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Scrapbooks and albums: Joseph P. Kennedy family, others, 1925-1937

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Digital Identifier:
KFC-048-001
Title:
Scrapbooks and albums: Joseph P. Kennedy family, others, 1925-1937
Date(s) of Materials:
1925-1937
Folder Description:
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.
Extent:
1 photograph album (58 pages; 81 photographs; 11.417 x 14.173 x 1.574 inches)
Collection:
Kennedy Family Collection
Finding Aid | Digitized Content
Series Number:
2.
Preferred Citation:
Copyright John F. Kennedy Library Foundation. Kennedy Family Collection. Scrapbooks and albums: Joseph P. Kennedy family, others, 1925-1937. KFC-048-001. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston
Person(s):
Astor, Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, Viscountess, 1879-1964
Bastien, Alice Cahill
Billings, Lem (Kirk LeMoyne), 1916-1981
Conboy, Katherine, 1882?-
Fitzgerald family
Fitzgerald, John F. (John Francis), 1863-1950
Fitzgerald, Mary Josephine Hannon, 1865-1964
Gargan, Agnes Fitzgerald, 1892-1936
Gargan, Joseph Francis, Sr., 1890-1946
Gravalos, Mary Evans, 1921-2006
Kennedy family
Kennedy, Edward M. (Edward Moore), 1932-2009
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
Kennedy, Joseph P. (Joseph Patrick), 1888-1969
Kennedy, Joseph P. (Joseph Patrick), 1915-1944
Kennedy, Kathleen, 1920-1948
Kennedy, Robert F. (Robert Francis), 1925-1968
Kennedy, Rose Fitzgerald, 1890-1995
Kennedy, Rosemary, 1918-2005
Lawford, Patricia Kennedy, 1924-2006
Marion, Frances, 1888-1973
Shriver, Eunice (Eunice Kennedy), 1921-2009
Smith, Jean Kennedy, 1928-2020
Thomson, Frederick Clifton, 1890-1928
Physical Description:
1 photograph album (58 pages; 81 photographs; 11.417 x 14.173 x 1.574 inches)
Media Type:
Bound Volume
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