Scrapbooks and albums: Hyannis Port, Bronxville, Palm Beach, Joseph P. Kennedy family, others (Volume II: 1933-1936)

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Digital Identifier:

KFC-049-002

Title:

Date(s) of Materials:
1933-1936

Folder Description:

This photograph album, compiled by Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, documents various moments in the lives of the Kennedy family from 1933 to 1936. Photographs capture Rose and her family at their residences in Hyannis Port in Massachusetts, Bronxville in New York, and Palm Beach in Florida; at the beach at The Breakers Hotel and at the Sea Spray Club in Palm Beach; at the Ostrich-Alligator Farm & Zoo in Lantana, Palm Beach County; and at the West Beach Club on Cape Cod. Also of note are photographs of Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter celebrations; birthday parties for Eunice Kennedy and Jean Kennedy; a Native American sun dance ceremony in Palm Beach; gymnastics exercises and boxing matches at the Sea Spray Club, in which Robert F. “Bobby/Bob” Kennedy and Edward M. “Ted” Kennedy participated; Jean dressed for her First Communion and Confirmation in Bronxville; Ted’s picnic on the lawn of the family’s home in Bronxville with a friend identified as “Rita”; a visit to a warship in Provincetown, Massachusetts; Jean dressed in a Scottish tartan and kilt; and other activities including swimming, sailing, sledding, horseback riding, football, and other sports. Other Kennedy family members and friends pictured in photographs include Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.; Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr.; John F. “Jack” Kennedy; Rosemary Kennedy (referred to as “Rose” in original captions); Kathleen “Kick” Kennedy; Patricia “Pat” Kennedy; Rose’s parents, John F. “Honey Fitz” Fitzgerald and Mary Josephine Hannon Fitzgerald; Rose’s sister, Agnes Fitzgerald Gargan, and brother-in-law, Joseph F. Gargan, Sr.; Rose’s niece, Marion Eunice Fitzgerald, and nephew, John F. “Jack” Fitzgerald (the children of her brother, Thomas A. Fitzgerald); nanny to the Kennedy children, Katherine “Kikoo” Conboy; governess to the Kennedy children, Alice Cahill; Edward E. Moore and Mary Moore; James Roosevelt, son of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Betsey Cushing Roosevelt; Jean K. Webber; Eileen Morell; Frances “Sancy” Falvey; Mary O’Keefe; Olive Cawley; Nancy Tenney; and Jack’s Choate School classmate, Thomas Morgan Schriber. Others identified in original captions include, “Francis,” “Tommy,” “Gilbert,” “Miss Hood,” “Jean’s godmother” (“Mrs. Greene”), and “Mary.” All leaves contain original handwritten captions in white ink, although the handwriting does not belong to Rose and the writer has not been determined. This photograph album contains 322 photographic prints, two photographic postcards, and one photograph fragment.

Extent:

1 photograph album (58 pages; 16.000 x 12.500 x 2.125 inches)

Collection:
Kennedy Family Collection
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Series Number:

Series Name:
Bronxville Years, 1927-1938.

Preferred Citation:

Copyright John F. Kennedy Library Foundation. Kennedy Family Collection. Scrapbooks and albums: Hyannis Port, Bronxville, Palm Beach, Joseph P. Kennedy family, others (Volume II: 1933-1936). John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston

Subject(s):
Boats and boating
Holidays
Kennedy family
Kennedy family friends
Pets and other animals
Sports and recreation
Voyages and travels

Person(s):
Bastien, Alice Cahill
Coleman, Nancy Tenney, 1920-2017
Conboy, Katherine, 1882?-
Fitzgerald family
Fitzgerald, John F. (John Francis), 1863-1950
Fitzgerald, John F., II, 1923-1999
Fitzgerald, Mary Josephine Hannon, 1865-1964
Francis (Kennedy family friend)
Gargan, Agnes Fitzgerald, 1892-1936
Gilbert (Kennedy family friend)
Gravalos, Mary Evans, 1921-2006
Greene, Mrs. (Kennedy family friend)
Hood, Miss
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
Mary (Kennedy family friend)
McGlynn, Eileen Morell Whelan, 1919-2007
Moore, Edward E., 1877?-1953
Moore, Mary Honora, 1878?-1964
Mullen, Marion Eunice, 1925-2000
Newman, Mary Frances, 1919-2003
Rita (Kennedy family friend)
Roosevelt, James, 1907-1991
Schriber, Thomas Morgan, 1914-1990
Shriver, Eunice (Eunice Kennedy), 1921-2009
Smith, Jean Kennedy, 1928-2020
Tommy (Kennedy family friend)
Watson, Olive Cawley, 1918-2004
Webber, Jean (Kennedy family friend)
Whitney, Betsey Cushing Roosevelt, 1908-1998

Organization(s):
Breakers (Hotel : Palm Beach, Fla.)
Ostrich-Alligator Farm & Zoo (Lantana, Palm Beach County, Fla.)
Sea Spray Club (Palm Beach, Fla.)
West Beach Club (Hyannis Port, Mass.)

Place(s):
Bronxville (N.Y.)
Cape Cod (Mass.)
Florida
Home of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (1095 N Ocean Boulevard, Palm Beach, Florida)
Home of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (294 Pondfield Road, Bronxville, New York)
Home of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (50 Marchant Avenue, Hyannis Port, Massachusetts)
Hyannis Port (Mass.)
Lantana (Fla.)
Massachusetts
New York (State)
Palm Beach (Fla.)
Provincetown (Mass.)

Physical Description:
1 photograph album (58 pages; 16.000 x 12.500 x 2.125 inches)

Media Type:
Bound Volume

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