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Textual folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-089-001
This photograph album documents Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy’s attendance at two events in Worcester, Massachusetts, on February 14, 1962. The gold stamped title on the front cover reads, “Mrs. Joseph P. Kennedy / Worcester, Massachusetts / February 15, 1962.” Photographs capture a luncheon at the Worcester Federal Savings and Loan Association and a reception at Assumption College, where Rose delivered a lecture in French about her experiences traveling in France. Her daughter-in-law, Joan Bennett Kennedy, wife of Edward M. Kennedy, accompanied her to these events. Others pictured in photographs include president of the Worcester Federal Savings and Loan Association, Raymond P. Harold; publisher of the Worcester Telegram and Evening Gazette, Richard C. Steele; Assumption College President, Rev. Armand H. Desautels, A.A.; Assumption College Director of Development, Rev. Joseph A. Pelletier, A.A.; and Girl Scouts Michele Horgan and Jean Liddy, who presented Rose with a corsage to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Girl Scouts organization in the United States. This photograph album contains 21 photographic prints.
Textual folder
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.