HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE

The David Hume Kennerly collection of photography, historic artifacts, letters and objects might be one of the largest and most historically significant private collections ever produced and collected by a single individual. Its 50-year span of images and objects tells the complete story of the baby boom generation. Like the Zapruder film of JFK’s assassination or Woodward and Bernstein’s Watergate papers, many of the objects and images in Kennerly’s collection constitute the only primary source record in existence of historic events.