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Textual folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-068-001
This photograph album, compiled by Kathleen “Kick” Kennedy, documents various moments in the lives of the Kennedy family between 1922 and 1944, with most materials dating between 1931 and 1944. The gold stamped title on the cover reads, “Photographs.” Photographs capture Kathleen with family and friends at the Kennedy family’s residences in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts; Bronxville, New York; and Palm Beach, Florida. Other photographs capture family members and friends in Plymouth, Massachusetts; at the American Embassy in London, England; aboard an ocean liner traveling from England to the United States; and at various other locations. In addition to Kathleen, those pictured include her parents, Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy; her grandparents, John F. “Honey Fitz” Fitzgerald and Mary Josephine Hannon Fitzgerald; her siblings, Joseph P. “Joe” Kennedy, Jr., John F. "Jack" Kennedy, Rosemary Kennedy, Eunice Kennedy, Patricia “Pat” Kennedy, Robert F. “Bobby/Bob” Kennedy, Jean Kennedy, and Edward M. “Ted” Kennedy; her aunt, Agnes Fitzgerald Gargan, and uncle, Joseph Francis Gargan, Sr.; her cousins, John F. “Jackie” Fitzgerald, Marion Eunice Fitzgerald, Mary Jo Gargan, Joseph Francis “Joey” Gargan, Jr., and Ann Gargan; nanny to the Kennedy children, Katherine “Kicko/Kiko” Conboy; governesses to the Kennedy children, Alice Cahill and Elizabeth Dunn; nurse to the Kennedy children, Luella Hennessey; and Kennedy family friends, Edward E. Moore, Sally Bottomley, Anne McDonnell, Mary Frances "Sancy" Falvey, Grover Loening, Tom Killefer, Kirk LeMoyne “Lem” Billings, Max O’Rell Truitt, Paul Jerome "Boogie" Chase, Harriet “Etsie” Wells, David L. “Dave” Hackett, and Michael J. “Mike” Egan. Other friends identified in original captions and inscriptions include Mary Louise Ghert, Mary Hubbard, Donald “Donny” Cobb, Tommy Dean, Joey Crowley, Jean Duff, “Rita,” “Jimmy,” “Frances,” “Frankie,” and “Barbara,” as well as a woman named “Mrs. Greene,” identified as Jean’s godmother. Also pictured are horses and other animals, including two of the Kennedy family’s dogs, Fury and Spooky, as well as boats, including Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.'s yacht, the “Davilis.” Original handwritten captions are written in blue and black ink and pencil on many of the leaves and on the versos of some photographs. This photograph album contains 191 photographic prints and three photographic postcards.
Textual folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-058-001
This photograph album, compiled by Kathleen "Kick" Kennedy, documents her life during the years 1935 to 1937, when she spent time abroad attending the Holy Child School in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, and traveling with family and friends before returning to the United States to complete her education at the Noroton School of the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Noroton Heights, Connecticut. The stamped title on the cover reads, “Pictures.” Photographs capture her time spent in Gstaad, Switzerland, for the 1935 Christmas holiday; sightseeing in Paris, France; a tour of Italy with friends from March to April 1936; a trip to Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) and Moscow, Russia, with her mother, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, in May 1936; a visit to England with friends in June 1936; sailing on Cape Cod in the summer of 1936; Christmas in Palm Beach, Florida, in 1936; and a trip to Ireland and Scotland with her brother, Joseph P. "Joe" Kennedy, Jr., in August 1937. Also included are numerous photographs of Kathleen and her classmates at both the Holy Child School and the Noroton School. Of note are photographs of Prime Minister of Italy, Benito Mussolini; Nazi soldiers marching in Berlin, Germany; Michelangelo’s David statue at its original location in Florence, Italy; Mt. Vesuvius and the ruins at Pompeii, Italy; and Kathleen kissing the Blarney Stone at Blarney Castle in Ireland. Other Kennedy family members, friends, and classmates of Kathleen’s pictured include Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.; John F. Kennedy; Rosemary Kennedy; Eunice Kennedy; Patricia Kennedy; Robert F. Kennedy; Jean Kennedy; Edward M. Kennedy; Alexander William Guy “Alex” de Pourtales; Eleanor “Ellie” Hoguet; Derek Richardson; Frederick Sinclair “Freddy” Carson; Lawrence “Larry” Wilkinson; Anne McDonnell; Charlotte McDonnell; Torbert “Torb” Macdonald; Sir James Calder; Lady Mildred Calder; Jim McColl; Kirk LeMoyne “Lem” Billings; Ralph “Rip” Horton; Elizabeth “Betty” Rice; Mary Veronica “Von” Rice; Sonio Coletti-Petrucca; Allison Garver; and Edith Garver. This photograph album contains 331 photographic prints.
Textual folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-054-001
This scrapbook, compiled by Joseph P. “Joe” Kennedy, Jr., documents his education, travels, and family life between 1932 and 1938. The title on the cover reads, “Album.” The scrapbook contains photographs of and printed ephemera related to his studies at the London School of Economics (1933-1934) and Harvard University (1934-1938), as well as time spent with family and friends at the Kennedy family residences in Bronxville in New York, Palm Beach in Florida, and Hyannis Port in Massachusetts, and traveling in Europe. Destinations pictured include Switzerland, England, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Scotland, Russia, Ukraine, Austria, Bermuda, Georgia, and France. Of note are telegrams from Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy to their son; photographs of Joe, Jr., skiing with friends in Zermatt, Switzerland; two portrait cards from the Residenz Museum in Munich, Germany; photographic postcards featuring images of the 1934 performance of the Oberammergau Passion Play in Bavaria, Germany; an invitation from First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt to Joe, Jr., for an event at the White House; materials related to Joe, Jr.’s athletic career at Harvard, where he participated in football, swimming, and rugby, including photographs of the 1936 Bermuda Rugby Week competition; a Bermuda Islands court summons issued to “Joseph Kennedy” and dated March 30, 1936; and telegrams sent to Joe, Jr., for his birthday. Kennedy family members and friends pictured in photographs and clippings include Joseph, Sr.; Rose; John F. “Honey Fitz” Fitzgerald; John F. Kennedy; Rosemary Kennedy; Kathleen Kennedy; Eunice Kennedy; Patricia Kennedy; Robert F. Kennedy; Jean Kennedy; Edward M. Kennedy; Kirk LeMoyne “Lem” Billings; nanny to the Kennedy children, Katherine Conboy; Edward E. Moore and Mary Moore; Sir James Calder; and economist Harold Laski. Handwritten captions and inscriptions are written in blue and black ink on many of the leaves. This scrapbook contains 224 photographic prints (including three tintypes), 53 newspaper and magazine clippings, and 36 photographic postcards, as well as telegrams, letters, invitations, menus, tickets, picture postcards, calling cards, and other types of printed ephemera.
Textual folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-053-001
This scrapbook, compiled by John F. "Jack" Kennedy, documents his time at the Choate School in Wallingford, Connecticut, from 1933 to 1935. The front cover features the school seal stamped in gold. The title page reads, “The National Memory and Fellowship Book,” with a nameplate reading, “John F. Kennedy / West Wing - Choate School / Wallingford, Conn / 1933.” The first half of the scrapbook consists of pre-printed pages with space for signatures and messages from classmates, photographs and printed ephemera, and Jack’s notes on his academic and athletic endeavors, social activities, and daily life. Many of these pages are pre-printed with topical titles, including “Faculty and Campus,” “Student Hall of Fame,” “Comparative Athletic Record,” “Clubs and Societies,” “School and Social Functions,” “My Favorites,” “Entertainments, Lectures, Plays,” and “Memorable Trips.” Topical pages are followed by monthly dated calendar pages, some of which contain original handwritten entries in black and blue ink and pencil. The second half of the scrapbook consists of blank leaves that contain newspaper clippings; photographs; correspondence; printed ephemera, including invitations, tickets, membership cards, pamphlets, business cards, and programs; and other items pertaining to Jack’s education at Choate and his activities during that time. Of note are photographs of Jack and his classmates who formed the “Muckers” club, including Ross Edwards Allen; Roy Oliver “Bob” Beach, Jr.; Kirk LeMoyne “Lem” Billings; Paul J. “Boogie” Chase; Ralph D. “Rip” Horton; Charles Edward Marsh II; Irving Hudson Meehan, Jr.; John Whiting Morse; Charles “Butch” Schriber II; Maurice Arthur “Maure/Moe” Shea, Jr.; and James DeWitt “Smoky/Smokey” Wilde III. Also included are invitations to events at the White House; handwritten birthday messages in black and blue ink to Jack from his mother, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, and older brother, Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr.; an autograph from the writer Gertrude Stein; a handwritten letter in black ink from star Harvard University football player Huntington Reed “Tack” Hardwick; a receipt for a $2.50 fine paid to the Palm Beach Police Department in Florida; autographed photographs from members of the Choate football team, including Gordon Thayer Barlow, Bob Beach, Hugh De Neufville “Bud” Wynne, Lem Billings, Irving Hudson Meehan, Jr., William Joseph “Bill” Albinger, and Moe Shea; and a postcard sent to Jack by his mother from aboard the S.S. Bremen. Also featured in photographs, clippings, and other materials in the scrapbook are Jack’s father, Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.; his sister, Kathleen Kennedy, and brother, Robert F. Kennedy; his grandfather, John F. “Honey Fitz” Fitzgerald; family friends, Edward E. Moore and Mary Moore; Choate School headmaster, George Clair St. John; English teacher, Harold L. Tinker; members of Choate yearbook (“The Brief”) committee, for which Jack was the Business Manager; and other classmates and friends, including Ruth Marian Quigley (later Moffett), Ruth Moffett (later Johnson), Olive Cawley, Thomas Morgan Schriber, Charles Nelson “Charlie” Hoyt, Adelaide Moffett, Gloria Baker, Eleanor Young, Katherine Barker, and Helen Barker. Locations pictured in photographs include the Choate School campus and the Kennedy family home and surrounding area in Palm Beach. The scrapbook contains a selection of loose materials that were enclosed in an envelope adhered to the inside back cover; many of these items pre- and post-date the scrapbook itself and represent dates from 1929 through 1950. Original handwritten entries, captions, and inscriptions are written in black and blue ink on many of the leaves. This scrapbook contains 88 newspaper clippings, 78 photographic prints, and 74 other items, including correspondence and printed ephemera.
Textual folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-050-001
This photograph album, compiled by Eunice Kennedy, documents events in the lives of the Kennedy family from 1927 to 1946. An original typed inscription taped to the inside front cover reads, "I should appreciate it if no one remove pictures from this book. If you do so, it will not be so interesting for other people. Personally, I should like to keep all the pictures to look at myself, because as you know we lost all the moving pictures of you children. Many of these pictures have been lost in the past, due to the clamor of newspapermen, so please do not remove any more. Thank you. Rose Kennedy." Those pictured in photographs include Eunice Kennedy; her parents, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy and Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.; her siblings, Joseph P. “Joe” Kennedy, Jr., John F. “Jack” Kennedy, Rosemary Kennedy, Kathleen Kennedy, Patricia “Pat” Kennedy, Robert F. “Bob” Kennedy, Jean Kennedy, and Edward M. “Ted” Kennedy; her grandparents, John F. “Honey Fitz” Fitzgerald and Mary Josephine Hannon Fitzgerald; and family friends, including Tom Killefer, former Boston Police Commissioner Joseph F. Timilty, Patricia “Pat” Skakel, Ethel Skakel, Hugh Fraser, Torbert “Torb” Macdonald, John J. "London Jack" Kennedy, John Jacob "Jakie" Astor, and Tom Egerton. Of note are photographs of Joe, Jr., dressed in drag with his Harvard University football teammates; Rose, Jack, and Eunice in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Jack with his parents and grandparents on the night of his victory in the 1946 primary election for the Massachusetts 11th Congressional District; Joe, Jr., and Kathleen in Spain; the entire Kennedy family at the Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes, France, and other locations during a trip to the French Riviera; and the family at their residence in Palm Beach, Florida. Original handwritten captions are written in blue ink on the leaves beneath some photographs. This photograph album contains 58 photographic prints.
Textual folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-048-001
This photograph album, compiled by Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, documents the lives of the Kennedy family from 1925 to 1937. The gold stamped title on the cover reads, “Photographs.” Photographs capture their home life at their primary residences in Brookline, Massachusetts, and Bronxville, New York; time spent with family and friends at their secondary residences in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, and Palm Beach, Florida; and other travels and events. The album also contains numerous portrait photos. Those pictured in photographs include Rose; her husband, Joseph P. “Joe” Kennedy, Sr.; her children, Joseph P. “Joe” Kennedy, Jr., John F. “Jack” Kennedy, Rosemary Kennedy, Kathleen Kennedy, Eunice Kennedy, Patricia Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Jean Kennedy, and Edward M. Kennedy; her parents, John F. “Honey Fitz” Fitzgerald and Mary Josephine Hannon Fitzgerald; her sister, Agnes Fitzgerald, and brother-in-law, Joseph Francis Gargan, Sr.; governess to the Kennedy children, Alice Cahill; nanny to the Kennedy children, Katherine Conboy; and family friends, Viscountess Nancy Astor, Kirk LeMoyne “Lem” Billings, and Mary O’Keefe. Of note are photographs of Rose and Joe, Sr., aboard the S.S. Aquitania during their voyage to New York City from Europe in 1928; the wedding of Agnes and Joseph Gargan; Joe, Jr., and Jack with their football teams at the Dexter School in Brookline, Massachusetts; and Rose and Joe, Sr., with actor Fred Thomson and screenwriter Frances Marion in California. Original handwritten inscriptions are written in black ink and pencil on the versos of some photographs. This photograph album contains 81 photographic prints.
Textual folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-047-001
This photograph album was first compiled by Rosemary Kennedy as a birthday gift for her sister, Kathleen “Kick” Kennedy, in 1929, with later photographs added by Kathleen. The gold stamped title on the cover reads, “Photographs.” An original handwritten inscription on the inside front cover reads, "Kathleen, From Rose happy birthday Feb. 1929," in white ink. Original captions are written in white ink and pencil in both Rosemary’s and Kathleen’s hand. Photographs document the family life, travels, and social activities of the Kennedy family from 1927 to 1936. In addition to Rosemary (referred to as “Rose” in original captions) and Kathleen, those pictured include their parents, Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy; their siblings, Joseph P. “Joe” Kennedy, Jr., John F. "Jack" Kennedy, Eunice Kennedy, Patricia "Pat" Kennedy, Jean Kennedy, and Edward M. "Ted/Teddy" Kennedy; their aunt, Agnes Fitzgerald Gargan, and her husband Joseph Francis Gargan, Sr.; governesses to the Kennedy children, Alice Cahill and Elizabeth Dunn; nanny to the Kennedy children, Katherine “Kikoo” Conboy; family friends, Edward E. “Eddie” Moore, Kirk LeMoyne “Lem” Billings, Mary O’Keefe, Mary Veronica “Von” Rice, and Mary Frances "Sancy" Falvey; and family dogs, Buddy and Skippy. Of note are photographs of Kennedy family members and friends at the family’s residences in Bronxville in New York, Hyannis Port in Massachusetts, and Palm Beach in Florida; a visit to the Hippodrome Theatre in New York City, where the children posed with a baby elephant; Joseph, Sr., and Rose with actor Fred Thomson and screenwriter Frances Marion in California; and Kathleen and other campers and counselors at Sargent Camp in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Other locations and historic sites featured in photographs include the White House and United States Capitol building in Washington, D.C.; the National Monument to the Forefathers and Plymouth Rock in Plymouth, Massachusetts; the Potomac River; and George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate in Virginia. Original handwritten inscriptions are written in blue ink and pencil on the versos of many photographs. This photograph album contains 154 photographic prints, two photographic postcards, and one contact print of a strip of four 35mm black and white negatives.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF46-004
This folder contains material pertaining to Walter W. Heller's participation in a meeting with President Kennedy about the economic message, which was held in Palm Beach, Florida, on Tuesday, December 26, 1961. It includes Heller's handwritten notes.
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01025N
Kathleen Kennedy sits on a wicker lounge chair on the lawn outside the Kennedy family home in Palm Beach, Florida.
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01022N
Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., swims in the pool at the Kennedy family home in Palm Beach, Florida. [Notes: Fogging along bottom edge of image is original to the negative.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01027N
An unidentified woman (left) and man sit in wicker patio chairs outdoors in Palm Beach, Florida. [Notes: Negative is out of focus and image is underexposed.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01026N
Kathleen Kennedy (right) sits beside an unidentified woman outdoors in Palm Beach, Florida, during the Christmas holiday.
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01021N
View of an ostrich behind an enclosure at the Ostrich-Alligator Farm & Zoo in Lantana, Palm Beach County, Florida.
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01018N
View of an outdoor swimming pool at The Breakers Hotel, Palm Beach, Florida.
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01016N
Rosemary Kennedy (left) and Kathleen Kennedy swim in the pool at The Breakers Hotel, Palm Beach, Florida.
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01014N
The Kennedy family children pose sitting in the sand on the beach at The Breakers Hotel, Palm Beach, Florida; the hotel is visible in the background. Left to right: Robert F. Kennedy, Patricia Kennedy, Edward M. Kennedy, and Jean Kennedy.
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01013N
The Kennedy family children pose sitting in the sand with their nanny, Katherine Conboy, on the beach at The Breakers Hotel, Palm Beach, Florida. Left to right: Jean Kennedy, Ms. Conboy, Edward M. Kennedy, Patricia Kennedy, and Robert F. Kennedy.
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01033N
Robert F. Kennedy (center) stands in the courtyard of the Kennedy family home in Palm Beach, Florida; Patricia Kennedy (seated in foreground at left, facing away from camera) looks on. Kennedy family friend Kirk LeMoyne "Lem" Billings and an unidentified man sit in wicker chairs at right. [Notes: Original caption from vintage print in album KFC-049-001 reads, "Palm Beach, 1934, Pat."
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01159N
Exterior view of the Kennedy family home in Palm Beach, Florida. [Notes: See also vintage print in album KFC-046-001. Streaking in left portion of image is original to the negative.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00910N
Exterior view of the Kennedy family home in Palm Beach, Florida.
Textual folder
John F. Kennedy Personal Papers
JFKPP-004-062
This folder contains a letter to John F. Kennedy from a man identified only as "Johnny" concerning recent events and activities in Palm Beach, Florida.
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00886N
John F. "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald (wearing a bathing costume) stands in the sand in Palm Beach, Florida. [Notes: See also vintage print in album KFC-042-001.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00807N
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (right) poses with her parents, Mary Josephine Hannon Fitzgerald and John F. "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald, in Palm Beach, Florida.
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00806N
Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. (right), stands in a field with his father-in-law, John F. "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald (holding a cane), and mother-in-law, Mary Josephine Hannon Fitzgerald, in Palm Beach, Florida.
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00805N
Two unidentified men stand beside a palm tree in Palm Beach, Florida.