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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Lawrence F. O'Brien
JFKWHSFLOB-008-020
This folder contains correspondence with and memoranda regarding Representative Edna F. Kelly of New York. Topics include requests for White House tours, and oil pipelines in Italy and Austria.
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Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-061-001
This scrapbook, compiled by Joseph P. “Joe” Kennedy, Jr., documents his education, travels, and other aspects of his life from 1936 to 1940. The scrapbook contains clippings, photographs, postcards, and printed ephemera related to his time at Harvard University; his father, Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.’s tenure as United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom; trips to various European countries; and social events and activities. Newspaper and periodical clippings cover a wide range of topics, including Joe, Jr.’s athletic career and involvement in student government at Harvard; the Kennedy family’s arrival in London, England, following Joe, Sr.'s appointment as ambassador; the prospect of British involvement in the global conflict that became World War II; Joe, Sr.'s opinions on and actions related to the war; and other political and society news and events. Others featured in clippings and pictured in photographs include Joe, Jr.’s mother, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy; his siblings, John F. “Jack” Kennedy, Rosemary Kennedy, Kathleen “Kick” Kennedy, Eunice Kennedy, Patricia Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Jean Kennedy, and Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy; his grandparents, John F. "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald and Mary Josephine Hannon Fitzgerald; his cousin, Joseph Francis Gargan, Jr.; and family friend, Hugh Fraser. Printed ephemera pasted into the scrapbook include invitations to various parties, receptions, luncheons, dinners, weddings, meetings, and banquets, including a ball at Buckingham Palace; event programs; menus; tickets; and calling cards. Of note are a set of fingerprints that Joe, Jr., had taken during a visit to the Boston Police Headquarters; an envelope containing five bird feathers; photographs of Joe, Jr., dressed in drag for a Harvard theater production; clippings related to his purported relationship with figure skater Megan Taylor; a letter from British Member of Parliament, Anthony Eden; photographic prints and postcards that capture a Kennedy family trip to St. Moritz, Switzerland; a photograph of Joe, Jr., aboard the R.M.S. Mauretania; clippings related to Joe, Jr.’s voyage from London to New York City, New York; Spanish paper currency; an unsent postcard addressed to Katherine “Kikoo” Conboy, nanny to the Kennedy children, signed by Joe, Jr.; a photographic postcard signed by Alois Lang, the actor who portrayed Jesus in the 1934 performance of the Oberammergau Passion Play in Bavaria, Germany; contact prints of strips of 35mm black and white negatives that capture scenes from Joe, Jr.’s 1939 trip to Spain with Kathleen following the end of the Spanish Civil War, including images of Spanish Loyalist tanks and damage from the siege of the Alcázar of Toledo; a photographic postcard featuring an image of Adolf Hitler shaking hands with Hermann Göring; signed portrait photos of several unidentified women; and prints of four watercolor illustrations depicting scenes from the Spanish Civil War, credited to “Artillery Lieutenant Luis Serrano.” Other destinations pictured in photographic prints and postcards include Warsaw, Poland; Cannes, France; Capri, Rome, Venice, Naples, and Amalfi, Italy; Copenhagen, Denmark; Czechoslovakia; Killarney and other locations in Ireland; and Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), Russia. Original handwritten captions and inscriptions are written in black ink on some of the leaves. This photograph album contains 164 photographic prints and postcards, 134 newspaper and periodical clippings, 29 pieces of printed ephemera, six banknotes and two banknote fragments, four pieces of correspondence, and four prints of watercolor drawings.
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Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-054-001
This scrapbook, compiled by Joseph P. “Joe” Kennedy, Jr., documents his education, travels, and family life between 1932 and 1938. The title on the cover reads, “Album.” The scrapbook contains photographs of and printed ephemera related to his studies at the London School of Economics (1933-1934) and Harvard University (1934-1938), as well as time spent with family and friends at the Kennedy family residences in Bronxville in New York, Palm Beach in Florida, and Hyannis Port in Massachusetts, and traveling in Europe. Destinations pictured include Switzerland, England, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Scotland, Russia, Ukraine, Austria, Bermuda, Georgia, and France. Of note are telegrams from Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy to their son; photographs of Joe, Jr., skiing with friends in Zermatt, Switzerland; two portrait cards from the Residenz Museum in Munich, Germany; photographic postcards featuring images of the 1934 performance of the Oberammergau Passion Play in Bavaria, Germany; an invitation from First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt to Joe, Jr., for an event at the White House; materials related to Joe, Jr.’s athletic career at Harvard, where he participated in football, swimming, and rugby, including photographs of the 1936 Bermuda Rugby Week competition; a Bermuda Islands court summons issued to “Joseph Kennedy” and dated March 30, 1936; and telegrams sent to Joe, Jr., for his birthday. Kennedy family members and friends pictured in photographs and clippings include Joseph, Sr.; Rose; John F. “Honey Fitz” Fitzgerald; John F. Kennedy; Rosemary Kennedy; Kathleen Kennedy; Eunice Kennedy; Patricia Kennedy; Robert F. Kennedy; Jean Kennedy; Edward M. Kennedy; Kirk LeMoyne “Lem” Billings; nanny to the Kennedy children, Katherine Conboy; Edward E. Moore and Mary Moore; Sir James Calder; and economist Harold Laski. Handwritten captions and inscriptions are written in blue and black ink on many of the leaves. This scrapbook contains 224 photographic prints (including three tintypes), 53 newspaper and magazine clippings, and 36 photographic postcards, as well as telegrams, letters, invitations, menus, tickets, picture postcards, calling cards, and other types of printed ephemera.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C17343-B
Ceremony celebrating the Unification of Italy. Italian Ambassador to the United States, Manlio Brosio speaks from the lectern; attendees listen while seated in the audience and onstage; members of the United States Marine Band sit onstage at left. Seated in group at right onstage, front row (L-R): Archbishop Patrick A. O’Boyle; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Speaker of the House of Representatives, Sam Rayburn; President John F. Kennedy; Congressman Victor L. Anfuso (New York); unidentified man; Secretary of State, Dean Rusk; Senator John O. Pastore (Rhode Island). State Department Auditorium, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C17339
Ceremony celebrating the Unification of Italy. Opera singer, Franco Corelli, sings from center of stage; attendees listen while seated in the audience and onstage; members of the United States Marine Band sit onstage at left. Seated in group at right onstage, front row (L-R): Archbishop Patrick A. O’Boyle; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Speaker of the House of Representatives, Sam Rayburn; Italian Ambassador to the United States, Manlio Brosio; President John F. Kennedy; Congressman Victor L. Anfuso (New York); unidentified man. State Department Auditorium, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C17337
Ceremony celebrating the Unification of Italy. President John F. Kennedy speaks from the lectern; attendees listen while seated in the audience and onstage; members of the United States Marine Band sit onstage at left. Seated in group at right onstage, front row (L-R): Archbishop Patrick A. O’Boyle; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Speaker of the House of Representatives, Sam Rayburn; Italian Ambassador to the United States, Manlio Brosio; Congressman Victor L. Anfuso (New York); unidentified man; Secretary of State, Dean Rusk; Senator John O. Pastore (Rhode Island). State Department Auditorium, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C17336
Ceremony celebrating the Unification of Italy. President John F. Kennedy speaks from the lectern; attendees listen while seated in the audience and onstage; members of the United States Marine Band sit onstage at left. Seated in group at right onstage, front row (L-R): Archbishop Patrick A. O’Boyle; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Speaker of the House of Representatives, Sam Rayburn; Italian Ambassador to the United States, Manlio Brosio; Congressman Victor L. Anfuso (New York); unidentified man; Secretary of State, Dean Rusk; Senator John O. Pastore (Rhode Island). State Department Auditorium, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C17335
Ceremony celebrating the Unification of Italy. L-R: Two unidentified members of the United States Marine Band; President John F. Kennedy (with a cut above his left eye), at lectern; Congressman Victor L. Anfuso (New York); Archbishop Patrick A. O’Boyle. State Department, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C17334
Ceremony celebrating the Unification of Italy. Italian Ambassador to the United States, Manlio Brosio speaks from the lectern; attendees listen while seated in the audience and onstage; members of the United States Marine Band sit onstage at left. Seated in group at right onstage, front row (L-R): Archbishop Patrick A. O’Boyle; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Speaker of the House of Representatives, Sam Rayburn; President John F. Kennedy; Congressman Victor L. Anfuso (New York); unidentified man; Secretary of State, Dean Rusk. State Department Auditorium, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C17333
Ceremony celebrating the Unification of Italy. Italian Ambassador to the United States, Manlio Brosio speaks from the lectern; attendees listen while seated in the audience and onstage; members of the United States Marine Band sit onstage at left. Seated in group at right onstage, front row (L-R): Archbishop Patrick A. O’Boyle; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Speaker of the House of Representatives, Sam Rayburn; President John F. Kennedy; Congressman Victor L. Anfuso (New York); unidentified man; Secretary of State, Dean Rusk. State Department Auditorium, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C17332
Ceremony celebrating the Unification of Italy. Front row, L-R: Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Speaker of the House of Representatives, Sam Rayburn; Italian Ambassador to the United States, Manlio Brosio; President John F. Kennedy (with a cut above his left eye). Others include: Congressman Roland V. Libonati (Illinois), at left, behind Johnson’s shoulder; Congressman Robert N. Giaimo (Connecticut), third row, between Rayburn and Brosio, wearing glasses; Congressman Paul A. Fino (New York), in second row, between Brosio and President Kennedy; Congressman Silvio O. Conte (Massachusetts), behind Fino, face half-hidden; Congressman Joseph P. Addabbo (New York), right of the President, third row; Congressman George P. Miller (California), far right, second row. State Department Auditorium, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C17330
Ceremony celebrating the Unification of Italy. L-R: Congressman Victor L. Anfuso (New York), at lectern; Archbishop Patrick A. O’Boyle; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Speaker of the House of Representatives, Sam Rayburn; Italian Ambassador to the United States, Manlio Brosio; President John F. Kennedy (with a cut above his left eye); Congressman Paul A. Fino (New York), in second row. State Department Auditorium, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C17329
Ceremony celebrating the Unification of Italy. L-R: Congressman Victor L. Anfuso (New York); Archbishop Patrick A. O’Boyle; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Speaker of the House of Representatives, Sam Rayburn; Italian Ambassador to the United States, Manlio Brosio; President John F. Kennedy (with a cut above his left eye); Congressman Paul A. Fino (New York), behind President Kennedy. State Department Auditorium, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C17328
Ceremony celebrating the Unification of Italy. L-R: Congressman Victor L. Anfuso (New York), facing away; Archbishop Patrick A. O’Boyle (facing away); Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Speaker of the House of Representatives, Sam Rayburn; Italian Ambassador to the United States, Manlio Brosio; President John F. Kennedy (with a cut above his left eye); Congressman Paul A. Fino (New York), in second row. State Department Auditorium, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6429-P
Ceremony celebrating the Unification of Italy. President John F. Kennedy, at lectern. Seated onstage at right, L-R (front row): Archbishop Patrick A. O’Boyle; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Speaker of the House of Representatives, Sam Rayburn; Italian Ambassador to the United States, Manlio Brosio; Congressman Victor L. Anfuso (New York); unidentified man; Secretary of State, Dean Rusk; Senator John O. Pastore (Rhode Island). Unidentified members of the United States Marine Band sit onstage at left. State Department Auditorium, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6429-O
Ceremony celebrating the Unification of Italy. Congressman Victor L. Anfuso (New York) speaks at lectern. Seated onstage at right, L-R (front row): Archbishop Patrick A. O’Boyle; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Speaker of the House of Representatives, Sam Rayburn; Italian Ambassador to the United States, Manlio Brosio; President John F. Kennedy; unidentified man; Secretary of State, Dean Rusk; Senator John O. Pastore (Rhode Island). Unidentified members of the United States Marine Band sit onstage at left. State Department Auditorium, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6429-G
Ceremony celebrating the Unification of Italy. President John F. Kennedy, at lectern. Seated, L-R (front row): Archbishop Patrick A. O’Boyle; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Speaker of the House of Representatives, Sam Rayburn; Italian Ambassador to the United States, Manlio Brosio. Second row (L-R): Congressman Roland V. Libonati (Illinois); two unidentified men; Congressman Paul A. Fino (New York). Back row (L-R): unidentified man; Congressman Robert N. Giaimo (Connecticut); Congressman Emilio Q. Daddario (Connecticut); Congressman Silvio O. Conte (Massachusetts); Congressman Dominick V. Daniels (New Jersey); Congressman Joseph P. Addabbo (New York). State Department Auditorium, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6429-E
Ceremony celebrating the Unification of Italy. L-R: President John F. Kennedy (with a cut above his left eye); Congressman Victor L. Anfuso (New York); Archbishop Patrick A. O’Boyle. State Department, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6429-D
Ceremony celebrating the Unification of Italy. L-R: Speaker of the House of Representatives, Sam Rayburn; unidentified man (bowing and shaking President Kennedy’s hand); Italian Ambassador to the United States, Manlio Brosio (behind unidentified man); Congressman Emilio Q. Daddario (Connecticut); Congressman Paul A. Fino (New York), laughing; President John F. Kennedy (with a cut above his left eye). State Department, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6429-C
Ceremony celebrating the Unification of Italy. L-R: Congressman Victor L. Anfuso (New York); Archbishop Patrick A. O’Boyle; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Speaker of the House of Representatives, Sam Rayburn; Italian Ambassador to the United States, Manlio Brosio; President John F. Kennedy (with a cut above his left eye); persons in background unidentified. State Department, Washington, D.C.
Collection
DPS
Moving image recordings, 1930-1968 (bulk 1960-1964). Amateur "home movie" recordings of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, and other members of the Kennedy family campaigning, on trips, and in candid situations; funeral and memorial events for John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy; amateur films showing Ernest Hemingway camping, fishing and hunting.