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Title
Scrapbooks and albums: Hyannis Port, Bronxville, Palm Beach, Joseph P. Kennedy family, others (Volume II: 1933-1936)
Collection
Digital Identifier
KFC-049-002
Date(s) of Materials
1933-1936
Folder Description
This photograph album, compiled by Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, documents various moments in the lives of the Kennedy family from 1933 to 1936. Photographs capture Rose and her family at their residences in Hyannis Port in Massachusetts, Bronxville in New York, and Palm Beach in Florida; at the beach at The Breakers Hotel and at the Sea Spray Club in Palm Beach; at the Ostrich-Alligator Farm & Zoo in Lantana, Palm Beach County; and at the West Beach Club on Cape Cod. Also of note are photographs of Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter celebrations; birthday parties for Eunice Kennedy and Jean Kennedy; a Native American sun dance ceremony in Palm Beach; gymnastics exercises and boxing matches at the Sea Spray Club, in which Robert F. “Bobby/Bob” Kennedy and Edward M. “Ted” Kennedy participated; Jean dressed for her First Communion and Confirmation in Bronxville; Ted’s picnic on the lawn of the family’s home in Bronxville with a friend identified as “Rita”; a visit to a warship in Provincetown, Massachusetts; Jean dressed in a Scottish tartan and kilt; and other activities including swimming, sailing, sledding, horseback riding, football, and other sports. Other Kennedy family members and friends pictured in photographs include Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.; Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr.; John F. “Jack” Kennedy; Rosemary Kennedy (referred to as “Rose” in original captions); Kathleen “Kick” Kennedy; Patricia “Pat” Kennedy; Rose’s parents, John F. “Honey Fitz” Fitzgerald and Mary Josephine Hannon Fitzgerald; Rose’s sister, Agnes Fitzgerald Gargan, and brother-in-law, Joseph F. Gargan, Sr.; Rose’s niece, Marion Eunice Fitzgerald, and nephew, John F. “Jack” Fitzgerald (the children of her brother, Thomas A. Fitzgerald); nanny to the Kennedy children, Katherine “Kikoo” Conboy; governess to the Kennedy children, Alice Cahill; Edward E. Moore and Mary Moore; James Roosevelt, son of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Betsey Cushing Roosevelt; Jean K. Webber; Eileen Morell; Frances “Sancy” Falvey; Mary O’Keefe; Olive Cawley; Nancy Tenney; and Jack’s Choate School classmate, Thomas Morgan Schriber. Others identified in original captions include, “Francis,” “Tommy,” “Gilbert,” “Miss Hood,” “Jean’s godmother” (“Mrs. Greene”), and “Mary.” All leaves contain original handwritten captions in white ink, although the handwriting does not belong to Rose and the writer has not been determined. This photograph album contains 322 photographic prints, two photographic postcards, and one photograph fragment.
Extent / Physical Description
1 photograph album (58 pages; 16.000 x 12.500 x 2.125 inches)
Series
Series 3. Bronxville Years, 1927-1938.
Preferred Citation
Copyright John F. Kennedy Library Foundation. Kennedy Family Collection. Scrapbooks and albums: Hyannis Port, Bronxville, Palm Beach, Joseph P. Kennedy family, others (Volume II: 1933-1936). John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston
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Associated Record(s)
- Bronxville, Kathleen Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Jean Kennedy, Edward M. Kennedy, others, 1933: April
- Hyannis Port, Patricia Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Jean Kennedy, others, 1933
- Bronxville, Kathleen Kennedy, Edward M. Kennedy, November 1933
- Bronxville, Joseph P. Kennedy, Mrs. Joseph P. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Jean Kennedy, Edward M. Kennedy, 25 December 1933
- Bronxville, Eunice Kennedy, Patricia Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Jean Kennedy, Edward M. Kennedy, others, 1934: January-February
- Palm Beach, Joseph P. Kennedy, Mrs. Joseph P. Kennedy, children, James Roosevelt, Betsey Cushing Roosevelt, others, 1934
- Breakers Beach, Florida, Joseph P. Kennedy, children, 1934: March
- Palm Beach, Alligator Farm, Eunice Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Jean Kennedy, Edward M. Kennedy, others, 1934: March
- Palm Beach vicinity, Rosemary Kennedy, Kathleen Kennedy, Patricia Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Jean Kennedy, Edward M. Kennedy, others, 1934: March-April
- Palm Beach, Joseph P. Kennedy, Mrs. Joseph P. Kennedy, children, James Roosevelt, Betsey Cushing Roosevelt, Easter Sunday, 1 April 1934
- Hyannis Port, Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., John F. Kennedy, Rosemary Kennedy, Kathleen Kennedy, Eunice Kennedy, Patricia Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Jean Kennedy, Edward M. Kennedy, E.E. Moore, others, 1934: July
- Bronxville, Eunice Kennedy, Patricia Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Jean Kennedy, Edward M. Kennedy, others, Halloween, 1934: October
- Palm Beach, Joseph P. Kennedy, Mrs. Joseph P. Kennedy, children, others, 1935: January
- Palm Beach, Sea Spray Club, Edward M. Kennedy, others, 1935: January-February
- Palm Beach, Mrs. Joseph P. Kennedy, Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., Jean Kennedy, others, 1935: February
- Palm Beach, Sea Spray Club, Swimming races, Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., Eunice Kennedy, Patricia Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Edward M. Kennedy, others, 1935: February
- Palm Beach, Kennedy family, others, 1935: March
- Palm Beach, vicinity, "Indian Sun Dance," 1935: March
- Bronxville, Rosemary Kennedy, Kathleen Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Jean Kennedy, Easter, ca. 1935: April
- Bronxville, Jean Kennedy, Edward M. Kennedy, Rita, 1935: May
- Bronxville, Robert F. Kennedy, Jean Kennedy, Edward M. Kennedy, others, 1935: October
- Palm Beach and vicinity, Kennedy family, K. LeMoyne "Lem" Billings, others, 1936: March-April
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Copyright Notice
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