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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.
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-00998N
Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. (middle), and his daughters, Patricia Kennedy (left) and Eunice Kennedy, pose on horseback in front of a building near London, England. [Notes: Negative is double exposed.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-02739N
United States Ambassador to Great Britain, Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. (seated center), dines with his sons, Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. (left), and Edward M. Kennedy (partially obscured by serving tray), in the dining room at the U.S. Embassy residence in London, England; several unidentified household staff are also visible.
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-02742N
United States Ambassador to Great Britain, Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. (right, wearing tuxedo and top hat), converses with an unidentified driver in the residence of the U.S. Ambassador, in London, England, on the occasion of a State banquet honoring King Carol II of Romania.
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-02740N
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (left, wearing a white satin evening gown, diamond tiara, and fur coat) receives assistance from an unidentified woman in the residence of the United States Ambassador to Great Britain, in London, England, on the occasion of a State banquet honoring King Carol II of Romania; U.S. Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. (right, wearing tuxedo and top hat), and an unidentified staff member are visible in background.
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-02746N
Portrait of United States Ambassador to Great Britain Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., at the Embassy residence in London, England.
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-02747N
Portrait of United States Ambassador to Great Britain Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., at the Embassy residence in London, England.
Collection
JPKPP
Papers, 1888-1974. Father of President John F. Kennedy, banker, financier, diplomat. Chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission (1934-1935); Chairman, U. S. Maritime Commission (1937-1938); Ambassador to Great Britain (1938-1940). Personal, family, business, and diplomatic papers.
Collection
JWDSPP
Papers, 1919-1972 [Bulk 1938-1940]. Secretary and press attaché to Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, 1938-1940. Correspondence, copies of Kennedy’s speeches, newspaper clippings, press releases and radio messages, pamphlets, luncheon/dinner invitations, and other items.