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Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00250N
View of spectators standing on the dock beside the United Fruit Company terminal at Long Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts, from the deck of the S.S. Metapan as it departs for the Boston Chamber of Commerce trip to Panama; streamers are visible floating in the air. [Notes: See also similar photographs in album KFC-043-001. See also ""My Trip Abroad, Rose E. Fitzgerald," 17 June 1911-18 October 1913" (ROFKPP-001-006), from the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Personal Papers. Fogging is original to the negative.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00242N
Spectators gather on the dock beside the United Fruit Company terminal at Long Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. [Notes: See also similar photographs in album KFC-043-001. See also ""My Trip Abroad, Rose E. Fitzgerald," 17 June 1911-18 October 1913" (ROFKPP-001-006), from the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Personal Papers. Negative is double exposed. The second, underlying image is of the Monitor, an escort ship for the S.S. Metapan, filled with passengers; the Metapan carried members of the Boston Chamber of Commerce on a trip to Panama.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00239N
The S.S. Metapan (visible at left) sits docked at the United Fruit Company terminal at Long Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts, before sailing to Panama for the Boston Chamber of Commerce trip; spectators view the ship from the windows of the terminal building and from atop the building. [Notes: Inscription on verso of similar vintage print in album KFC-043-001 reads, "Leaving Wharf Boston – Metapan." See also ""My Trip Abroad, Rose E. Fitzgerald," 17 June 1911-18 October 1913" (ROFKPP-001-006), from the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Personal Papers.]