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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
Margaret Ronayne Hahn Personal Papers
MRHPP-001-009
Textual folder
Joseph P. Kennedy Personal Papers
JPKPP-032-018
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-00809N
Robert F. Kennedy (first from left) and Jean Kennedy (second from right) pose in front of a garage with family friends, Tommy and Rita, in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts; two cars are visible inside the garage. [Notes: Original caption from vintage print in album KFC-049-002 reads, "Hyannis Port 1933, Bob, Tommy, Jean, Rita."]
Textual folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-073-001
This photograph album, compiled by Kathleen "Kick" Kennedy, documents her life, travels, and social activities from 1939 to 1942. Photographs document time spent at the Kennedy family’s residences in Palm Beach in Florida, Hyannis Port in Massachusetts, and Bronxville in New York; aboard the S.S. Washington en route to New York City, New York, from Europe; at the 1939 New York World’s Fair; in Sainte-Marguerite-du-lac-Masson in Quebec, Canada; at the Maryland Hunt Cup near Reisterstown, Maryland; at the Berkshire Music Festival (now called the Tanglewood Music Festival) in Lenox, Massachusetts; at Bailey’s Beach in Newport, Rhode Island; as a bridesmaid in the wedding of Kennedy family friend, Anne McDonnell, to Henry Ford II, in Southampton, New York; at the Edgartown Regatta on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts; on a camping trip in Wise River, Montana; on a trip to England; at the Beachcomber Lounge in Boston, Massachusetts; at Club Waikiki in New York City; at the Scranton family estate in Scranton, Pennsylvania; on Lake Minnetonka in Minnesota; at the Coleman and Schweppe family estates in Lake Forest, Illinois; and at parties at both Kathleen’s apartment and the apartment of Kennedy family friend Inga Arvad in Washington, D.C. Other locations pictured include Narragansett, Rhode Island; Greenwich, Connecticut; Lexington and Chatham, Massachusetts; Seminole, Florida; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Charleston, South Carolina. Family members pictured in photographs include Kathleen’s parents, Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy; her siblings, Joseph P. “Joe” Kennedy, Jr., John F. “Jack” Kennedy, Eunice Kennedy, Patricia “Pat” Kennedy, Robert F. “Bob/Bobbie” [sic] Kennedy; Jean Kennedy, and Edward M. “Ted/Teddy” Kennedy; her grandparents, John F. “Honey Fitz” Fitzgerald and Mary Josephine Hannon Fitzgerald; and cousin, Joseph Francis “Joey” Gargan, Jr. Over one hundred friends and acquaintances also appear in photographs, many of whom are identified in original captions. Those who appear more than once within the album include: Edward E. Moore and Mary Moore; Tom Killefer; Torbert "Torb" Macdonald; Richard J. “Dick” Cotter, Jr.; Nancy Van Vleck; Beverley A. “Bev” Bogert; C. Z. “Cizzie” Cochrane; John “Zeke” Coleman, Jr.; Nancy Tenney; Charlotte McDonnell; Francis Huger “Mac” McAdoo, Jr.; Cynthia “Cynth” McAdoo; Kirk LeMoyne “Lem/Leem” Billings; Thomas Henry “Harry” Dixon; John “Johnny” Pyne; Appie Whitney; Eben Pyne; Alison “Allie/Ally” Pyne; Cammann “Cam” Newberry; Constance “Connie” Shepard; James Ayer “Jim” Rousmaniere; Helen MacDonald; Marie Murray; Cyrus Robinson “Cy” Taylor; Nelson Macy, Jr.; William Fuller “Bill” Borland; George Morris Cheston; William Warren “Bill” Scranton; Abbott Widdicombe; Gaspard d’Andelot “Don” Belin; Harriet Bundy “Hattie” Belin; Stanley Rogers “Stan” Resor; Anne Reed; Charles Alfred “Chuckie/Chucky” Pillsbury; Jane "Pil" Pillsbury; Muriel Macy; Demarest "Demi" Lloyd, Jr.; George Houk Mead, Jr.; Richard R. “Dick” Flood; Elizabeth Wayne “Betty” Coxe; Charles “Chuck” Spalding; Inga Arvad; and Mary Dickey. Also pictured are industrialist Henry Ford, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Clementine Ogilvy Spencer Churchill. Original handwritten captions are written in black ink on many of the leaves. This photograph album contains 636 photographic prints and two photo fragments.
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00078N
The Kennedy family dines with guests at their home in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. Clockwise around table (set with lighted candles and a flower arrangement), beginning at left: Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.; unidentified household employee (serving food); Kennedy family friend, Mrs. Daly; Kathleen Kennedy; unidentified man; Patricia Kennedy; unidentified man; Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy; unidentified man (mostly hidden on bottom edge of frame); Kennedy family friend and former Boston Police Commissioner, Joseph F. Timilty; Robert F. Kennedy; Jean Kennedy (partially hidden on edge of frame); and Eunice Kennedy (face obscured). [Notes: See also vintage print in album KFC-073-001.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00583N
Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., swims with his family in the pool at the Kennedy family home in Palm Beach, Florida. Left to right: Robert F. Kennedy, Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., Edward M. Kennedy (seated on his father's shoulder), Jean Kennedy (foreground), Patricia Kennedy, family friend Mary O'Keefe, Rosemary Kennedy, and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy. [Notes: Original caption from vintage print in album KFC-049-002 reads, "Bob, Mr. K., Ted, Jean, Pat, Mary O'K, Rose, Mrs. K."]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00574N
Robert F. Kennedy (right, wearing a leather Champion football helmet and padded football pants) and friend, Tommy (left, holding a ball), lie in the grass outside the Kennedy family home in Bronxville, New York. [Notes: Original caption from vintage print in album KFC-049-002 reads, "Bronxville, N.Y. - October 1935, Tommy and Bob."]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00308N
The Kennedy children pose with family friend, Betsey Cushing Roosevelt, at the pool of the Kennedy family home in Palm Beach, Florida; Mrs. Roosevelt (left) and Eunice Kennedy sit at the edge of the pool. Left to right (in water): Jean Kennedy; Patricia Kennedy; Robert F. Kennedy. [Notes: Original caption from vintage print in album KFC-049-002 reads, "Jean, Pat, Betsy, Bob, Eunice, Palm Beach, 1934."]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01723N
The Kennedy family dines with friends outdoors on the grounds of the Kennedy family home in Palm Beach, Florida, during the Christmas holiday. Those facing away from camera include (clockwise from far right): Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., Tom Killefer, Patricia Kennedy, Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. (in profile), Robert F. Kennedy (partially visible). Others pictured include Eunice Kennedy (at head of table in background), Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (fourth from right), Edward M. Kennedy (third from right); two unidentified female staff members are also present. [Notes: Original caption from vintage print in album KFC-073-001 reads, "Palm Beach Xmas 1941, Xmas lunch."]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-02727N
Robert F. Kennedy squats with his arms around his brother, Edward M. Kennedy (seated in foreground, holding a football), in Bronxville, New York. Kennedy family friends, Edward E. Moore and Mary Moore stand on either side of the Kennedy children. [Notes: Negative is cropped at upper left.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00069N
Robert F. Kennedy and family friend, Eileen Morell, sit on a plush wheeled elephant in the yard of the Kennedy family home in Bronxville, New York.
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01956N
Kennedy family friend, Sir James Calder (center), poses with the Kennedy children on a path in Regent's Park in London, England. Left to right: Robert F. Kennedy, Sir Calder, Edward M. Kennedy (front, center), Jean Kennedy.
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00515N
Edward M. Kennedy (seated in center) poses with Kennedy family friend, Edward E. Moore (standing at right, with hands on his knees), under the awning of a cabana on the beach at The Breakers Hotel, Palm Beach, Florida. Also pictured, in back (L-R): Jean Kennedy (mostly hidden at edge of frame); Mary Moore; nanny to the Kennedy children, Katherine Conboy (seated); Robert F. Kennedy (seated, putting on his socks). [Notes: Original caption from vintage print in album KFC-049-002 reads, "Breakers Beach, March 1934, Mrs. Moore, Bob, Ted, [Mr.] Moore." See also vintage print in album KFC-054-001.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00336N
Kathleen Kennedy (front) and family friend, Eileen Morell, sit on a plush wheeled elephant in the yard of the Kennedy family home in Bronxville, New York; Robert F. Kennedy stands at left.
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00576N
John F. Kennedy (right, with bandages on knees) poses arm-in-arm with his brother, Robert F. Kennedy, and Kirk LeMoyne "Lem" Billings; his sister, Patricia Kennedy (seated in foreground), and family friend, Mary O'Keefe, recline poolside at the Kennedy family home in Palm Beach, Florida. [Notes: Original caption from vintage print in album KFC-049-002 reads, "Mary O'K, Pat, Lem, Bob, Jack."]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00062N
Kathleen Kennedy (in back) and Robert F. Kennedy sit on a plush wheeled elephant in the yard of the Kennedy family home in Bronxville, New York; family friend, Eileen Morell, kneels at left. [Notes: Original caption from vintage print in album KFC-049-002 reads, "Kick, Bob, April 1933." Image is also represented by vintage print KFC3281P with an inscription that reads, "Eileen Morell, Bobby Kennedy, May 8, 1933, love to Kick."]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01722N
Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. (right), lifts his brother, Robert F. Kennedy (facing away from camera), on his back while standing on the diving board of the pool at the Kennedy family home in Palm Beach, Florida, during the Christmas holiday; Kennedy family friend, Tom Killefer (left), and Edward M. Kennedy stand on the diving board behind them. [Notes: See also vintage print in album KFC-073-001.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01721N
Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., stands at the front of the diving board of the pool at the Kennedy family home, with his brothers and a family friend in Palm Beach, Florida, during the Christmas holiday. Left to right: Kennedy family friend, Tom Killefer, Edward M. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. [Notes: Original caption from vintage print in album KFC-073-001 reads, "XMAS '41, Tom, Ted, Bob, Joe."]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01688N
Robert F. Kennedy (wearing sun tape on his nose) reclines on cushions on the porch of the Kennedy family in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts; Kennedy family friend, Torbert Hart "Torb" Macdonald sits in a wicker patio chair at left. [Notes: Original caption from vintage print in album KFC-073-001 reads, "August-September 1941, Torb, Bobby." Obstruction in front of lens, spots, and fogging are original to the negative.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01687N
John F. Kennedy (left, seated in driver's seat) and Robert F. Kennedy (seated at back) pose in a docked boat at the Hyannis Port Yacht Club with Kennedy family friends, Torbert Hart "Torb" Macdonald (standing on dock in foreground) and John "Zeke" Coleman, Jr. (right). [Notes: Original caption from vintage print in album KFC-073-001 reads, "August-September 1941, Jack, Bob, Torb, Zeke." Blemish in center portion of image is original to the negative.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01671N
Kennedy family friend, Kirk LeMoyne "Lem" Billings (top right), plays with a fishing net aboard a boat off the coast of Hyannis Port, Massachusetts; Robert F. Kennedy (left, with head in fishing net) stands off the port side of the boat. Family friend, Nelson Macy, Jr. (bottom right), ties his shoe beside an unidentified man (partially visible).
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01189N
The Kennedy children pose with Kennedy family friend, Mary Moore, their governess, Elizabeth Dunn, and nurse, Luella Hennessey, on steps outdoors in Rome, Italy, during a Kennedy family trip. Left to right: Patricia Kennedy, Mrs. Moore, unidentified person (partially visible), Eunice Kennedy, Miss Dunn, Edward M. Kennedy (partially visible), Robert F. Kennedy, Miss Hennessey.