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Photograph folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-013-014
Contains 34 photographic prints and one duplicate print: (KFC75N, KFC77N (2 copies), KFC4356P (original negative is KFC75N), KFC90N, KFC94N, KFC98N, KFC78N, KFC80N, KFC1791N, KFC1801N, KFC1818N, KFC93N, KFC1794N, KFC1804N, KFC72N, KFC76N, KFC87N, KFC70N, KFC1795N, KFC79N, KFC92N, KFC1793N, KFC1796N, KFC1792N, KFC85N, KFC86N, KFC1803N, KFC1802N, KFC1805N, KFC83N, KFC1817N, KFC218N, KFC10N, KFC223N)
Photograph folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-012-029
Contains 25 photographic prints: (KFC4367P (original negative is KFC1734N), KFC1734N, KFC1749N, KFC1752N, KFC1753N, KFC1754N, KFC1755N, KFC1756N, KFC1757N, KFC1758N, KFC1759N, KFC1760N, KFC1731N, KFC1733N, KFC1732N, KFC1735N, KFC1736N, KFC1737N, KFC1738N, KFC1741N, KFC1739N, KFC1740N, KFC1742N, KFC1743N, KFC1744N)
Photograph folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-012-028
Contains 20 photographic prints: (KFC1785N, KFC1787N, KFC1784N, KFC4366P, KFC1832N, KFC1762N, KFC1761N, KFC1763N, KFC1768N, KFC1769N, KFC1778N, KFC1779N, KFC1780N, KFC1781N, KFC1786N, KFC1788N, KFC1789N, KFC17980N, KFC1831N, KFC1830N)
Photograph folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-012-027
Contains 30 photographic prints: (KFC1829N, KFC1807N, KFC1783N, KFC1716N, KFC1745N, KFC1748N, KFC1713N, KFC1714N, KFC1782N, KFC1816N, KFC1806N, KFC1824N, KFC1825N, KFC1826N, KFC1827N, KFC1828N, KFC1808N, KFC1809N, KFC1810N, KFC1811N, KFC1812N, KFC1813N, KFC1814N, KFC1815N, KFC1800N, KFC1799N, KFC1798N, KFC1797N, KFC1715N, KFC1712N)
Textual folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-079-001
This scrapbook, compiled by Kathleen “Kick” Kennedy, chronicles her service as a Staff Assistant for the American Red Cross in London, England, during World War II, from 1943 to 1944. The scrapbook contains pre-printed ruled pages, with the first section including alphabetical tabs along the right edge. It contains newspaper and magazine clippings and other pieces of printed ephemera that relate to a wide range of topics, including British involvement in World War II; Kathleen’s arrival in London; her brother John F. Kennedy’s service in the United States Navy and his command of the motor torpedo boat, PT-109, in the Solomon Islands; William “Billy” Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington (formally referred to as “Lord Hartington”), and his candidacy for the West Derbyshire by-election of 1944; Kathleen’s marriage to Billy Hartington; and society and entertainment news and events. In addition to Kathleen, those pictured in photographs and identified in original captions include American Red Cross volunteer Mildred “Mid” Eberle; United States Navy Lt. Oren Root; Lady Anne Cavendish; Deborah Vivien "Debo" Freeman-Mitford Cavendish; Billy; Anthony “Tony” St. Clair-Erskine, the 6th Earl of Rosslyn; Sir John Charles Peniston “Buffles” Milbanke; Sheila Milbanke; Lady Elizabeth Cavendish; Lord Edward Norman “Ned” Fitzmaurice; Hon. Charles Richard Strutt; British jockey and member of the British Guards Armoured Division, Major Peter Cazalet; British steeplechaser and member of the Welsh Guards, Captain Anthony Mildmay; Lady Jean Ogilvy Lloyd, Baroness Lloyd; members of the American Red Cross Hans Crescent Golf Team; American golfer Howard Scoggins; member of the King’s Royal Rifle Corps, Lt. Richard F. Wood; and British rugby player and Member of Parliament, William Wavell Wakefield. Other items of note include an “Artiste’s salary voucher” for Kathleen’s role as an extra in the film “English Without Tears”; correspondence with the American Red Cross regarding her violation of wartime censorship rules and her potential violation of Red Cross policies regarding political activities; a souvenir golf scorecard for a match between the Hans Crescent Golf Club and the Muswell Hill Golf Club; documentation allowing Kathleen to vote in the Parliamentary bi-election; a typed account sent to Kathleen from the Regimental Headquarters of the British Army’s Coldstream Guards that details the activities of her husband Billy’s regiment in the weeks prior to his death during a military campaign in Belgium on September 9, 1944; a draft of remarks given by Kathleen at a Derbyshire Federation of Women's Institutes exhibition; magazine clippings featuring Fred and Adele Astaire; and photographic postcards featuring Levens Hall and Chatsworth House, both in England, and Lismore Castle in Ireland. A final item of note is a contact print of a strip of six 35mm black and white negatives featuring images of a cross marking the site near the town of Heppen, Belgium, where Billy was killed in action. Original handwritten captions are written in black and blue ink and pencil on many of the leaves. This scrapbook contains 175 pieces of ephemera, including newspaper and magazine clippings, letters, notes, invitations, and political pamphlets, as well as 35 photographic prints.
Textual folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-070-001
This scrapbook, compiled by Joseph P. “Joe” Kennedy, Jr., documents his travels, family life, political work, and naval career between 1938 and 1941. The gold stamped title on the cover reads, “Scrap Book.” It contains newspaper clippings, photographic prints and postcards, handwritten and typed letters, and printed ephemera related to his travels in the United States and Europe, including a 1939 visit to Spain at the end of the Spanish Civil War; his involvement with the Democratic Party, including as a Massachusetts delegate to the 1940 Democratic National Convention; his father, Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., and his diplomatic work as U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom; his family's travels between the U.S. and England; his naval training at the Squantum Naval Air Station in Quincy, Massachusetts; and other news and current events of the time. Other Kennedy family members mentioned in clippings include Joe, Jr.’s mother, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy; his siblings, John F. Kennedy, Kathleen Kennedy, Eunice Kennedy, and Robert F. Kennedy; grandparents, John F. “Honey Fitz” Fitzgerald and Mary Josephine Hannon Fitzgerald; aunt, Margaret L. Burke; uncle, Thomas A. Fitzgerald; cousins, Marion Eunice Fitzgerald and John F. “Jack” Fitzgerald; and his sister Kathleen's future husband, William "Billy" Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington. Photographs feature Joe, Jr., attending unidentified events, with fellow trainees at the Squantum Naval Air Station, and holding a fish. An additional photograph shows an aerial view of the Kennedy family home in Palm Beach, Florida. Photographic postcards feature images of canals in Xochimilco, Mexico, and of Joe, Jr., in St. Moritz, Switzerland. Senders of typed and handwritten correspondence include British politician Arthur Greenwood; politician and Democratic National Convention Chairman, James A. Farley; journalist Arthur Krock; Executive Director of the Massachusetts Committee on Public Safety, J. W. Farley; and Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby. Printed ephemera include a dance card with a pencil attached by string; a flier advertising a debate on Lend-Lease policy; a printed menu and seating chart for a dinner attended by Chairman of the London Stock Exchange, R. B. Pearson; a ticket book for the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, in July 1940; and a printed booklet published by the Squantum Naval Air Station titled, "Flight 62 / Knocks It Off," and dated August 7, 1941. Another item of note is a paper bag printed with Spanish text; bags of this type originally contained loaves of bread and were part of a campaign by General Francisco Franco in which airplanes dropped bread over Madrid, Spain, during the Spanish Civil War. Original notations are written in blue and black ink and pencil on the rectos and/or versos of some of the clippings. This scrapbook contains 75 newspaper and magazine clippings, nine photographic prints and postcards, six pieces of correspondence, and seven other pieces of printed ephemera.
Textual folder
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.
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01758N
Kennedy family friend, Elizabeth Wayne "Betty" Coxe (standing in doorway, partially obscured), attends a party at the apartment of Kathleen Kennedy in Washington, D.C.; man wearing a fedora hat (left) and man wearing a military uniform and cap (with his back to the camera) are unidentified. [Notes: See also vintage print in album KFC-073-001. Spotting in right portion of image is original to the negative.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01754N
Kennedy family friend, George Houk Mead, Jr. (seated on the arm of a sofa, wearing a United States Marine Corps officer's blue dress A uniform), attends a party at the apartment of Kathleen Kennedy in Washington, D.C.; an unidentified woman sits on the sofa between an unidentified man (wearing a U.S. Marine Corps winter service A uniform) and another unidentified man (wearing a U.S. Navy officer's dress blue uniform). [Notes: See also vintage print in album KFC-073-001.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01753N
Kennedy family friends attend a party at the apartment of Kathleen Kennedy in Washington, D.C. Left to right: George Houk Mead, Jr. (wearing a United States Marine Corps officer's winter service A uniform); Elizabeth Wayne "Betty" Coxe; George Houk Mead, Sr.; Elsie Talbott Mead; and Charles "Chuck" Spalding. [Notes: See also vintage print in album KFC-073-001.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01752N
An unidentified man (wearing a United States Navy officer's dress blue uniform) sits on a sofa at a party at the apartment of Kathleen Kennedy in Washington, D.C. [Notes: See also vintage print in album KFC-073-001.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01749N
An unidentified man (wearing a United States Navy officer's dress blue uniform) and woman sit on a sofa at a party at the apartment of Kathleen Kennedy in Washington, D.C. [Notes: See also vintage print in album KFC-073-001.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01800N
Kennedy family friend, John "Zeke" Coleman, Jr. (left), poses with an unidentified man (wearing a United States Navy officer's dress white uniform) at a party at the apartment of Kathleen Kennedy in Washington, D.C. [Notes: See also vintage print in album KFC-073-001. Spots throughout image are original to the negative.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01799N
Kennedy family friend, Elizabeth Wayne "Betty" Coxe, converses with an unidentified man (wearing a United States Navy officer's khaki work uniform) at a party at the apartment of Kathleen Kennedy in Washington, D.C. [Notes: See also vintage print in album KFC-073-001. Spots throughout image are original to the negative.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01797N
An unidentified woman and man (wearing a United States Navy officer's dress white uniform) attend a party at the apartment of Kathleen Kennedy in Washington, D.C. [Notes: See also vintage print in album KFC-073-001. Spots throughout image are original to the negative.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01782N
Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. (wearing a United States Navy officer's dress blue uniform) sits on a sofa at a party at the apartment of his sister, Kathleen Kennedy, in Washington, D.C. [Notes: See also vintage print in album KFC-073-001. Spots throughout image are original to the negative.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01738N
Kennedy family friends, George Houk Mead, Jr. (left, wearing a United States Marine Corps officer's winter service A uniform), and John "Zeke" Coleman, Jr., sit at a dining table at a party at the apartment of Kathleen Kennedy in Washington, D.C. [Notes: See also vintage print in album KFC-073-001.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01737N
Kennedy family friend, George Houk Mead, Jr. (seated on the floor at center, wearing a United States Marine Corps officer's winter service A uniform), attends a party at the apartment of Kathleen Kennedy in Washington, D.C.; an unidentified man (wearing a U.S. Navy officer's dress blue uniform) sits in an armchair at left. [Notes: See also vintage print in album KFC-073-001.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01736N
Kennedy family friends, Mary Dickey and George Houk Mead, Jr. (wearing a United States Marine Corps officer's winter service A uniform), sit at a dining table at a party at the apartment of Kathleen Kennedy in Washington, D.C. [Notes: See also vintage print in album KFC-073-001.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01735N
Kennedy family friend, George Houk Mead, Jr. (wearing a United States Marine Corps officer's winter service A uniform), reclines in an armchair at a party at the apartment of Kathleen Kennedy in Washington, D.C.; a box of camera flash bulbs sits on the table in foreground. [Notes: See also vintage print in album KFC-073-001.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01733N
Kennedy family friends, George Houk Mead, Jr. (left, wearing a United States Marine Corps officer's winter service A uniform), and Elizabeth Wayne "Betty" Coxe, pose with an unidentified man (wearing a U.S. Navy officer's dress blue uniform) at a party at the apartment of Kathleen Kennedy in Washington, D.C. [Notes: See also vintage print in album KFC-073-001. Water damage in left portion of image is original to the negative.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01731N
An unidentified man (wearing a United States Navy commodore's jacket) sits in an armchair at a party at the apartment of Kathleen Kennedy in Washington, D.C. [Notes: See also vintage print in album KFC-073-001. Water damage at right is original to the negative.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01789N
An unidentified man (wearing a United States Navy officer's work uniform) and woman sit on a sofa at a party at the apartment of Kathleen Kennedy in Washington, D.C.; Kennedy family friend, Elizabeth Wayne "Betty" Coxe, is partially visible at left. [Notes: See also vintage print in album KFC-073-001.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01788N
Kennedy family friends sit on a sofa at a party at the apartment of Kathleen Kennedy in Washington, D.C. Left to right: Charles Alfred "Chuckie" Pillsbury (wearing a United States Navy officer's dress white uniform); unidentified; Harriet Bundy Belin; Gaspard d'Andelot "Don" Belin; unidentified. [Notes: See also vintage print in album KFC-073-001.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01787N
Kathleen Kennedy (second from left, holding a photo album) sits on a sofa with Kennedy family friends, Charles Alfred "Chuckie" Pillsbury (left, wearing a United States Navy officer's dress white uniform) and Harriet Bundy Belin, at a party at her apartment in Washington, D.C.; man at right is unidentified. [Notes: See also vintage print in album KFC-073-001.]