Visual Materials

Series 1. Robin Line

Description: This series contains materials dating from 1937 to 1956 related to Jack Heaney's work designing exteriors and interiors, as well as promotional illustrations, for the Robin Line consisting of original artwork and renderings, photographs of interiors, and ephemera including promotional wall-calendar designs.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1937-1956
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,

Series 2. Delta Line

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This series contains renderings and photographs reflecting Jack Heaney's design work for the Delta Line in the mid 1940s, as well as a 1946 article about the ship and two copies of a 1948 card-sized Delta Line promotional calendar.

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[Robin line desk calendars]

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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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Robin line ... magic lens tissue advertising pop-up pack

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Robin Line : fast service between United States and South and East Africa

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Series 9. Farrell Lines

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This series contains four original color renderings for interiors of the Farrell Lines Austral Class.

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First issue (unnumbered with image of Robin Sherwood on cover)

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archHeaney

Series 1. Robin Line

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