April 14, 2022
About This Episode
Both sides of JFK’s family - the Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys - were at the forefront of the amateur photography movement, using the burgeoning field to document their lives over the course of many decades. Today, this collection of photographs gives us an insight into the lives of these dynamic families, and also presents some interesting and urgent challenges to archivists.
In this episode of JFK35, learn from JFK Library Archivist Laura Kintz about Rose Fitzgerald’s interest in photography at the turn of the 20th century, and how archivists have preserved and digitized the Fitzgerald and Kennedy family photographs.
View the transcript for this episode.
What We Talked About
- Read Laura Kintz’s blog post: All Aboard the SS Metapan: The Boston Chamber of Commerce 1913 Trip to Panama.
- Learn more about nitrate negatives and the Kennedy Family Collection.
- See digitized photographs in the Kennedy Family Collection, or view the Collection’s finding aid.
- Go behind the scenes with archives digitization staff during the nitrate digitization initiative.