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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-068-001
This photograph album, compiled by Kathleen “Kick” Kennedy, documents various moments in the lives of the Kennedy family between 1922 and 1944, with most materials dating between 1931 and 1944. The gold stamped title on the cover reads, “Photographs.” Photographs capture Kathleen with family and friends at the Kennedy family’s residences in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts; Bronxville, New York; and Palm Beach, Florida. Other photographs capture family members and friends in Plymouth, Massachusetts; at the American Embassy in London, England; aboard an ocean liner traveling from England to the United States; and at various other locations. In addition to Kathleen, those pictured include her parents, Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy; her grandparents, John F. “Honey Fitz” Fitzgerald and Mary Josephine Hannon Fitzgerald; her siblings, Joseph P. “Joe” Kennedy, Jr., John F. "Jack" Kennedy, Rosemary Kennedy, Eunice Kennedy, Patricia “Pat” Kennedy, Robert F. “Bobby/Bob” Kennedy, Jean Kennedy, and Edward M. “Ted” Kennedy; her aunt, Agnes Fitzgerald Gargan, and uncle, Joseph Francis Gargan, Sr.; her cousins, John F. “Jackie” Fitzgerald, Marion Eunice Fitzgerald, Mary Jo Gargan, Joseph Francis “Joey” Gargan, Jr., and Ann Gargan; nanny to the Kennedy children, Katherine “Kicko/Kiko” Conboy; governesses to the Kennedy children, Alice Cahill and Elizabeth Dunn; nurse to the Kennedy children, Luella Hennessey; and Kennedy family friends, Edward E. Moore, Sally Bottomley, Anne McDonnell, Mary Frances "Sancy" Falvey, Grover Loening, Tom Killefer, Kirk LeMoyne “Lem” Billings, Max O’Rell Truitt, Paul Jerome "Boogie" Chase, Harriet “Etsie” Wells, David L. “Dave” Hackett, and Michael J. “Mike” Egan. Other friends identified in original captions and inscriptions include Mary Louise Ghert, Mary Hubbard, Donald “Donny” Cobb, Tommy Dean, Joey Crowley, Jean Duff, “Rita,” “Jimmy,” “Frances,” “Frankie,” and “Barbara,” as well as a woman named “Mrs. Greene,” identified as Jean’s godmother. Also pictured are horses and other animals, including two of the Kennedy family’s dogs, Fury and Spooky, as well as boats, including Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.'s yacht, the “Davilis.” Original handwritten captions are written in blue and black ink and pencil on many of the leaves and on the versos of some photographs. This photograph album contains 191 photographic prints and three photographic postcards.