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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; Beverley 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.
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Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00455N
Rosemary Kennedy (right) poses with her brother, Edward M. Kennedy (kneeling center, with arms around unidentified dog), and three unidentified girls, on the lawn in Prince's Gate Garden behind the residence of the United States Ambassador to Great Britain, in London, England. [Notes: Negative is double exposed.]
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Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-02044N
Regiments of the Household Cavalry participate in Trooping the Colour, a ceremonial celebration to honor the official birthday of King George VI, held on the Horse Guards Parade, London, England. The royal procession (on horseback) is visible at center; spectators observe in foreground. [Notes: Spotting is original to the negative.]
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Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-02039N
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (seated on viewing platform at right, wearing hat and gloves) observes as regiments of the Household Cavalry participate in Trooping the Colour, a ceremonial celebration to honor the official birthday of King George VI, held on the Horse Guards Parade, London, England; the royal procession (on horseback) is visible at center.
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-02035N
Regiments of the Household Cavalry participate in Trooping the Colour, a ceremonial celebration to honor the official birthday of King George VI, held on the Horse Guards Parade, London, England. The royal procession (in background, on horseback) is visible at center right; spectators observe in foreground. [Notes: Spotting is original to the negative.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-02033N
Regiments of the Household Cavalry participate in Trooping the Colour, a ceremonial celebration to honor the official birthday of King George VI, held on the Horse Guards Parade, London, England. The royal procession (in background, on horseback) is visible at center right; spectators observe in foreground. [Notes: Spotting is original to the negative.]
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Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01954N
Edward M. Kennedy (left) and an unidentified boy each sit astride a donkey in Rome, Italy, during a Kennedy family trip; the donkeys (wearing saddles and bridles) pull a covered carriage (writing on carriage reads, "Parco dei Bambini" (Children's Park)). [Notes: See also vintage print in album KFC-067-001.]
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Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-02046N
Members of the King's Life Guard are visible in the courtyard of the Horse Guards building on Whitehall road in London, England, during the changing of the Royal Guard; Life Guards appear on foot at left (seen from behind) and mounted on horseback at right.
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Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-02042N
Edward M. Kennedy (second from left, wearing coat and hat) and Jean Kennedy (fourth from left, partially visible) observe members of the King's Life Guard, in the courtyard of the Horse Guards building on Whitehall road in London, England, during the changing of the Royal Guard; Life Guards appear on foot at left (carrying sabers) and mounted on horseback at right.
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Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-02041N
The King's Life Guard (on horseback, carrying sabers), stand at attention in the courtyard of the Horse Guards building on Whitehall road in London, England, during the changing of the Royal Guard; bystanders are visible in background.
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Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-02036N
Two members of the King's Life Guard (on horseback, carrying sabers), proceed in front of Buckingham Palace in London, England, during the changing of the Royal Guard; bystanders observe at right.
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Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-02031N
A trumpeter leads the King's Life Guard (all on horseback), in front of Buckingham Palace in London, England, during the changing of the Royal Guard.
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Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-02029N
The Leader of Horse (right, carrying saber) and the King's Life Guard (all on horseback), stand at attention at the Horse Guards building on Whitehall road in London, England, during the changing of the Royal Guard.
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-02037N
Regiments of the Household Cavalry participate in Trooping the Colour, a ceremonial celebration to honor the official birthday of King George VI, held on the Horse Guards Parade, London, England. The royal procession (in background, on horseback) is partially visible at center right; spectators observe in foreground.
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-02034N
Regiments of the Household Cavalry participate in Trooping the Colour, a ceremonial celebration to honor the official birthday of King George VI, held on the Horse Guards Parade, London, England. The royal procession (in background, on horseback) is visible at center right; spectators observe in foreground. [Notes: Spotting is original to the negative.]
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Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-02032N
Regiments of the Household Cavalry participate in Trooping the Colour, a ceremonial celebration to honor the official birthday of King George VI, held on the Horse Guards Parade, London, England. The royal procession (in background, on horseback) is visible at center right; spectators observe in foreground.
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Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01981N
Two geese (visible behind wrought iron fence) walk on the grass at the London Zoo in Regent's Park in London, England.
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Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01977N
An unidentified man in uniform (right, partially visible) attends to a camel wearing a bridle at the London Zoo in Regent's Park in London, England.
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Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01955N
The Kennedy children ride on an elephant during a trip to the London Zoo in Regent's Park in London England. Left to right: Jean Kennedy, Edward M. Kennedy, unidentified boy, Robert F. Kennedy; two unidentified attendants (wearing uniforms) are visible standing on either side of the elephant.
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Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01603N
Singer and Kennedy family friend, Morton Downey (seated), leans back in a wicker chair in the courtyard of the Kennedy family home in Palm Beach, Florida, during the Christmas holiday; Kennedy family dog, Fury (center), reclines near Mr. Downey.
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Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01966N
Edward M. Kennedy (left) and an unidentified boy each sit astride a donkey in Rome, Italy, during a Kennedy family trip; the donkeys (wearing saddles and bridles) pull a covered carriage (writing on carriage reads, "Corsa C[illegible superscript] 50" (Race C[illegible superscript] 50)). An unidentified woman and child (holding balloon) are visible in the background at left.
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01108N
An unidentified woman (face in shadow) leans down to pet two small dogs lying in the grass in Kensington Gardens, London, England.
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Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01095N
Kennedy family friend, Torbert Macdonald, runs on the lawn of Prince's Gate Garden, behind the residence of the United States Ambassador to Great Britain, in London, England; a dog is visible in background at right. [Notes: Blurred image is original to the negative.]