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Photograph folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-001-018
Contains 26 photographic prints: (KFC1430N, KFC1431N, KFC1432N, KFC1433N, KFC1434N, KFC1436N, KFC1437N, KFC1438N, KFC1439N, KFC1440N, KFC1441N, KFC1442N, KFC1443N, KFC1444N, KFC1446N, KFC1447N, KFC1449N, KFC1450N, KFC1452N, KFC1453N, KFC1519N, KFC1527N, KFC1555N, KFC1556N, KFC1557N, KFC1558N)
Photograph folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-006-021
Contains 35 photographic prints: (KFC718N, KFC707N, KFC706N, KFC703N, KFC700N, KFC699N, KFC698N, KFC695N, KFC694N, KFC693N, KFC692N, KFC713N, KFC709N, KFC691N, KFC690N, KFC689N, KFC650N, KFC651N, KFC653N, KFC652N, KFC702N, KFC717N, KFC715N, KFC716N, KFC712N, KFC654N, KFC708N, KFC714N, KFC711N, KFC688N, KFC687N, KFC686N, KFC685N, KFC684N, KFC683N, KFC680N)
Photograph folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-006-020
Contains 31 photographic prints: (KFC674N, KFC675N, KFC672N, KFC719N, KFC665N, KFC682N, KFC681N, KFC680N, KFC720N, KFC679N, KFC678N, KFC677N, KFC676N, KFC669N, KFC671N, KFC673N, KFC662N, KFC663N, KFC666N, KFC667N, KFC721N, KFC664N, KFC668N, KFC670N, KFC3392P, KFC3393P)
Textual folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-042-001
This photograph album, compiled by Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, documents her travels as a young woman, specifically a 1911 Boston Chamber of Commerce trip to Europe, as well as later social activities and family vacations during the first several years of her marriage to Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. Photographs of the Boston Chamber of Commerce trip, on which Rose and her sister, Agnes, accompanied their father, then-Mayor of Boston, John F. "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald, capture the trans-Atlantic voyage aboard the R.M.S. Franconia, as well as numerous travel destinations, including Ireland, England, Belgium, France, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Cities that are pictured include London, England; Paris, France; Hamburg, Dresden, Nuremberg, and Berlin, Germany; and Vienna, Austria. Other locations and landmarks pictured include the Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, the Loreley Rock in Germany, the Rhine River, and the Alps. Later photographs, dated between 1916 and 1923, document Fitzgerald and Kennedy family vacations in Palm Beach, Florida, and Poland Spring, Maine, as well as other events and activities. Of note are photographs of Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., as a baby at the Kennedy family home on Beals Street in Brookline, Massachusetts; of Rose's brother, Thomas A. Fitzgerald, posing in military dress; and of a Cecilian Guild picnic in June 1921. Others who appear in the album include Rose's mother, Mary Josephine Hannon Fitzgerald; her brothers, John F. Fitzgerald, Jr., and Frederick H. Fitzgerald; and family friends and associates, including Sir Thomas Lipton; John Hays Hammond, Sr.; Francis Abott Goodhue, Jr.; Lillian M. "Lilla" Morrison; and Hugh Nawn. Original handwritten captions are written in white ink on the leaves beneath many photographs, or in black ink and pencil on the rectos of some photographs. Some photographs, including five full panoramic views, were printed on postcard stock. This photograph album contains 171 photographic prints.
Textual folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-071-001
This scrapbook, compiled by Joseph P. “Joe” Kennedy, Jr., documents his education, travels, and family life from 1938 to 1941. The gold stamped title on the cover reads, "Scrap Book." It contains photographs of and printed ephemera related to trips to Europe in 1938 and 1939; his election as a Massachusetts delegate to the 1940 Democratic National Convention; his enrollment at Harvard Law School in 1940; and time spent with family and friends at the Kennedy family residence in Palm Beach, Florida, and on trips to St. Moritz, Switzerland, and the French Riviera, including at the Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes, France. Other destinations pictured in photographic prints and postcards include Mexico, Spain, Poland, Ireland, Bulgaria, Hungary, Italy, and California. Of note are photographs of the Argelès-sur-Mer concentration camp for Republican refugees in Argelès-sur-Mer, France, which Joe, Jr., visited before touring Spain in the final months of the Spanish Civil War, as well as a photograph of Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy christening the Esso Richmond, a new tanker ship, alongside her parents, John F. “Honey Fitz” Fitzgerald and Mary Josephine Hannon Fitzgerald, and her daughter, Eunice Kennedy. Printed ephemera pasted into the scrapbook include invitations to various parties, receptions, luncheons, dinners, weddings, meetings, and banquets, including an event at Buckingham Palace; fliers for discussions, rallies, and debates featuring Joe, Jr., that were held by organizations including College Men for Defense First, Brotherhood of Temple Ohabei Shalom, and the Young Democrats of Massachusetts; Spanish paper currency; and telegrams regarding political events and rallies sent by representatives of both State and National Democratic Committees. Other Kennedy family members and friends pictured in photographs and clippings include Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.; John F. Kennedy; Rosemary Kennedy; Kathleen Kennedy; Patricia Kennedy; Robert F. Kennedy; Jean Kennedy; Edward M. Kennedy; Torbert Macdonald; Hugh Fraser; Tom Killefer; Tom Egerton; and Diana Maria Gerli. Loose materials include a photographic postcard from Sofia, Bulgaria and Shawmut Bank promotional material, possibly a bookmark. The scrapbook contains 133 photographic prints (including a contact print of a strip of three 35mm black and white negatives, and one photo fragment); 32 photographic postcards; and 62 pieces of ephemera, including invitations, correspondence, telegrams, tickets, newspaper clippings, calling cards, advertisements, programs, and fliers.
Textual folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-064-001
This scrapbook, compiled by Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, contains newspaper and magazine clippings from 1938 and 1939 that document a wide range of activities of the Kennedy family during Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.’s tenure as United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom. Of note are clippings related to the family’s trans-Atlantic voyage aboard the S.S. Washington and arrival in London, England; their residence at 14 Prince’s Gate in London; Kathleen Kennedy's purported relationship with J. Peter Grace, son of W.R. Grace and Company president, Joseph Peter Grace, Sr.; Ambassador Kennedy’s first speech in his diplomatic role; Rose and Viscountess Nancy Astor’s attendance at a luncheon at the American Women's Club; Joseph P. "Joe" Kennedy, Jr.’s participation on the Harvard University rugby team; Kathleen and Rosemary Kennedy’s presentation at the Court of St. James’s; dances and parties attended and hosted by Ambassador Kennedy and Rose, including one attended by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth; Edward M. “Teddy” Kennedy’s assistance at the ribbon cutting of London’s Children’s Zoo; Ambassador Kennedy’s arrival in London with Joe, Jr., and John F. “Jack” Kennedy, following a trip back to the United States; Ambassador Kennedy’s receipt of an honorary degree from the National University of Ireland; the family’s vacations in France and Ireland; winter activities including skating and skiing in St. Moritz, Switzerland; Jack's impressions of Europe after a month abroad in England, Germany, and France; Kathleen's relationship with William “Billy” Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington; the family’s audience with Pope Pius XII at his coronation in Vatican City; Kathleen and Joe, Jr.’s visit to Madrid, Spain; Eunice Kennedy’s presentation at the Court of St. James’s; and Billy Hartington’s coming of age party. This scrapbook contains 417 newspaper and magazine clippings.
Textual folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-061-001
This scrapbook, compiled by Joseph P. “Joe” Kennedy, Jr., documents his education, travels, and other aspects of his life from 1936 to 1940. The scrapbook contains clippings, photographs, postcards, and printed ephemera related to his time at Harvard University; his father, Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.’s tenure as United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom; trips to various European countries; and social events and activities. Newspaper and periodical clippings cover a wide range of topics, including Joe, Jr.’s athletic career and involvement in student government at Harvard; the Kennedy family’s arrival in London, England, following Joe, Sr.'s appointment as ambassador; the prospect of British involvement in the global conflict that became World War II; Joe, Sr.'s opinions on and actions related to the war; and other political and society news and events. Others featured in clippings and pictured in photographs include Joe, Jr.’s mother, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy; his siblings, John F. “Jack” Kennedy, Rosemary Kennedy, Kathleen “Kick” Kennedy, Eunice Kennedy, Patricia Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Jean Kennedy, and Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy; his grandparents, John F. "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald and Mary Josephine Hannon Fitzgerald; his cousin, Joseph Francis Gargan, Jr.; and family friend, Hugh Fraser. Printed ephemera pasted into the scrapbook include invitations to various parties, receptions, luncheons, dinners, weddings, meetings, and banquets, including a ball at Buckingham Palace; event programs; menus; tickets; and calling cards. Of note are a set of fingerprints that Joe, Jr., had taken during a visit to the Boston Police Headquarters; an envelope containing five bird feathers; photographs of Joe, Jr., dressed in drag for a Harvard theater production; clippings related to his purported relationship with figure skater Megan Taylor; a letter from British Member of Parliament, Anthony Eden; photographic prints and postcards that capture a Kennedy family trip to St. Moritz, Switzerland; a photograph of Joe, Jr., aboard the R.M.S. Mauretania; clippings related to Joe, Jr.’s voyage from London to New York City, New York; Spanish paper currency; an unsent postcard addressed to Katherine “Kikoo” Conboy, nanny to the Kennedy children, signed by Joe, Jr.; a photographic postcard signed by Alois Lang, the actor who portrayed Jesus in the 1934 performance of the Oberammergau Passion Play in Bavaria, Germany; contact prints of strips of 35mm black and white negatives that capture scenes from Joe, Jr.’s 1939 trip to Spain with Kathleen following the end of the Spanish Civil War, including images of Spanish Loyalist tanks and damage from the siege of the Alcázar of Toledo; a photographic postcard featuring an image of Adolf Hitler shaking hands with Hermann Göring; signed portrait photos of several unidentified women; and prints of four watercolor illustrations depicting scenes from the Spanish Civil War, credited to “Artillery Lieutenant Luis Serrano.” Other destinations pictured in photographic prints and postcards include Warsaw, Poland; Cannes, France; Capri, Rome, Venice, Naples, and Amalfi, Italy; Copenhagen, Denmark; Czechoslovakia; Killarney and other locations in Ireland; and Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), Russia. Original handwritten captions and inscriptions are written in black ink on some of the leaves. This photograph album contains 164 photographic prints and postcards, 134 newspaper and periodical clippings, 29 pieces of printed ephemera, six banknotes and two banknote fragments, four pieces of correspondence, and four prints of watercolor drawings.
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.
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00700N
Members of an Irish pipe band (with bagpipes and drums) pose outdoors during the Dublin Horse Show held at the Royal Dublin Society Arena in Dublin, Ireland. [Notes: See also vintage print in album KFC-058-001.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00692N
Members of an Irish pipe band (with bagpipes and drums) stand outdoors in the grass during the Dublin Horse Show held at the Royal Dublin Society Arena in Dublin, Ireland. [Notes: Original caption from vintage print in album KFC-058-001 reads, "Ireland 1937."]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00689N
Spectators stand and salute President of Ireland, Éamon de Valera (not discernible in image), during the Dublin Horse Show at the Royal Dublin Society Arena in Dublin, Ireland; several unidentified people are seen standing on the field at right. [Notes: Original caption from vintage print in album KFC-058-001 reads, "Dublin Horse Show, Aug 1937, Saluting President De Valera."]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00688N
Spectators stand and salute President of Ireland, Éamon de Valera (not discernible in image), during the Dublin Horse Show at the Royal Dublin Society Arena in Dublin, Ireland; a pipe band is seen performing with bagpipes and drums on the field at right. [Notes: Original caption from vintage print in album KFC-058-001 reads, "Dublin Horse Show, Aug 1937, Saluting President De Valera." Reticulation is original to the negative.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00687N
Spectators stand and salute President of Ireland, Éamon de Valera (not discernible in image), during the Dublin Horse Show at the Royal Dublin Society Arena in Dublin, Ireland. [Notes: Original caption from vintage print in album KFC-058-001 reads, "Dublin Horse Show, Aug 1937, Saluting President De Valera." Spotting is original to the negative.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00674N
Kathleen Kennedy (left) rides on horseback with an unidentified woman (center) and an unidentified boy through the Gap of Dunloe in Killarney National Park, Killarney, Ireland, during a Kennedy family trip. [Notes: Original caption from vintage print in album KFC-058-001 reads, "Kick, [illegible]."]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00668N
Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., rides on horseback through the Gap of Dunloe in Killarney National Park, Killarney, Ireland, during a Kennedy family trip; an unidentified man rides a horse in background. [Notes: Original caption from vintage print in album KFC-058-001 reads, "Trip through Killarney - 1937, Joe, Gap of Dunloe."]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01447N
John F. "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald (wearing a bathing costume, posing with his hands on hips) stands on a rocky shore, while traveling along the coast of Ireland during Rose Fitzgerald and Agnes Fitzgerald's school year abroad; stairs built into the rocks are visible in the background. [Notes: See also ""My Ocean Trip," 18 July 1908-20 August 1909"; "Diary-style notes of touring in Europe with her father, 27 July-29 August 1908" (ROFKPP-001-001; ROFKPP-001-002), from the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Personal Papers. Scratches and spotting throughout image are original to the negative.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00683N
Spectators view members of the Irish Army Cavalry Corps ride on horseback in the Royal Dublin Society Arena during the Dublin Horse Show in Dublin, Ireland. [Notes: Original caption from vintage print in album KFC-058-001 reads, "Dublin Horse Show, Aug 1937."]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00671N
Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., and Kathleen Kennedy (not discernible in image) ride on horseback with several unidentified people (all seen from behind) through the Gap of Dunloe in Killarney National Park, Killarney, Ireland, during a Kennedy family trip. [Notes: Original caption from vintage print in album KFC-058-001 reads, "Gap of Dunloe."]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00703N
Spectators watch a rider on horseback (center) jump over a hurdle during the Dublin Horse Show at the Royal Dublin Society Arena in Dublin, Ireland.
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00699N
Spectators watch a horse and rider on the field during the Dublin Horse Show at the Royal Dublin Society Arena in Dublin, Ireland. [Notes: Original caption from vintage print in album KFC-058-001 reads, "Horse Show."]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00698N
Spectators watch a horse and rider gallop across the field during the Dublin Horse Show at the Royal Dublin Society Arena in Dublin, Ireland; several unidentified people (seated) are visible on the field at right. [Notes: Original caption from vintage print in album KFC-058-001 reads, "Horse Show."]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00686N
Spectators watch a rider on horseback (right) jump over a hurdle during the Dublin Horse Show at the Royal Dublin Society Arena in Dublin, Ireland; several unidentified people are visible (seated and standing) on the grass in the arena. [Notes: Original caption from vintage print in album KFC-058-001 reads, "Dublin Horse Show, Aug 1937."]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00685N
Spectators view the Irish Army Band marching on the field in the Royal Dublin Society Arena during the Dublin Horse Show in Dublin, Ireland. [Notes: Original caption from vintage print in album KFC-058-001 reads, "Dublin Horse Show, Aug 1937." Scratches in upper right portion of image are original to the negative.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00684N
View of the Royal Dublin Society Arena during the Dublin Horse Show in Dublin, Ireland. [Notes: Original caption from vintage print in album KFC-058-001 reads, "Dublin Horse Show, Aug 1937."]