The Filson Historical Society Digital Projects

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  • 019PC48_F46_001.jpg

    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 can found at the far left of the photograph with glasses on.
  • 019PC48_F44_001.jpg

    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.
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