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Senator John F. Kennedy, Foster Furcolo Parade, East Boston, 1956

Collection Type

  • Photography

Date

1956

GUSN

GUSN-188062

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Description

In East Boston, Massachusetts, Senator John F. Kennedy rides in an open motorcade with John Foster Furcolo, who was the Democratic candidiate for governor of Massachusetts. Furcolo won the election and served from 1957 to 1961.

Details

Descriptive Terms

campaigning
elections
governors
senators
parades
government
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs

Physical Description

1 photograph

Collection Code

PC044

Collection Name

Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

Reference Code

PC044.TMP.010

Places

East Boston (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts) [neighborhood]

Record Details

Originator

Reed, Verner, 1923-2006 (Photographer)

Material Type

black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs

Other People

Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
Furcolo, Foster, 1911-1995

Accruals Note

Included in the exhibition, A Changing World: New England in the Photographs of Verner Reed, 1950-1972.

Description Level

Item

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