SERIES XXX
1.5′ (1 oversize box)
DATES
1964-76

This series contains a collection of three dimensional memorabilia from Chafee’s time as governor and Secretary of the Navy. The collection is missing 54 plaques and 50 pictures which Chafee donated to the Curator of the Navy for inclusion in the US Navy historical collection on October 11, 1974 (Personal Correspondence, E.R. Nielson to JHC, Oct 11, 1974). This series consists of one oversize box; there is no folder title list.

1. Desk Pen Holder – Inauguration Announcement, JHC
2. Authentic Knife – Gift from R. Adm. A. Giannopoulos, Comhelnavlog
3. Silver Plates (2) – Inscription: “USS L. Mendel Rivers, SSN-686, June 26 1971, Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company”
4. Plate (Porcelain?) – “Destroyer Squadron 14”
5. Square Plates (2) with sailboat pictures
6. “Tudor Rose Dish” from Windsor, England, Inscription: “From Peter Kirk M.P. June 1971”
7. Paperweights (4) –Medallion encased in Lucite
   –Submarine encased in Lucite, Ingalls Nuclear Shipbuilding
   –Canadian Goose in Lucite
8. Miniature Flags (2 U.S. Navy flags, 2 American flags, 1 N.E. “Sagres” Flag)
9. Plaque stand – gift from Admiral K.L.Veth
10. Cannon Ball – Possibly from Revolutionary War, taken from Narragansett Bay (?)
11. Plaque – NY World’s Fair 1964-65 – Rhode Island Day May 4, 1965
12. Book Ends – Inscribed from Hydraulic Division, Brown & Sharpe MFG. Co.
13. Desk Ornament w/ Plaque – “Salute to Seabees Week”
14. Desk Ornament – Wooden Rooster
15. Plaque/Paperweight – Future Farmers of America, JHC’s name
16. Desk Ornament – “L. Gordon Cooper’s Mercury Spacecraft”
17. Brown & Sharpe Figurine
18. Ashtray – Inscribed w/ “Thurston B. Morton Testimonial Dinner”
19. Salvation Army Medallion
20. U.S. Marine Corps Paperweight, inscribed w/ JHC’s name
21. Miniature Notepad – H.F. Barrows Company
22. Calumet – Native American Pipe carved from Catlinite
23. Flags–U.S. and Rhode Island