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Photograph folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-012-024
Contains 37 photographic prints and two duplicate prints: (KFC1676N, KFC1677N, KFC1678N, KFC1679N, KFC1681N, KFC1683N, KFC1684N (2 copies), KFC1685N, KFC1686N, KFC1688N, KFC1691N, KFC1702N, KFC1703N, KFC1689N, KFC1690N, KFC4152P, KFC6124P, KFC4150P, KFC4355P, KFC1708N, KFC1709N, KFC1707N, KFC1711N, KFC2015N, KFC1700N, KFC2016N, KFC1705N, KFC1699N, KFC1701N, KFC1706N, KFC1710N, KFC-C2642P (2 copies), KFC-C4357P, KFC-C4358P, KFC-C4359P, KFC-C4360P, KFC-C4361P)
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-01706N
Kathleen Kennedy (seated in sand) plays with family friends, George Houk Mead, Jr., Charles "Chuck" Spalding, and John "Zeke" Coleman, Jr. (partially visible), on a beach in Chatham, Massachusetts. [Notes: Original caption from vintage print in album KFC-073-001 reads, "Chatham, Sept. '41, George, Chuck, Zeke, Kick."]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01705N
Kennedy family friend, George Houk Mead, Jr., stands on a beach in Chatham, Massachusetts. [Notes: See also vintage print in album KFC-073-001. Streaking is original to the negative.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01701N
Kennedy family friends, George Houk Mead, Jr., John "Zeke" Coleman, Jr., and Elizabeth Wayne "Betty" Coxe, play in the sand on a beach in Chatham, Massachusetts. [Notes: Original caption from vintage print in album KFC-073-001 reads, "Chatham, Sept. '41, George, Zeke, Betty."]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01700N
Kennedy family friends play on a beach in Chatham Massachusetts; George Houk Mead, Jr. (holding an unidentified object), dives over Charles "Chuck" Spalding (left) and John "Zeke" Coleman, Jr. [Notes: Original caption from vintage print in album KFC-073-001 reads, "Chatham, Sept. '41, Touchdown!"]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01699N
Kathleen Kennedy poses with family friends on a beach in Chatham, Massachusetts. Left to right (in line, standing with hands on knees): George Houk Mead, Jr., Charles "Chuck" Spalding, John "Zeke" Coleman, Jr., Kathleen Kennedy. [Notes: Original caption from vintage print in album KFC-073-001 reads, "Chatham, Sept. '41, Four Horsemen, George, Chuck Spalding, Zeke, Kick."]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-02016N
Kennedy family friends, George Houk Mead, Jr., John "Zeke" Coleman, Jr., and Charles "Chuck" Spalding, play on a beach in Chatham, Massachusetts. [Notes: Original caption from vintage print in album KFC-073-001 reads, "Chatham, Sept. '41, George, Zeke, Chuck."]