From left standing: Miss Grace Pollock, Leader; Mrs. Forsch; Miss Margaret Speed, Head Resident. Others in picture include Mrs. Hattie Lynam, Mrs. William Lynam, Mrs. Ed. LaDuke, Mrs. Thomas Montgomery
This is likely a promotional postcard created after the publication of Alice Hegan Rice’s Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, depicting the fictional mother’s home in this rural-industrial neighborhood.
The first Cabbage Patch Settlement House built for the purpose was constructed in late 1910 or early 1911, at 1461 Ninth Street (the second house from Burnett). In an interview, founder Louise Marshall remembered, “There was just one room and a closet on the first floor, and then at the back of the house you went upstairs to the second floor. We had a side yard that we played in and we had the first floor as a playroom and the upstairs we fixed for living quarters…. Upstairs we had, in addition to the living quarters, a children’s library and an adult library that was a branch of the public library.”
The passport photo of Louise Marshall from 1918. Louise Marshall was the founder of the Cabbage Patch Settlement House; she took a break from her work with the institution to join the Red Cross efforts in France after World War I.