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Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01734N
Kennedy family friends, Nancy Tenney and Abbott Widdicombe (both seated on chair at left), converse at a party at the apartment of Kathleen Kennedy in Washington, D.C.; friend, Mary Dickey, and an unidentified woman (with back to camera) sit at right. [Notes: Image is also represented by vintage print KFC4367P. See also vintage print in album KFC-073-001.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01769N
Kennedy family friend, Abbott Widdicombe (left), sits on a sofa with two unidentified men at a party at the apartment of Kathleen Kennedy in Washington, D.C. [Notes: See also vintage print in album KFC-073-001. Streaking in upper portion of image is original to the negative.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01761N
Kennedy family friend, Abbott Widdicombe (seated in an armchair), reads a newspaper clipping at a party at the apartment of Kathleen Kennedy in Washington, D.C. [Notes: See also vintage print in album KFC-073-001.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01716N
Kathleen Kennedy (right) plays backgammon with Kennedy family friends at a party in Washington, D.C. Left to right: Abbott Widdicombe (lying on the floor); Alfredo De La Vega; Bill Mitchell; Nancy Tenney; Kathleen Kennedy. [Notes: Original caption from vintage print in album KFC-073-001 reads, “Alfredo, Bill Mitchell, Abbott, Kick, Nancy." Spots throughout image are original to the negative.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01715N
Kennedy family friend, Bill Mitchell, sits on a sofa with Kathleen Kennedy and friend, Abbott Widdicombe (right), at a party in Washington, D.C. [Notes: Original caption from vintage print in album KFC-073-001 reads, “Washington, Nov. 1941, Bill Mitchell." Spots throughout image are original to the negative.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01714N
Kathleen Kennedy sits on a sofa with Kennedy family friend, Abbott Widdicombe, at a party in Washington, D.C. [Notes: Original caption from vintage print in album KFC-073-001 reads, “Washington, Nov. 1941, Kick, Abbott.” Spots throughout image are original to the negative.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01713N
Kathleen Kennedy (right) plays backgammon with Kennedy family friend, Abbott Widdicombe, at a party in Washington, D.C. [Notes: Original caption from vintage print in album KFC-073-001 reads, “Abbott W., Washington, Nov. 1941.” Spots throughout image and fogging at left are original to the negative.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-02022N
John F. Kennedy visits with friends outside the Kennedy family home in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. John F. Kennedy (bottom right with back to camera, partially visible) reclines on the grass with Demarest "Demi" Lloyd, Jr. (left, turned away from camera), Cy Taylor (right, partially visible), and Nancy Tenney (seated center); William Warren "Bill" Scranton and Anne Reed play Backgammon beside Abbott Widdicombe on the brick patio in background. [Notes: Original caption from vintage print in album KFC-073-001 reads, "Nancy's birthday, Aug. 1941."]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-02018N
John F. Kennedy sits on a wicker lounge chair with Kennedy family friend, Anne Reed, on the porch of the Kennedy family home in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts; family friend Abbott Widdicombe stands at right. [Notes: Original caption from album KFC-073-001 reads, "Hyannisport 1941, Anne, Jack, Abbott."]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01991N
Eunice Kennedy (reclining on grass) plays Backgammon with Kennedy family friend, Abbott Widdicombe, outside the Kennedy family home in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts; family friend Anne Reed is visible playing a board game on the brick patio at back left. [Notes: Original caption from vintage print in album KFC-073-001 reads, "Hyannisport 1941, Abbott, Eunice." Streaking along top edge is original to the negative.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01673N
Kennedy family friend, Cy Taylor, reclines on the grass outside the Kennedy family home in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts; Eunice Kennedy (upper right) and Abbott Widdicombe (upper left) are partially visible in background playing Backgammon. [Notes: Original caption from vintage print in album KFC-073-001 reads, "Edgartown Regatta, July 1941, Cy." Damage in right portion of image is original to the negative.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01658N
Kennedy family friends sit outdoors under a wooden frame gazebo on the grounds of Southways, the Pillsbury family estate in Orono, on Lake Minnetonka, Minnesota, during the Fourth of July holiday. Left to right: Abbott Widdicombe, Constance "Connie" Shepard (with her arm around Abbott's neck), and Gaspard d'Andelot "Don" Belin. [Notes: Original caption from vintage print in album KFC-073-001 reads, "Abbot, Connie Shepard, Don."]
Textual folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-076-001
This scrapbook, compiled by Kathleen Kennedy, documents her life during the years 1941 to 1942, when she worked at the Washington Times-Herald newspaper in Washington, D.C. The scrapbook contains pre-printed ruled pages with affixed newspaper clippings, greeting cards, calling cards, invitations, telegrams, and other types of printed ephemera. Clippings of note include Kathleen’s review of the Abbott and Costello film, “Ride ‘Em Cowboy”; an article titled, “English Boys Studying in U.S. Think Our Girls Are Wonderful,” written by Kathleen’s brother, Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr.; and two newspaper columns about her brother, John F. Kennedy, written by journalist and Kennedy family friend, Inga Arvad. Also of note are telegrams sent by Kathleen’s father, Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.; her future husband, William "Billy" Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington; and Washington Times-Herald editor, Frank Waldrop. The scrapbook also contains telegrams from Kennedy family friends, including Anthony “Tony” St. Clair-Erskine, the 6th Earl of Rosslyn; Abbott Widdicombe; Elsie Talbott Mead; Kirk LeMoyne “Lem” Billings; Robert “Bob” Spalding Coleman; Marian Barkley Truitt and Max O’Rell Truitt; Constance “Connie” Shepard and her fiancé, Henry Gaylord “Gay” Dillingham; Charles Alfred "Chuck" Pillsbury; George Houk Mead, Jr.; Viscountess Nancy Astor; Jane "Pill" Pillsbury; and William Warren "Bill" Scranton. The scrapbook contains 58 telegrams, 33 newspaper and magazine clippings, 17 greeting and calling cards, 13 invitations, and 11 other pieces of printed ephemera.
Textual folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-073-001
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.