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Scrapbooks and albums: Kathleen Kennedy, family and friends, 1939-1942

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Digital Identifier:
KFC-073-001
Title:
Scrapbooks and albums: Kathleen Kennedy, family and friends, 1939-1942
Date(s) of Materials:
1939-1942
Folder Description:
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; Beverly 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.
Extent:
1 photograph album (198 pages; 15.984 x 12.598 x 1.969 inches)
Collection:
Kennedy Family Collection
Finding Aid | Digitized Content
Series Number:
4.
Preferred Citation:
Copyright John F. Kennedy Library Foundation. Kennedy Family Collection. Scrapbooks and albums: Kathleen Kennedy, family and friends, 1939-1942. KFC-073-001. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston
Person(s):
Arvad, Inga, 1913-1973
Belin, Gaspard d'Andelot, III, 1918-2003
Belin, Harriet Bundy, 1920-2008
Billings, Lem (Kirk LeMoyne), 1916-1981
Bogert, Beverly Ayer, 1915-1994
Borland, William Fuller, 1918-2009
Burke, Nancy Van Vleck, 1920-2007
Cheston, George Morris, 1917-2003
Churchill, Clementine, 1885-1977
Churchill, Winston, Sir (Winston Leonard Spencer), 1874-1965
Coleman, John, Jr., 1917-2008
Coleman, Nancy Tenney, 1920-2017
Cotter, Richard J., Jr., 1918-1999
Dickey, Mary
Dixon, Thomas Henry, 1918-2011
Ewing, Alison Pyne, 1920-2013
Fitzgerald family
Fitzgerald, John F. (John Francis), 1863-1950
Fitzgerald, Mary Josephine Hannon, 1865-1964
Flood, Richard R., 1914-1969
Ford, Henry, 1863-1947
Ford, Henry, II, 1917-1987
Gargan, Joseph Francis, Jr., 1930-2017
Guest, C. Z., 1920-2003
Harris, Charlotte McDonnell, 1920-1985
Harris, Marie Murray, 1919-1994
Jenkins, Muriel Gerli, 1918-1999
Johnson, Anne McDonnell Ford, 1919-1996
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
Killefer, Tom, 1917-1996
Lawford, Patricia Kennedy, 1924-2006
Lloyd, Demarest, Jr., 1919-1944
Macdonald, Torbert H. (Torbert Hart), 1917-1976
Macy, Nelson, Jr., 1910-1992
McAdoo, Cynthia Stowe Heffron, 1920-2015
McAdoo, Francis Huger, Jr., 1916-2022
Mead, George Houk, Jr., 1917-1942
Moore, Edward E., 1877?-1953
Moore, Mary Honora, 1878?-1964
Newberry, Cammann, 1914-1990
Otis, Constance Shepard, 1919-2013
Pillsbury, Charles Alfred, 1917-1943
Pyne, Eben Wright, 1917-2007
Pyne, John Wright, 1918-1999
Resor, Jane Pillsbury, 1920-1994
Resor, Stanley Rogers, 1917-2012
Rousmaniere, James Ayer, 1918-2004
Scranton, William Warren, 1917-2013
Shriver, Eunice (Eunice Kennedy), 1921-2009
Smith, Jean Kennedy, 1928-2020
Spalding, Charles, 1918-1999
Spalding, Elizabeth Coxe, 1920-2001
Taylor, Cyrus Robinson, 1917-1944
Watson, Helen MacDonald, 1919-1962
Whitney, Appie
Widdicombe, Abbott, 1916-1999
Witherby, Anne Byrd Reed, 1919-2016
Place(s):
Bronxville (N.Y.)
Canada
Cape Cod (Mass.)
Charleston (S.C.)
Chatham (Mass.)
Connecticut
Edgartown (Mass.)
Florida
Greenwich (Conn.)
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.)
Illinois
Lake Forest (Ill.)
Lenox (Mass.)
Lexington (Ky.)
Martha’s Vineyard (Mass.)
Maryland
Massachusetts
Minnesota
Minnetonka, Lake (Minn.)
Narragansett Bay (R.I.)
New York (State)
Newport (R.I.)
Orono (Minn.)
Palm Beach (Fla.)
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia (Pa.)
Québec (Province)
Reisterstown (Md.)
Residence of Kathleen Kennedy (2480 16th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.)
Rhode Island
South Carolina
Seminole (Pinellas County, Fla.)
Seminole (Pinellas County, Fla.)
South Carolina
Southampton (N.Y.)
Washington (D.C.)
Physical Description:
1 photograph album (198 pages; 15.984 x 12.598 x 1.969 inches)
Media Type:
Bound Volume
Related Records:
Palm Beach, family members, others, 1939: December - 1940: January (folder 1 of 2)
Palm Beach, Easter, Mrs. Joseph P. Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, Edward M. Kennedy, others, 1941: April
Palm Beach, Kathleen Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, John "Zeke" Coleman, Nancy Tenney, ca. 1941: April
Palm Beach, Kathleen Kennedy, ca. 1941: May
"Brooklandwood," Maryland, Maryland Hunt Cup, Kathleen Kennedy, Cammann Newberry, Bill Coleman, others, 1941: May
Newport, Rhode Island, Kathleen Kennedy, K. LeMoyne "Lem" Billings, 1941: May
Scranton, Pennsylvania, Bill Scranton's House Party, Kathleen Kennedy, William Bundy, Cyrus Vance, others, 1941: June
Lake Forest, Illinois, Kathleen Kennedy, John "Zeke" Coleman, Jr., others, 1941: July
Lake Minnetonka, Minnesota, "The Pillsburys", Kathleen Kennedy, others, ca. 3-6 July 1941
Hyannis Port, Kennedy family, others, 1941: July-September (Folder 1 of 2)
Hyannis Port, Kennedy family, others, 1941: July-September (Folder 2 of 2)
Washington, D.C., Kathleen Kennedy, Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., Eunice Kennedy, Inga Arvad, others, 1941: November-1942: June
Washington, D.C., Kathleen Kennedy, Eunice Kennedy, Nancy Tenney, others, 1941: November-1942: June
Washington, D.C., Kathleen Kennedy's friends and others, 1941: November-1942: June
Palm Beach, Kennedy family, others, 1941: December-1942: January
Charleston, South Carolina, John F. Kennedy, Kathleen Kennedy, others, 1942
Palm Beach, Kathleen Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, others, 1942
Hyannis Port, Kennedy family, others, 1942, and undated
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