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Photograph folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-001-018
Contains 26 photographic prints: (KFC1430N, KFC1431N, KFC1432N, KFC1433N, KFC1434N, KFC1436N, KFC1437N, KFC1438N, KFC1439N, KFC1440N, KFC1441N, KFC1442N, KFC1443N, KFC1444N, KFC1446N, KFC1447N, KFC1449N, KFC1450N, KFC1452N, KFC1453N, KFC1519N, KFC1527N, KFC1555N, KFC1556N, KFC1557N, KFC1558N)
Photograph folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-006-020
Contains 31 photographic prints: (KFC674N, KFC675N, KFC672N, KFC719N, KFC665N, KFC682N, KFC681N, KFC680N, KFC720N, KFC679N, KFC678N, KFC677N, KFC676N, KFC669N, KFC671N, KFC673N, KFC662N, KFC663N, KFC666N, KFC667N, KFC721N, KFC664N, KFC668N, KFC670N, KFC3392P, KFC3393P)
Textual folder
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.
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01453N
Three unidentified men sit in a row boat on a lake in Killarney National Park, Killarney, Ireland. [Notes: See also ""My Ocean Trip," 18 July 1908-20 August 1909"; "Diary-style notes of touring in Europe with her father, 27 July-29 August 1908" (ROFKPP-001-001; ROFKPP-001-002), from the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Personal Papers. Scratches, spotting, and striations are original to the negative.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00674N
Kathleen Kennedy (left) rides on horseback with an unidentified woman (center) and an unidentified boy through the Gap of Dunloe in Killarney National Park, Killarney, Ireland, during a Kennedy family trip. [Notes: Original caption from vintage print in album KFC-058-001 reads, "Kick, [illegible]."]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00673N
View of a mountain valley near Killarney, Ireland. [Notes: Original caption from vintage print in album KFC-058-001 reads, "Killarney."]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00668N
Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., rides on horseback through the Gap of Dunloe in Killarney National Park, Killarney, Ireland, during a Kennedy family trip; an unidentified man rides a horse in background. [Notes: Original caption from vintage print in album KFC-058-001 reads, "Trip through Killarney - 1937, Joe, Gap of Dunloe."]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00667N
View of the Gap of Dunloe in Killarney National Park, Killarney, Ireland. [Notes: Original caption from vintage print in album KFC-058-001 reads, "Trip through Killarney, 1937." Negative is out of focus.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00666N
Several unidentified people sit in opposite row boats on a lake in Killarney National Park, Killarney, Ireland; two unidentified rowers stand in foreground. [Notes: Original caption from vintage print in album KFC-058-001 reads, "Trip through Killarney, 1937, Passengers in boat." Damage in upper portion of image is original to the negative.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01443N
View from the lakeshore of Old Weir Bridge (in background) at the Meeting of the Waters in Killarney National Park, Killarney, Ireland. [Notes: See also ""My Ocean Trip," 18 July 1908-20 August 1909"; "Diary-style notes of touring in Europe with her father, 27 July-29 August 1908" (ROFKPP-001-001; ROFKPP-001-002), from the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Personal Papers. Scratches, spotting, and striations are original to the negative.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01437N
View of a lake and mountains in Killarney National Park, Killarney, Ireland. [Notes: See also ""My Ocean Trip," 18 July 1908-20 August 1909"; "Diary-style notes of touring in Europe with her father, 27 July-29 August 1908" (ROFKPP-001-001; ROFKPP-001-002), from the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Personal Papers.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01431N
Rose Fitzgerald (gesturing with her hands) poses behind an unidentified man (rowing boat), while boating on a lake in Killarney National Park, Killarney, Ireland, during her school year abroad. [Notes: See also ""My Ocean Trip," 18 July 1908-20 August 1909"; "Diary-style notes of touring in Europe with her father, 27 July-29 August 1908" (ROFKPP-001-001; ROFKPP-001-002), from the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Personal Papers. Spotting throughout image is original to the negative.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00677N
View of Lough Leane, Purple Mountain (foreground), and Tomies Mountain in Killarney National Park, Killarney, Ireland. [Notes: Original caption from vintage print in album KFC-058-001 reads, "Killarney." Scratches and spotting in upper portion of image are original to the negative.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00671N
Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., and Kathleen Kennedy (not discernible in image) ride on horseback with several unidentified people (all seen from behind) through the Gap of Dunloe in Killarney National Park, Killarney, Ireland, during a Kennedy family trip. [Notes: Original caption from vintage print in album KFC-058-001 reads, "Gap of Dunloe."]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00670N
View of a lake and mountains in Killarney National Park, Killarney, Ireland; an unidentified boy in a school uniform is partially visible at bottom left in a row boat. [Notes: Original caption from vintage print in album KFC-058-001 reads, "Killarney."]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00669N
An unidentified man (left, partially visible) and woman sit in a row boat on a lake in Killarney National Park, Killarney, Ireland. [Notes: Original caption from vintage print in album KFC-058-001 reads, "Killarney." Scratches and spotting in upper portion of image are original to the negative.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00665N
Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. (right, partially out of frame), sits in a row boat on a lake in Killarney National Park, Killarney, Ireland, during a Kennedy family trip. [Notes: Original caption from vintage print in album KFC-058-001 reads, "Trip through Killarney, 1937, Joe."]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00664N
Two unidentified men row a boat on Lough Leane in Killarney National Park, Killarney, Ireland; man seated at left is unidentified. Also visible in background are Brickeen Bridge and Muckross Lake. [Notes: Original caption from vintage print in album KFC-058-001 reads, "Trip through Killarney, 1937." Blurriness, scratches, and spotting are original to the negative.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00663N
Several unidentified people sit in a row boat on a lake in Killarney National Park, Killarney, Ireland. [Notes: Original caption from vintage print in album KFC-058-001 reads, "Trip through Killarney, 1937, Passengers in boat."]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00662N
Several unidentified people travel in a row boat through the Meeting of the Waters in Killarney National Park, Killarney, Ireland; the Old Weir Bridge is visible in the background. [Notes: Original caption from vintage print in album KFC-058-001 reads, "Trip through Killarney, 1937, Passengers in boat."]