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Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1961-05-27-C
AR07
Textual folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-070-001
This scrapbook, compiled by Joseph P. “Joe” Kennedy, Jr., documents his travels, family life, political work, and naval career between 1938 and 1941. The gold stamped title on the cover reads, “Scrap Book.” It contains newspaper clippings, photographic prints and postcards, handwritten and typed letters, and printed ephemera related to his travels in the United States and Europe, including a 1939 visit to Spain at the end of the Spanish Civil War; his involvement with the Democratic Party, including as a Massachusetts delegate to the 1940 Democratic National Convention; his father, Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., and his diplomatic work as U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom; his family's travels between the U.S. and England; his naval training at the Squantum Naval Air Station in Quincy, Massachusetts; and other news and current events of the time. Other Kennedy family members mentioned in clippings include Joe, Jr.’s mother, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy; his siblings, John F. Kennedy, Kathleen Kennedy, Eunice Kennedy, and Robert F. Kennedy; grandparents, John F. “Honey Fitz” Fitzgerald and Mary Josephine Hannon Fitzgerald; aunt, Margaret L. Burke; uncle, Thomas A. Fitzgerald; cousins, Marion Eunice Fitzgerald and John F. “Jack” Fitzgerald; and his sister Kathleen's future husband, William "Billy" Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington. Photographs feature Joe, Jr., attending unidentified events, with fellow trainees at the Squantum Naval Air Station, and holding a fish. An additional photograph shows an aerial view of the Kennedy family home in Palm Beach, Florida. Photographic postcards feature images of canals in Xochimilco, Mexico, and of Joe, Jr., in St. Moritz, Switzerland. Senders of typed and handwritten correspondence include British politician Arthur Greenwood; politician and Democratic National Convention Chairman, James A. Farley; journalist Arthur Krock; Executive Director of the Massachusetts Committee on Public Safety, J. W. Farley; and Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby. Printed ephemera include a dance card with a pencil attached by string; a flier advertising a debate on Lend-Lease policy; a printed menu and seating chart for a dinner attended by Chairman of the London Stock Exchange, R. B. Pearson; a ticket book for the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, in July 1940; and a printed booklet published by the Squantum Naval Air Station titled, "Flight 62 / Knocks It Off," and dated August 7, 1941. Another item of note is a paper bag printed with Spanish text; bags of this type originally contained loaves of bread and were part of a campaign by General Francisco Franco in which airplanes dropped bread over Madrid, Spain, during the Spanish Civil War. Original notations are written in blue and black ink and pencil on the rectos and/or versos of some of the clippings. This scrapbook contains 75 newspaper and magazine clippings, nine photographic prints and postcards, six pieces of correspondence, and seven other pieces of printed ephemera.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Sanford L. Fox
JFKWHSFSLF-008-012
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6620-N
Guests sit at tables during President John F. Kennedy’s birthday party celebration at the National Guard Armory. The fund-raising dinner was given by the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Senatorial and Congressional Campaign Committees.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6620-M
The cake for President John F. Kennedy’s birthday party celebration at the National Guard Armory. The fund-raising dinner was given by the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Senatorial and Congressional Campaign Committees.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6620-L
Guests sit at tables during President John F. Kennedy’s birthday party celebration at the National Guard Armory; approximately 6,000 people in attendance. The fund-raising dinner was given by the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Senatorial and Congressional Campaign Committees.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6620-K
President John F. Kennedy’s birthday party celebration at the National Guard Armory. President Kennedy’s birthday cake sits in the foreground. Seated at the head table, L-R: Speaker of the House of Representatives, Sam Rayburn (Texas); President Kennedy; Chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), John M. Bailey; two unidentified; Attorney General, Robert F. Kennedy; unidentified; Postmaster General, J. Edward Day; unidentified; Secretary of Labor, Arthur Goldberg. The fund-raising dinner was given by the DNC and the Democratic Senatorial and Congressional Campaign Committees.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6620-J
President John F. Kennedy’s birthday party celebration at the National Guard Armory. L-R: Secretary of Labor, Arthur Goldberg; Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (Minnesota); comedian, Jerry Lewis; Patti Palmer. The fund-raising dinner was given by the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Senatorial and Congressional Campaign Committees.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6620-H
President John F. Kennedy’s birthday party celebration at the National Guard Armory. L-R: President Kennedy; Lady Bird Johnson; former President Harry S. Truman; unidentified; Secretary of the Interior, Stewart Udall. The fund-raising dinner was given by the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Senatorial and Congressional Campaign Committees.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6620-D
President John F. Kennedy’s birthday party celebration at the National Guard Armory. L-R: President Kennedy; Secretary of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), Dorothy Vredenburgh Bush (face obscured); White House Secret Service agent, Gerald A. “Jerry” Behn; former President Harry S. Truman; dinner co-chairperson, Jane Wheeler; Treasurer of the DNC, Matthew H. McCloskey. The fund-raising dinner was given by the DNC and the Democratic Senatorial and Congressional Campaign Committees.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6620-C
President John F. Kennedy’s birthday party celebration at the National Guard Armory. L-R: President Kennedy; former President Harry S. Truman; unidentified woman; Speaker of the House of Representatives, Sam Rayburn (Texas); Secretary of the Interior, Stewart Udall; two unidentified women; Secretary of Agriculture, Orville Freeman. The fund-raising dinner was given by the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Senatorial and Congressional Campaign Committees.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6620-B
President John F. Kennedy’s birthday party celebration at the National Guard Armory. L-R: Speaker of the House of Representatives, Sam Rayburn (Texas); President Kennedy; Chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), John M. Bailey. The fund-raising dinner was given by the DNC and the Democratic Senatorial and Congressional Campaign Committees.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6620-A
President John F. Kennedy’s birthday party celebration at the National Guard Armory. President Kennedy hands plate to unidentified man; Chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), John M. Bailey, sits at right. The fund-raising dinner was given by the DNC and the Democratic Senatorial and Congressional Campaign Committees.