| Scope and content |
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 and include 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. |
| Access restriction | No access restrictions. |
| Cite as |
Sheldon H. Kinney Papers (#554), East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA. |
| Terms of use | Literary rights to specific documents are retained by the authors or their descendants in accordance with U.S. copyright law. |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner- Gift of RADM Sheldon H. Kinney, USN (Ret). |
| Biographical note | Sheldon Hoard Kinney (1918-2004) was an officer in the United States Navy and commanded ships during World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. He later served as Commandant of Midshipmen at the Naval Academy, president of the State University of New York Maritime College, and helped found the World Maritime University of the International Maritime Organization of the United Nations at Malmo, Sweden. |
