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Photograph folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-001-037
Contains 47 photographic prints: (KFC1575N, KFC239N, KFC1572N, KFC1580N, KFC1577N, KFC1578N, KFC1579N, KFC252N, KFC1565N, KFC256N, KFC245N, KFC247N, KFC1576N, KFC242N, KFC250N, KFC1566N, KFC257N, KFC1569N, KFC241N, KFC1567N, KFC1568N, KFC1573N, KFC243N, KFC1574N, KFC244N, KFC1570N, KFC254N, KFC246N, KFC1571N, KFC253N, KFC249N, KFC255N, KFC251N, KFC3133P, KFC3134P, KFC3135P, KFC3136P, KFC3137P, KFC3138P, KFC3139P, KFC3140P, KFC3141P, KFC3142P, KFC3143P, KFC3144P, KFC3145P, KFC3146P)
Textual folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-043-001
This photograph album, compiled by Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, documents a Boston Chamber of Commerce tour of locations in the Caribbean and Central and South America in the spring of 1913, on which Rose accompanied her father, then-Mayor of Boston, John F. "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald. Photographs capture a wide range of scenes from the trip, including the party’s departure from the United Fruit Company terminal at Long Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts; the overseas voyage aboard the S.S. Metapan; scenic vistas as viewed from the Metapan; landscapes and street and village scenes in Jamaica, Colombia, and Panama; and views of the construction of the Panama Canal. Localities pictured include Kingston, Port Royal, and Gordon Town, Jamaica; Barranquilla, Cartagena, Ciénaga, Sabanilla, and Santa Marta, Colombia; and Ancón, Colón, and Panama City, Panama. Original handwritten captions are written in white ink on the leaves beneath most photographs. Original handwritten inscriptions are written in black ink and pencil on the versos of most photographs. This photograph album contains 113 photographic prints.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-206-1-63
President John F. Kennedy motions with his arm towards the proposed site of his future Presidential Library, along the banks of the Charles River in Boston, Massachusetts. Standing with President Kennedy at right: Archivist of the United States, Dr. Wayne C. Grover; Administrative Vice President of Harvard University, Lewis Gard Wiggins; Edward B. Hanify, attorney for the firm of Ropes & Gray. Also pictured: Governor of Massachusetts, Endicott “Chub” Peabody; White House Secret Service agents, Floyd Boring and Ron Pontius. Harvard University’s Eliot House and Dunster House are visible in the background. Cambridge, Massachusetts.