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The Somesville Parish House Fund
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Other, Churches
  • Other, History - Somesville
  • People
  • 1/12/1959
The Somesville Parish House Fund
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Letter asking for gifts and pledges to the Somesville Parish House Fund from the Finance committee and John G. Minter, minister . Robert W. Patterson, Sr. had drawn plans for the structure.
Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from C. G. Wellington
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • People
  • Wellington - C. G. (Clarence George) Wellington (1890-1960)
  • 1957-03-04
Description:
Letter typed on Kansas City Star letterhead from Executive Editor Clarence G. Wellington thanking Wendell Gilley for carved birds sent on behalf of Frank S. Land.
Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Goodwin J. Knight
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • People
  • Knight - Goodwin Knight (1896-1970)
  • 1957-04-08
Description:
Thank you letter from the Governor of California thanking Wendell Gilley for a carving of a quail, which he placed on his desk in the Governor's Mansion.
Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from J. Edgar Hoover
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • People
  • Hoover - J. Edgar Hoover (1895-1972)
  • 1957-05-01
Description:
Letter typed on FBI letterhead and signed by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover in gold ink thanking Wendell Gilley for the gift of carved bobwhites sent on behalf of Frank S. Land.
Letter from Frank S. Land to Wendell H. Gilley.
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • People
  • Land - Frank S. Land (1890-1959)
  • 1956
Description:
Letter from the founder of the Order of Demolay, Frank S. Land, instructing Wendell Gilley to choose and send carvings to Harry S. Truman, Dr. Frank Stanton, president of CBS, Leon Leonidoff, producer of Radio City Music Hall shows, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and White House aide Bernard Shanley. The cost of the five carvings was $250.
Letter from Harvard to Saltonstall re: shark
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Events
  • Nature, Animals
  • People
  • 1955
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Letter from Harvard to Saltonstall re: shark
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Letter, from Henry B. Bigelow, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard College, Cambridge MA, 6 Sep 1955, to John L. Saltonstall, identifying man-eating shark that attacked boat
Herbert E. Wilson to Governor Schricker Letter, July 27, 1950
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Events
  • Other
  • People
  • Wilson, Herbert E.
  • 1950-07-27
  • Indianapolis IN
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
Herbert E. Wilson writes to Governor Schricker regarding the discharge of LaRue Spiker and Iola Klaas from the payroll of the state of Indiana. Wilson commends that state for taking appropriate action. People Mentioned: LaRue Spiker, Maurice O. Hunt, Iola Klaas
Maurice O. Hunt to LaRue Spiker Letter and Personnel Transaction, July 11, 1950
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Events
  • Other
  • People
  • Hunt, Maurice O.
  • 1950-07-11
  • Indianapolis IN
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
Maurice O. Hunt of the Indiana State Department of Public Welfare writes to notify LaRue Spiker that she has been suspended without pay for aiding and abetting the work of the Civil Rights Congress and creating discord within the department. A Personnel Transaction form is included with the letter. People Mentioned: T. A. Gottschalk, Leo M. Kinman, Mrs. Benjamin D. Hitz, Fred Hoke, W. Edward Sweigart, Louise Griffin
Ralph E. Pumphrey to LaRue Spiker Letter, July 28, 1950
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Events
  • Other
  • People
  • Pumphrey, Ralph E.
  • 1950-07-28
  • Indianapolis IN
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Ralph E. Pumphrey to LaRue Spiker Letter, July 28, 1950
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Ralph E. Pumphrey writes regarding a letter LaRue Spiker and Iola Klaas sent to the Council of Social Agencies. Pumphrey believes Spiker ignored the established legal channels in appealing her case by distributing a public statement. People Mentioned: Iola Klaas, Harold B. Tharp, Mrs. Boyd I. Miller, Carl R. Dortch, Mrs. Marvin E. Curle, Sidney Cahn, Michael F. McCaffrey, Philip Adler Jr., Lionel F. Artis, Murray A. Auerbach, Irene C. Boughton, Volney M. Brown, Agnes Connor, Mrs. Frank H. Fairchild, Russell W. Galloway, Mrs. John K. Goodwin, Henry M. Graham, Mrs. Walter S. Greenough, Mary Houk, Robert E. Jewett, Gerald F. Kempf, Bertha Leming, Mrs. Montgomery S. Lewis, Mrs. Colby E. Moody, Mrs. John M. Moore, Joseph E. Palmer, Edwin G. Plum, James Shaw, Thomas M. Tobin [show more]
American Citizen to LaRue Spiker Letter, July 27, 1950
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Events
  • Other
  • People
  • 1950-07-27
  • Indianapolis IN
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
American Citizen to LaRue Spiker Letter, July 27, 1950
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
An unidentified American citizen criticizes a mimeographed letter sent by LaRue Spiker. The author supports Spiker's dismissal from her government job and accuses her of using communistic language.
Donald W. Brodie to LaRue Spiker Letter, July 31, 1950
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Events
  • Other
  • People
  • Brodie, Donald W.
  • 1950-07-31
  • Indianapolis IN
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Donald W. Brodie to LaRue Spiker Letter, July 31, 1950
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Donald W. Brodie dismisses the appeal of LaRue Spiker regarding her release from the State Welfare Department of Indiana. Brodie believes that Spiker's words support communism and that it is important for the United States to keep up with Russia in the development of atomic warfare. People Mentioned: Iola Klaas, Henry F. Schricker, Maurice O. Hunt
Letter to Kathryn Knowles from Belle S. Knowles
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • People
  • 1951
Description:
Letter from Belle S. Knowles to her granddaughter about Daniel Coit Gilman.
Letter Mrs. Edgar White to Corporal Edgar Bunker
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • People
  • 1951
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Letter Mrs. Edgar White to Corporal Edgar Bunker
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Letter, airmail, from Mrs. Edgar White to Corporal Edgar Bunker, stamped "return to writer" postmarked 10 Oct 1951, mentions the tractor, people having children, buying cars, hunting, and chicken business
Manset Union Church letter
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Organizations, Religious
  • People
  • 1956
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Manset Union Church letter
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Letter and envelope, handwritten, sent by Julia Parker (Manset Union Church) to Alice M. Stanley, Cranberry Isles, 25 Jun 1956, "The Manset Union Church to the Cranberry Cong. Church certifies Hope Bulger Bradford was received into Manset Church 20 May 1956"