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Textual folder
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.
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01500N
Thomas A. Fitzgerald (left) poses outdoors with his arm around an unidentified boy in Dorchester, Massachusetts. [Notes: Chemical damage in bottom left portion of image is original to the negative.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01493N
Thomas A. Fitzgerald (standing in back), John F. Fitzgerald, Jr. (seated in a chair, with his arm around his brother's shoulder), and Frederick H. Fitzgerald (standing in front) pose outdoors in Dorchester, Massachusetts. [Notes: Negative is double exposed. The second, underlying image is of Rose Fitzgerald kneeling on the ground. Spotting throughout image is original to the negative.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01492N
Rose Fitzgerald (standing in back) poses with her sister, Eunice Fitzgerald (left), and brother, Frederick H. Fitzgerald, outdoors in Dorchester, Massachusetts. [Notes: Spotting throughout image is original to the negative.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01489N
Agnes Fitzgerald (left) and Eunice Fitzgerald pose on a walkway in Dorchester, Massachusetts. [Notes: Image is partially underexposed.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01484N
Five Fitzgerald family children pose outdoors with an unidentified boy in Dorchester, Massachusetts. Left to right: unidentified; Agnes Fitzgerald (in back); John F. Fitzgerald, Jr. (with his hands on his brother's head); Frederick H. Fitzgerald (in front); Thomas A. Fitzgerald; Eunice Fitzgerald. [Notes: Spotting throughout image is original to the negative.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00897N
Rosemary Kennedy, Kathleen Kennedy, and Eunice Kennedy pose with their aunt, Agnes Fitzgerald (center), in the yard outside the house the Kennedy family rented in Cohasset, Massachusetts.
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00787N
Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., and John F. Kennedy lie under an umbrella with their aunt, Agnes Fitzgerald, at Sandy Beach, Cohasset, Massachusetts; John F. Kennedy lies on his aunt's back with his arms around her shoulders.
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00726N
Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., sits in the lap of his aunt, Agnes Fitzgerald, on the front steps of the Kennedy family home on Beals Street in Brookline, Massachusetts. [Notes: See also vintage print in album KFC-042-001.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00725N
Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., sits in the lap of his aunt, Agnes Fitzgerald, in Brookline, Massachusetts. Woman and baby at right are unidentified. [Notes: Streaking at top left of image is original to the negative.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00724N
Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., sits in the lap of his aunt, Agnes Fitzgerald, in Brookline, Massachusetts. Woman and baby at right are unidentified. [Notes: Streaking at top left of image is original to the negative.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00887N
John F. "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald (wearing bathing suit) holds his grandson, Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., at Nantasket Beach, Hull, Massachusetts.
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00875N
Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., stands with the help of his aunt, Eunice Fitzgerald (partially out of frame), on the porch steps of the house the Kennedy family rented on Beach Avenue at Nantasket Beach, Hull, Massachusetts.
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00874N
Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., poses with his aunt, Eunice Fitzgerald, on the porch steps of the house the Kennedy family rented on Beach Avenue at Nantasket Beach, Hull, Massachusetts.
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-02833N
Cousin to the Kennedy children, Joseph Francis "Joey" Gargan, Jr. (seated first from left on the roof of the wheelhouse, wearing sunglasses), and several unidentified people sail aboard the "S.S. Hortense," off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. [Notes: See also similar photographs of the "S.S. Hortense" in album KFC-088-001. Blemishes and scratches are original to the negative.]
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-00235N
John F. "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald and Mary Josephine Hannon Fitzgerald (both in back) pose with their grandchildren on the porch steps of the house the Kennedy family rented in Cohasset, Massachusetts. Eunice Kennedy (left) sits in her grandmother's lap; Kathleen Kennedy and Rosemary Kennedy (wearing a bow in her hair) sit in their grandfather's lap. John F. Kennedy (left) and Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. (eating a lollipop), sit on the step below. [Notes: Partial frame of another photograph exposure is visible at right.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00232N
John F. "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald and Mary Josephine Hannon Fitzgerald (both in back) pose with their grandchildren on the porch steps of the house the Kennedy family rented in Cohasset, Massachusetts. Eunice Kennedy sits in her grandfather's lap; Rosemary Kennedy (wearing a bow in her hair) sits right of her grandfather. John F. Kennedy (left), Kathleen Kennedy, and Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. (holding a lollipop), sit on the step below. [Notes: Partial frame of another photograph exposure is visible at right.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00231N
John F. "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald and Mary Josephine Hannon Fitzgerald (both in back) pose with their grandchildren on the porch steps of the house the Kennedy family rented in Cohasset, Massachusetts. Eunice Kennedy sits in her grandfather's lap; Rosemary Kennedy (wearing a bow in her hair) sits right of her grandfather. John F. Kennedy (left), Kathleen Kennedy, and Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. (holding a lollipop), sit on the step below. [Notes: Negative is double exposed. The second, overlying image is a close-up view of a similar scene.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01936N
John F. Fitzgerald (center), sits with several unidentified people aboard the "Davilis," a yacht belonging to his uncle, Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., near Hyannis Port, Massachusetts.
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-02070N
Eunice Fitzgerald stands outdoors in Dorchester, Massachusetts. [Notes: Missing portion of image is represented in KFC2068N due to adherence of this negative to the other and subsequent tearing; negative is severely damaged.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-02069N
Eunice Fitzgerald kneels on the ground in front of several chickens in Dorchester, Massachusetts. [Notes: Negative is torn and severely damaged.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01794N
Edward M. Kennedy poses outdoors with his cousin, Joseph Francis "Joey" Gargan, Jr. (right), on the porch of the Kennedy family home in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. [Notes: See also vintage print in album KFC-073-001.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00237N
John F. Kennedy sits in the grass with his aunt, Agnes Fitzgerald. Cohassest, Massachusetts. [Notes: Blemishes in upper portion of image are original to the negative.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00211N
John F. "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald and Mary Josephine Hannon Fitzgerald pose with their grandchildren on the porch steps of the house the Kennedy family rented in Cohasset, Massachusetts. John F. Kennedy (left) and Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., stand behind their grandmother and grandfather, respectively; Eunice Kennedy sits in her grandfather's lap. Kathleen Kennedy and Rosemary Kennedy (wearing a bow in her hair) sit in foreground. [Notes: Fogging is original to the negative.]