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Photograph folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-005-016
Contains 6 photographic prints: (KFC128N, KFC323N, KFC322N, KFC199N, KFC202N, KFC325N)
Photograph folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-005-012
Contains 28 photographic prints: (KFC1033N, KFC99N, KFC177N, KFC203N, KFC193N, KFC1N, KFC518N, KFC519N, KFC520N, KFC2N, KFC176N, KFC528N, KFC207N, KFC168N, KFC117N, KFC195N, KFC114N, KFC307N, KFC167N, KFC116N, KFC185N, KFC208N, KFC304N, KFC168N, KFC186N, KFC302N, KFC308N, KFC2272P)
Textual folder
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.
Textual folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-055-001
This guest book contains signatures and handwritten notations from visitors to the Kennedy family home in Palm Beach, Florida, from 1934 to 1939, including family, friends, and associates. Of note are entries by Kennedy family friends, Sir James Calder and Lady Mildred Calder; Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy's parents, John F. "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald and Mary Josephine Hannon Fitzgerald; James Roosevelt, son of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Betsey Cushing Roosevelt; Administrator of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, Harry Hopkins, and Barbara Duncan Hopkins; journalist Arthur Krock; Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Boston, Francis Spellman; friend, Edward E. Moore; friend, Kirk LeMoyne "Lem" Billings; radio commentator, Boake Carter, and Beatrice Olive Richter Carter; Apostolic Delegate of the Vatican to the United States, Amleto Giovanni Cicognani; British playwright, Frederick Lonsdale; and Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.'s niece, Mary Connelly. Handwritten entries are written in black and blue ink on the rectos of the first five leaves; the remaining leaves are blank.
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00128N
Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy pose with their children and family friends outside the Kennedy family home in Palm Beach, Florida, on Easter Sunday. Left to right: Rosemary Kennedy; Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy; Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.; Jean Kennedy (in front); friend, Betsey Cushing Roosevelt; Patricia Kennedy; friend, James Roosevelt; Eunice Kennedy. [Notes: Original caption from vintage print in album KFC-049-002 reads, "Rose, Mrs. K, Mr. K, Jean, Betsy, Pat, Jimmy, Eunice, Palm Beach, 1934."]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00302N
Kennedy family friend, James Roosevelt, holds his wife, Betsey Cushing Roosevelt, on his back outside the Kennedy family home in Palm Beach, Florida. [Notes: Original caption from album KFC-049-002 reads, "Palm Beach, March 1934." Negative is torn; punctures along bottom edge are original to the negative.]