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Portable furniture design drawings

Description: Set of 51 pencil drawings on drafting paper of portable furniture and miscellaneous furnishings and fittings designed by Jack Heaney and Associates for the public rooms, passenger staterooms, and senior officer quarters of the NS Savannah. The drawings include front and side elevations, plan views, and design and material specifications, quantities, and placement instructions for items such as chairs, sofas, tables, beds, and dressers. The first 48 drawings, measuring 11 x 17 in., were compiled in March 1959 and the last two were added in March 1961.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1959; 1961
Call number: archHeaney
Creator: Heaney, Jack (1904-1972)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of JoAnne Heaney, 2010.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Fixed furniture design drawings

Visual Materials

Set of 42 original pencil drawings on drafting paper of fixed furniture designed by Jack Heaney and Associates for the public rooms, passenger staterooms, and senior officer quarters of the NS Savannah. The first 40 drawings, measuring 11 x 17 in., date from 1958-1959 and include front and side elevations, plan views, and design and material specifications, quantities, and placement instructions for items such as tables, banquette seating, and desks. The last two designs, for stemware, were added in August 1970.

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Subseries A. Design drawings and renderings

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This subseries contains four sets of pencil drawings on drafting paper with related specifications for furniture, furnishings, and fittings designed by Jack Heaney and Associates for the NS Savannah, as well as three color photographs of interior design renderings, a black-and-white photograph of Heaney's rendering of the ship exterior, and a rendering of elevator doors.

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Decorative table lamps design drawings

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Set of 6 original pencil drawings on drafting paper of decorative table lamp designs created by Jack Heaney and Associates for the NS Savannah. The drawings, measuring 11 x 17 in., presumably date from 1958 and include design and material specifications, quantities, and placements.

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Beauty and barber shop design drawings

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Set of 5 original pencil drawings on drafting paper of beauty and barber shop designs created by Jack Heaney and Associates for the NS Savannah. The drawings, measuring 11 x 17 in., presumably date from 1958 and include front and side elevations, plan views, and design and material specifications, quantities, and placement instructions.

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[Furniture renderings and drawings]

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This collection contains the papers of naval architect, artist, and interior designer Jack Heaney primarily related to projects Heaney worked on in the mid 20th century at the New York City marine design and naval architectural firm of George G. Sharp Inc., and later at Jack Heaney and Associates. The bulk of the collection dates from the late 1930s to the 1960s and includes both professional and project records primarily reflecting Heaney's design work for cargo-passenger vessels, and some personal documents. The professional and project records in the collection includes design renderings and drawings of ship exteriors, interiors, furniture, and fixtures; photographs primarily of ship interiors; miscellaneous ephemera, often with graphic components by Heaney; publications and clippings profiling Heaney's work; and some miscellaneous correspondence. The largest section relates to the first nuclear cargo ship, the NS Savannah. Other ships and ship lines represented include the Robin Line, Delta Line, American President Lines, Great Lakes Ore Carriers, SS Aquarama, Gulf and South American Steamship, and the Farrell Lines. While most of the collection concerns Heaney's work, the Staten Island Ferries series also includes correspondence related to JoAnne Heaney's interior design work on the project in the late 1970s. The materials also include twelve of the first issues of Harmony in G. Sharp, the George G. Sharp firm's in-house magazine dating from the mid 1940s. The personal papers include three shipbuilding books and a notebook used by Heaney as a student; six pieces of student artwork dating from 1924 to 1926; and some additional postcards and pieces of ephemera.

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Miscellaneous furniture design renderings

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Portable furniture design drawings

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