962 trip to D.C was allegedly the only Cabbage Patch camping trip attended by Cabbage Patch founder Louise Marshall. Miss Marshall can be found in the far left of this photograph. Also in this photograph, also on the left side, is Roosevelt Chin, a lifelong worker for the Cabbage Patch. Senator Morton is at the top of the photograph, near the center, in a dark suit and tie.
  • A photograph of the Cabbage Patch Settlement House football team, dated 1956. The team includes both Black and white children. The Cabbage Patch Settlement House desegregated their football team in the 50s. In interviews, the lifetime Cabbage Patch worker Roosevelt Chin claimed that the Cabbage Patch was "the very first" youth group in Louisville to desegregate. One member of this desegregated football team, Sherman Lewis, would go on to become a Super Bowl winning offensive coach.
  • Photograph of real estate developer James Taylor in front of his Tudor Revival home at 6600 Shirley Avenue in the James T. Taylor Subdivision of Louisville, Kentucky.
  • Photograph of Abramson's Market in Louisville, KY. Located in Louisville’s historic Smoketown neighborhood in the western part of Louisville’s dissipating urban Jewish core, the store was run by Sidney and Roy Abramson.
  • Photograph of Jerry Abramson and staff opening Abramson for Mayor campaign headquarters in Mid-City Mall, February 1985
  • Campaign for 3rd Ward Alderman, mid-1970s. Jerry Abramson with Mayor Harvey Sloane
  • Photograph of the dedication ceremony for the Germantown-Paristown Neighborhood Center. Mayor Jerry Abramson is handing over the scissors to cut the ribbon.
  • Jerry Abramson posing with his parents Roy and Shirley, likely during a campaign event ca. 1985.
  • Photograph portrait of Madeline Abramson holding Sidney Abramson.
  • Photographic portrait of Madeline and Jerry Abramson.
  • Photograph of brothers Morris, Sidney, and Lester. The back of the photograph reads"3 Brothers. (L to R) Morris and Ruth; Sidney and Sadie; Lester and Ida."
  • Photograph of Roy Abramson, Jerry Abramson, and Shirley Abramson
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