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David F. Powers Personal Papers
DFPPP-018-014
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David F. Powers Personal Papers
DFPPP-018-013
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Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis Personal Papers
JBKOPP-SF005-005
This file contains correspondence of a general nature between the office of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy and various individuals, and materials regarding the Kennedy family crest and coat of arms.
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Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis Personal Papers
JBKOPP-SF042-008
This folder contains correspondence between White House Social Secretary Letitia Baldrige and Joseph H. Weaver of General Mills, Inc., regarding a request for Kennedy family recipes for inclusion in the Betty Crocker Picture Cookbook.
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Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis Personal Papers
JBKOPP-SF038-026
This folder contains menus for numerous meals, including those in honor of foreign heads of state, and recipes for Saint-Honore cake, boula-boula soup, and cream of oyster soup. This folder contains French-language materials.
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Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis Personal Papers
JBKOPP-SF037-009
This folder contains memoranda and notes between White House Social Secretary Letitia Baldrige and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy regarding gifts for White House staff, friends, and family members; and lists of recipients of holiday greeting cards including government officials, members of Congress, and ambassadors to and from the United States.
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Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis Personal Papers
JBKOPP-SF037-008
This folder contains memoranda and notes between White House Social Secretary Letitia Baldrige and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy regarding gifts for White House staff, Secret Service agents, friends, and family members; and a list of chiefs of state of foreign countries to receive holiday greeting cards.
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Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis Personal Papers
JBKOPP-SF036-007
This folder contains recipes for desserts including Saint-Honore cake, crème brûlée, and soufflé froid au chocolat.
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Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis Personal Papers
JBKOPP-SF036-006
This folder contains recipes for vegetable dishes including potatoes suzette, Belgian endive, and braised tomatoes. Also included is a recipe for marinated tomatoes by Nancy Salinger, wife of White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger.
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Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis Personal Papers
JBKOPP-SF036-005
This folder contains recipes for main courses including polenta ed uccelletti, lamb curry, chicken breasts with noodles, and beef stroganoff. This folder contains some French-language material.
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Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis Personal Papers
JBKOPP-SF036-004
This folder contains recipes for soups including iced tomato, boula-boula, consommé julienne, and New England fish chowder.
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Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis Personal Papers
JBKOPP-SF035-024
This file contains drafts and a copy of a press release regarding a painting by French artist Claude Monet titled, "Morning on the Seine, Good Weather," given as a gift to the White House by the Kennedy family in honor of President John F. Kennedy.
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Jean Stein Personal Papers
JSTPP-010-003
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Jean Stein Personal Papers
JSTPP-008-011
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David F. Powers Personal Papers
DFPPP-006-001
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Godfrey T. McHugh
JFKWHSFGTM-021-016
This folder contained eighteen photograph prints that have been transferred to White House Staff Files of Godfrey T. McHugh Box PH01. The images are in two groups. The first group contains publicity photographs and shows press and photographers touring the facilities; the second group is an accounting of the furnishings, with hand-written inventory numbers inscribed on the photographs indicating each piece of furniture seen.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Godfrey T. McHugh
JFKWHSFGTM-021-015
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Jean Stein Personal Papers
JSTPP-001-023
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William Walton Personal Papers
WWPP-001-005
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Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-080-001
This volume, compiled by Kathleen Kennedy, chronicles her service as a Staff Assistant for the American Red Cross in London, England, during World War II, primarily between May and July, 1943. A handwritten note in pencil on the front cover reads, “Kathleen Hartington / [Keep/Keys(?)] Keep RFK / July 1949.” Diary entries are inscribed directly on the pre-printed ruled pages in pencil and black ink, as well as typed on the back of American Red Cross notepaper sheets. In her diary entries, Kathleen writes about the completion of her Red Cross training; her preparations for and departure to England, including crossing the Atlantic Ocean aboard the R.M.S. Queen Mary, converted to a troopship; her work at American Red Cross service clubs in London; and dinners, parties, weekend trips, and other social events. Of note is an undated, unstamped, and blank telegram with a handwritten note in black ink signed, "Your loving brother : Kennedy," inserted at the front of the book. Also of note are three handwritten letters written in black or blue ink between Kathleen and her husband, William “Billy” Cavendish, the Marquess of Hartington, placed in an envelope addressed to “Capt. : The Marquess of Hartington : 5th Bn.: Coldstream Guards : British Liberation Army,” in Kathleen’s hand, postmarked July 17, 1944. This volume contains 30 telegrams, 10 typed diary entries, five handwritten letters, four newspaper clippings, three photographic prints, two magazine clippings, and various printed ephemera, including a schedule, vaccine card, matchbox, invitation, shipping ticket, menu, handwritten notes, and miscellaneous booklets and pamphlets.
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Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-078-001
This scrapbook, compiled by Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, contains newspaper clippings and a photographic print documenting Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., receiving his commission as ensign in the United States Naval Reserve from his father, Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., on May 5, 1942, in Jacksonville, Florida. The title on the front cover reads, “Ensign Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. U.S.N.R. / May 5, 1942”; the front cover also features a gold embroidered patch of the U.S. Naval Aviator insignia. This scrapbook contains 128 newspaper clippings and one photographic print.
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Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-049-002
This photograph album, compiled by Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, documents various moments in the lives of the Kennedy family from 1933 to 1936. Photographs capture Rose and her family at their residences in Hyannis Port in Massachusetts, Bronxville in New York, and Palm Beach in Florida; at the beach at The Breakers Hotel and at the Sea Spray Club in Palm Beach; at the Ostrich-Alligator Farm & Zoo in Lantana, Palm Beach County; and at the West Beach Club on Cape Cod. Also of note are photographs of Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter celebrations; birthday parties for Eunice Kennedy and Jean Kennedy; a Native American sun dance ceremony in Palm Beach; gymnastics exercises and boxing matches at the Sea Spray Club, in which Robert F. “Bobby/Bob” Kennedy and Edward M. “Ted” Kennedy participated; Jean dressed for her First Communion and Confirmation in Bronxville; Ted’s picnic on the lawn of the family’s home in Bronxville with a friend identified as “Rita”; a visit to a warship in Provincetown, Massachusetts; Jean dressed in a Scottish tartan and kilt; and other activities including swimming, sailing, sledding, horseback riding, football, and other sports. Other Kennedy family members and friends pictured in photographs include Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.; Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr.; John F. “Jack” Kennedy; Rosemary Kennedy (referred to as “Rose” in original captions); Kathleen “Kick” Kennedy; Patricia “Pat” Kennedy; Rose’s parents, John F. “Honey Fitz” Fitzgerald and Mary Josephine Hannon Fitzgerald; Rose’s sister, Agnes Fitzgerald Gargan, and brother-in-law, Joseph F. Gargan, Sr.; Rose’s niece, Marion Eunice Fitzgerald, and nephew, John F. “Jack” Fitzgerald (the children of her brother, Thomas A. Fitzgerald); nanny to the Kennedy children, Katherine “Kikoo” Conboy; governess to the Kennedy children, Alice Cahill; Edward E. Moore and Mary Moore; James Roosevelt, son of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Betsey Cushing Roosevelt; Jean K. Webber; Eileen Morell; Frances “Sancy” Falvey; Mary O’Keefe; Olive Cawley; Nancy Tenney; and Jack’s Choate School classmate, Thomas Morgan Schriber. Others identified in original captions include, “Francis,” “Tommy,” “Gilbert,” “Miss Hood,” “Jean’s godmother” (“Mrs. Greene”), and “Mary.” All leaves contain original handwritten captions in white ink, although the handwriting does not belong to Rose and the writer has not been determined. This photograph album contains 322 photographic prints, two photographic postcards, and one photograph fragment.
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Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-092-001
This scrapbook is a self-published work that documents John F. Kennedy’s political career from the perspective of the volume’s creator, 1960 presidential campaign volunteer, founder of the Allen Dental Medical Corporation, and Kennedy family friend, Frank Allen Orofino (known professionally as Frank Allen). A limited number of copies of the scrapbook were made for President Kennedy’s family, friends, and associates; the full list of recipients is included at the end of the scrapbook. An original typed inscription taped to the inside front free endpaper reads, “Dedicated in gratitude to Mr. & Mrs. Joseph P. Kennedy and Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy who shared with this country and the world John Fitzgerald Kennedy." The handwritten inscription in black ink below the typed inscription reads, "In friendship to Mr. & Mrs. Joseph P. Kennedy / Frank Allen Orofino / Vol I / '68." A typed preface written by Orofino is also included. The scrapbook contains materials related to President Kennedy’s United States Senate career, his 1960 presidential campaign, and his presidency. It contains facsimiles of correspondence between Orofino and members of the Kennedy family, including Senator (later President) John F. Kennedy; First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy; Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.; Eunice Kennedy Shriver; Patricia "Pat" Kennedy Lawford; Robert F. "Bob" Kennedy and Ethel Skakel Kennedy; and Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy. It also contains facsimiles of correspondence between Orofino and various associates of the President and First Lady, including the President’s personal secretary, Evelyn Lincoln; Jacqueline Kennedy’s personal secretary, Mary Gallagher; campaign aide and later Special Assistant to the President, Lawrence “Larry” O'Brien; White House housekeeper Anne Lincoln; White House Secret Service agent, John J. "Muggsy" O'Leary; Governor of Florida, Farris Bryant; Boston Secret Service agent, Frank V. McDermott; and Kennedy family financial advisor, Thomas J. Walsh. Photographs are accompanied by facsimiles of Orofino’s handwritten captions and notations. Those pictured in photographs include President and Mrs. Kennedy; Caroline Kennedy; John F. Kennedy, Jr.; Joseph, Sr.; Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy; Patricia; Bob; Jean Kennedy Smith and Stephen E. Smith; Ted; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Lady Bird Johnson; campaign aide and later White House Press Secretary, Pierre Salinger, and Nancy Joy Salinger; entertainer Frank Sinatra; Archbishop of New York, Cardinal Francis Spellman; Mary and Ray Gallagher and their children, Christopher and Gregory Gallagher; Larry O’Brien; secretary to then-Senator Kennedy and later Mrs. Kennedy’s Press Secretary, Pamela Turnure; presidential campaign manager and later special assistant to President Kennedy, Timothy J. “Ted” Reardon, Jr., and Betty Jane Reardon; John J. “Muggsy” O’Leary; Evelyn Lincoln; democratic politician and Chairman of the Board of the Coca-Cola Export Corporation, James A. “Jim” Farley, Sr.; democratic politician, Albert Benjamin "Happy" Chandler, Sr.; Kennedy family friend and former Boston Police Commissioner, Joseph F. Timilty; Governor of California, Edmund G. “Pat” Brown; Secretary of State, Dean Rusk; and various campaign and office staff members. Orofino also included photographs of himself and his family. Also pictured are presidential campaign items designed by Orofino, including a tie clip modeled after PT-109. Events pictured include the 1960 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles, California; the Inaugural Parade in Washington, D.C.; and the Inaugural Ball at the National Guard Armory in Washington, D.C. This scrapbook contains 115 photographic prints, 45 photocopied letters, five other printed items, and one oil painting reproduction.
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Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-091-001
This photograph album documents the opening of the John F. Kennedy Library traveling exhibit in Athens, Greece, in February 1965. The exhibit, which toured locations throughout Europe, was a showcase of photographs, artifacts, and documents related to President John F. Kennedy and his time in office; a similar exhibit also toured cities throughout the United States. Those pictured include President Kennedy’s mother, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy; Prime Minister of Greece, Georgios Papandreou; U.S. Ambassador to Greece, Henry R. Labouisse; and various unidentified Greek and U.S. officials. Also pictured is Chrysanthemis "Memi" Papacotsis, a young girl from Greece who had undergone heart surgery at Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington, D.C., in 1962; First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy had helped to arrange the operation and Memi’s flight to the U.S. aboard an Air Force airplane. Pictured with Memi, among others, is her father, Spiridon Papacotsis. This photograph album contains 45 photographic prints.
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Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-090-001
This photograph album documents a memorial mass for President John F. Kennedy at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 19, 1964. Those pictured include Jacqueline Kennedy; Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy; Eunice Kennedy Shriver and R. Sargent Shriver; Edward M. Kennedy and Joan Bennett Kennedy; Archbishop of Boston, Richard Cardinal Cushing, who presided over the mass; and members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, who performed Mozart’s Requiem in D. Minor under the direction of conductor Erich Leinsdorf. This photograph album contains 11 photographic prints and the printed text of Cardinal Cushing’s memorial message.