Kennedy Library Archives - Kennedy Family Collection Now Digitized

In May 2025 the JFK Library announced that every photograph, scrapbook, and album in the Kennedy Family Collection — about 6,000 items spanning roughly 1878-1980, donated by Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy — has been fully digitized and is now online.

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AI review of the JFK Library Archives blog post 'Kennedy Family Collection Now Digitized' (May 29, 2025, by digitization archivist Laura Kintz), read in full: - All photographs, scrapbooks, and albums in the Kennedy Family Collection are now digitized and accessible through the Library's digital archives; the project began in 2017 with at-risk nitrate negatives. - Funded by the JFK Library Foundation and a Save America's Treasures grant; the bulk was digitized off-site at the Northeast Document Conservation Center in Andover, Massachusetts. - The collection, donated by Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, holds ~6,000 items documenting the Kennedy and Fitzgerald families from about 1878 through 1980 — personal and media photos, diaries, guest logs, a yearbook, newspaper clippings, and handwritten notations by family members, friends, and associates. - By the numbers: ~6,000 photographic prints/negatives/transparencies (1,700 nitrate negatives), 8,600+ scanned images including fronts and backs of prints, 52 bound volumes, and ~8,000 scanned pages. - Archivists cataloged every item using photo/newspaper databases, Ancestry.com, and the Library's own collections; unidentified photos (e.g. 'Unidentified Baby with Dog') were described as seen. - Record summary was a placeholder ('Awaiting editorial review'); this is the editorial summary written from the primary source.