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Photograph folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-005-013
Contains 30 photographic prints: (KFC119N, KFC1014N, KFC1013N, KFC602N, KFC515N, KFC516N, KFC3N, KFC517N, KFC187N, KFC309N, KFC1015N, KFC346N, KFC1019N, KFC347N, KFC178N, KFC125N, KFC1016N, KFC1017N, KFC1020N, KFC1018N, KFC191N, KFC348N, KFC4N, KFC349N, KFC306N, KFC514N, KFC1012N, KFC123N, KFC201N, KFC298N)
Textual folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-049-002
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.
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01018N
View of an outdoor swimming pool at The Breakers Hotel, Palm Beach, Florida.
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01016N
Rosemary Kennedy (left) and Kathleen Kennedy swim in the pool at The Breakers Hotel, Palm Beach, Florida.
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01014N
The Kennedy family children pose sitting in the sand on the beach at The Breakers Hotel, Palm Beach, Florida; the hotel is visible in the background. Left to right: Robert F. Kennedy, Patricia Kennedy, Edward M. Kennedy, and Jean Kennedy.
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01013N
The Kennedy family children pose sitting in the sand with their nanny, Katherine Conboy, on the beach at The Breakers Hotel, Palm Beach, Florida. Left to right: Jean Kennedy, Ms. Conboy, Edward M. Kennedy, Patricia Kennedy, and Robert F. Kennedy.
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00516N
The Kennedy family children pose on a walkway outside the cabanas on the beach at The Breakers Hotel, Palm Beach, Florida. Left to right: Patricia Kennedy (in back), Jean Kennedy (sitting in a baby stroller), Edward M. Kennedy (holding a toy sand shovel), and Robert F. Kennedy. [Notes: Original caption from vintage print in album KFC-049-002 reads, "Breakers Beach, March 1934, Pat, Jean, Ted, Bob." See also vintage print in album KFC-054-001.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00349N
Jean Kennedy (left, wearing a bathing cap) and an unidentified girl sit on inflatable rafts on the beach at The Breakers Hotel, Palm Beach, Florida; the hotel is visible in the background. [Notes: Original caption from vintage print in album KFC-049-002 reads, "Breakers Beach, March 1934, Jean and friend."]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00347N
Edward M. Kennedy (far right) walks along a boardwalk near the cabanas on the beach at The Breakers Hotel, Palm Beach, Florida; the hotel is visible in the background. [Notes: See also vintage print in album KFC-049-002.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00201N
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (center) sits with her daughters, Rosemary Kennedy (left) and Kathleen Kennedy, in the sand outside the cabanas on the beach at The Breakers Hotel, Palm Beach, Florida.
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00191N
Rosemary Kennedy (center left) and Kathleen Kennedy swim in the pool at The Breakers Hotel, Palm Beach, Florida.
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00125N
View of an outdoor swimming pool at The Breakers Hotel, Palm Beach, Florida. [Notes: Negative is out of focus.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00309N
The Kennedy family children pose with their nanny and governess, under the awning of a cabana on the beach at The Breakers Hotel, Palm Beach, Florida. Left to right: governess, Alice Cahill; Edward M. Kennedy (seated on Ms. Cahill's lap, holding a toy sand shovel); nanny, Katherine Conboy; Jean Kennedy (seated on Ms. Conboy's lap); Patricia Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy (both seated in front). [Notes: Original caption from vintage print in album KFC-049-002 reads, "Breakers Beach, March 1934, Miss Cahill, Ted, Pat, Kikoo, Jean and Bob."]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00306N
Jean Kennedy (wearing a bathing cap) stands on an inflatable raft on the beach at The Breakers Hotel, Palm Beach, Florida; the hotel is visible in the background. [Notes: Original caption from vintage print in album KFC-049-002 reads, "Breakers Beach, March 1934, Jean."]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00298N
Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., poses with his children outside the cabanas on the beach at The Breakers Hotel, Palm Beach, Florida. Left to right: Patricia Kennedy (in back), Jean Kennedy, Mr. Kennedy (kneeling), Edward M. Kennedy (in front), and Robert F. Kennedy. [Notes: Original caption from vintage print in album KFC-049-002 reads, "Breakers Beach, March 1934, Pat, Jean, Mr. Kennedy, Ted and Bob."]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00187N
Edward M. Kennedy sits on the wooden deck of a cabana on the beach at The Breakers Hotel, Palm Beach, Florida; nanny to the Kennedy children, Katherine Conboy (left), and governess, Alice Cahill, sit in the background. [Notes: Original caption from vintage print in album KFC-049-002 reads, "Breakers Beach, March 1934, Kikoo, Ted, Miss Cahill."]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00178N
Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., poses in the sand near the cabanas at The Breakers Hotel, Palm Beach, Florida; Rosemary Kennedy (mostly in shadow) stands at left in the background.
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00123N
Kathleen Kennedy poses in the sand near the cabanas on the beach at The Breakers Hotel, Palm Beach, Florida.
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00119N
Jean Kennedy sits with governess to the Kennedy children, Alice Cahill (right), on the wooden deck of a cabana on the beach at The Breakers Hotel, Palm Beach, Florida.
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00515N
Edward M. Kennedy (seated in center) poses with Kennedy family friend, Edward E. Moore (standing at right, with hands on his knees), under the awning of a cabana on the beach at The Breakers Hotel, Palm Beach, Florida. Also pictured, in back (L-R): Jean Kennedy (mostly hidden at edge of frame); Mary Moore; nanny to the Kennedy children, Katherine Conboy (seated); Robert F. Kennedy (seated, putting on his socks). [Notes: Original caption from vintage print in album KFC-049-002 reads, "Breakers Beach, March 1934, Mrs. Moore, Bob, Ted, [Mr.] Moore." See also vintage print in album KFC-054-001.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00514N
Patricia Kennedy (seated) poses on the wooden deck of a cabana on the beach at The Breakers Hotel, Palm Beach, Florida. [Notes: Original caption from vintage print in album KFC-049-002 reads, "Breakers Beach, March 1934, Pat."]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00348N
Patricia Kennedy (left, wearing a bathing cap) stands in the water, holding hands with an unidentified girl, at the beach at The Breakers Hotel, Palm Beach, Florida; the hotel is visible in the background. [Notes: Original caption from vintage print in album KFC-049-002 reads, "Breakers Beach, March 1934, Pat, Jean."]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00346N
Edward M. Kennedy stands on the wooden deck of a cabana on the beach at The Breakers Hotel, Palm Beach, Florida. Also pictured (in background, inside the cabana): nanny to the Kennedy children, Katherine Conboy; Robert F. Kennedy. [Notes: Original caption from vintage print in album KFC-049-002 reads, "Breakers Beach, March 1934, Ted."]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01020N
Kathleen Kennedy poses on a walkway near the cabanas on the beach at The Breakers Hotel, Palm Beach, Florida.
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01019N
Kathleen Kennedy prepares to dive from the diving board at the swimming pool at The Breakers Hotel, Palm Beach, Florida.