Autographed photographs of Naval officers and prints from the U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings Cover Piuctures Series
Sheldon Hoard Kinney was born in Pasadena, California, on 27 August 1918. He enlisted in the United States Navy in 1935, and then attended the United States Naval Academy, graduating with a bachelor's in marine engineering as part of the class of 1941. He then served on and commanded several ships during World War II, becoming the youngest commanding officer of a destroyer-type ship. For his service, he received the Navy Cross and the Legion of Merit, while his ship, USS Bronstein, received a Presidential Unit Citation. Kinney later commanded ships during the Korean War and the Vietnam War, and served as Commandant of Midshipmen at the Naval Academy. He retired from the Navy in 1972. He went on to be president of the State University of New York Maritime College, and later helped found the World Maritime University of the International Maritime Organization of the United Nations at Malmo, Sweden. Kinney passed away on 11 December 2004.
The collection contains ten photographs of United States Navy officers and a caricature of Rear Admiral Sheldon Kinney. The majority of the photographs are official U.S. Navy photographs of high ranking officers that personally autographed the photo to Kinney. These include photos of Joseph H. Wellings, Charles S. Minter Jr., Arleigh A. Burke, Jerauld Wright, W. G. Cooper, Harold Page Smith, Walter F. Boone, and Robert B. Carney. The remaining two photographs show Kinney with various Navy colleagues seated around a conference table, presumably at the United States Naval Academy, where all of the pictured men served during the 1960s. Their signatures are above their photos.
The collections also consists of 24 images from U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings Cover Piuctures Series for 1957 and 1958. The 1957 series consists of 12 images and does not contain an identification of the images. The 1958 series also consists of 12 images and include the following:
-Forrest Sherman-Class Destroyer -Halibut Firing Regulus II -USS Eldorado Off Point Barrow Radar Station -The USS Hornet and HMS Penguin, 1815 -The Suffolk County (LST-1173) -The Burning of the English Fleet of Chatham -The USS Ranger off Guantanamo -Ship of the Line, Franklin, 74 guns -The Mississinewa Refules the Saratoga -The American Fleet in the Straits of Magellan -The Canadian Icebreaker, Labrador -Crusader Ship
Gift of RADM Sheldon H. Kinney, USN (Ret)
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