In the case:  

1. A handwritten manuscript of the Sand Pebbles novel:   McKenna always wrote in pencil first.  He claimed he was not adept enough at typewriting to be able to compose and type at the same time.  After he was satisfied with his hand-written story, he would then type it, or have Mrs. McKenna type it for him.

2. Typed manuscript of the novel, SAND PEBBLES.

3. Printer’s proof of SONS OF MARTHA AND OTHER STORIES.

4. Hand-written manuscript of SONS OF MARTHA.

5. Typed manuscript of the novel, SONS OF MARTHA.

6. Sample of Richard McKenna’s poetry.

7. Assorted pamphlets on situation in the Far East.

8. Printer’s proof of CASEY AGONISTES AND OTHER SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY STORIES, by Richard McKenna. 

9. Richard McKenna’s photograph album.  The album if filled with snapshots of Guam, China, and Japan, sailors and inhabitants during the 1930s.  The majority of the photographs scattered throughout this display case are computer scans of the snapshots in this album.

10. and 12.  Two “slicks” showing McKenna’s navy short stories as they appeared in magazines (SAGA and ARGOSY) in the late 1950s.  He would later expand and modify these two stories into his novel, SAND PEBBLES.

11. Four of McKenna’s pocket notebooks from his navy years.  They contain notes on the working of the different machinery found in a ship’s engine room, and the different watch stations of his engine room crew.

Several Framed Pictures hang on the wall:  Richard McKenna's life as a young sailor with his Navy crew, a young Chinese girl. His Mountain Home School graduation picture is next to this photo. 

In the corner stands a bust of a successfully published McKenna with a first edition of the writers autographed book, The  Sand Pebbles.