Visual Materials

Subseries A. Design renderings

Description: This subseries contains two original color renderings and two black-and-white mounted photographs of Robin Line ship exteriors executed by Jack Heaney between 1937 and 1939.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1937-1939
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.
Associated people: Georges, Alexandre,; Heaney, JoAnne.
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Subseries A. Design renderings

Visual Materials

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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Subseries A. Design drawings and renderings

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Subseries A. Design renderings

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This subseries consists primarily of photographic reproductions of artistic renderings by Jack Heaney of the exterior profiles of ships, dating from the late 1930s and including work done by both George G. Sharp Inc. and Jack Heaney and Associates. The subseries also includes an original painting of a World War II escort carrier; two photographic reproductions of amphibious lighters dated 1971-1972; a 1965 newspaper clipping showing a proposed container ship, and a color reproduction of a rendering of the Milwaukee Clipper.

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Subseries A. Design specifications, drawings, and renderings

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Subseries A. Design Renderings

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This subseries contains black-and-white photographic reproductions of renderings related to the Delta Line and consists of three ship exteriors on board, and three 8 x 10 in. photographs of a stateroom on the SS Del Norte and lighting fixture designs.

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Subseries A. Design drawings and renderings

Visual Materials

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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Subseries A. Design renderings

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