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| Red-breasted Merganser, Male Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Red-breasted Merganser, Male Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Miniature; "swimming" duck, head turned forward and to right; glass eyes, adult plumage, painted detail. Signed "Gilley" and marked "Addie Gilley, Red-breasted Merganser (male)" on underside of base. | ||
| Black Duck Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Black Duck Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Miniature adult ; mounted on drift wood base; painted plumage, glass eyes, carved feet. Signed "Gilley" below right foot; stamped "Wendell H. Gilley" on underside, marked "Addie Gilley." | ||
| Ruffed Grouse, Male Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Ruffed Grouse, Male Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Miniature; mounted on natural wooden base, upright posture, tail fanned open horizontally; glass eyes, carved feet, highly detailed painted plumage. Signed "Gilley" on right rear of base, Underside of base marked: "Addie Gilley, Ruffed Grouse by W.H. Gilley, 1966." | ||
| Blue-winged Teal Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Common Loon Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Common Loon Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Mounted on driftwood base; standing, wings down, head lowered and cocked to right in "quizzical" expression; glass eyes, metal feet, painted and carved detail. Signed on base "Gillley". Underside of base marked: "This is one of a limited edition of only two of this model made, W.G. Common "Loon" by W.H. Gilley, 1973, property of Addie Gilley." | ||
| Canada Goose Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Canada Goose Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Miniature; 3-D feet, mounted on round, smooth wooden base, erect posture, faces forward; pinhead eyes, painted detail. Underside signed, dated, marked: "Gilley, '59. Addie Gilley." | ||
| Connect to nature, creativity at Wendell Gilley Museum[ magazine article] Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Connect to nature, creativity at Wendell Gilley Museum[ magazine article] Wendell Gilley Museum Description: From the 2018 Premier Edition of Cultural adventures : Acadia and Downeast Maine. Gives background information about Wendell Gilley and describes carving classes offered by the Wendell Gilley Museum. Features photos of a great horned owl carved by Wendell Gilley as well as sandpipers carved by students in the museum's carving classes. | |
| Good things from Maine : fine feathers[ magazine article] Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Good things from Maine : fine feathers[ magazine article] Wendell Gilley Museum Description: From the July 2021 issue of Down East Magazine. Describes the history and current day programming of the Wendell Gilley Museum. Resident artist Steve Valleau is featured. | |
| Pulling Natures Linchpin: College of the Atlantic |
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|  Pulling Natures Linchpin: College of the Atlantic Description: A Study of Potential Correlations between Declining bat Populations and Modern Mosquito-born Epidemics | |
| Drawing of heads of 2 dogs Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Drawing of heads of 2 dogs Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Drawing of the heads of two dogs by LaRue Spiker undated Previously archived as 012.FIC.053.1, **1366 | |||
| Bird-life : a guide to the study of our common birds Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Bird-life : a guide to the study of our common birds Wendell Gilley Museum Description: By Frank M. Chapman with seventy-five full-page colored plates after drawings by Ernest Thompson Seton. Published by D. Appleton. | ||
| Handbook of birds of eastern North America : with introductory chapters on the study of birds in nature Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Handbook of birds of eastern North America : with introductory chapters on the study of birds in nature Wendell Gilley Museum Description: By Frank M. Chapman, with full-page plates in colors and black and white by Louis Agassiz Fuertes. Revised edition. Published by D. Appleton and Co. Maps on end papers. | ||
| Audubon water bird guide : water, game and large land birds : eastern and central North America from southern Texas to central Greenland Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Audubon water bird guide : water, game and large land birds : eastern and central North America from southern Texas to central Greenland Wendell Gilley Museum Description: By Richard H. Pough, color illustrations by Don Eckelberry, line drawings by Earl L. Poole. Maps on end papers. Sponsored by the National Audubon Society. Published by Doubleday & Co. First edition. | ||
| Menaboni's birds Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Menaboni's birds Wendell Gilley Museum Description: By Athos and Sara Menaboni, published by Rinehart & Co. | ||
| Waterfowl of North America Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Waterfowl of North America Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Number 102 of 1000 book edition. Contains 42 plates. Published by Frame House Printing. Also included with this book dontion are seven holiday cards created by Zimmerman and sent by him to the donor's parents. | ||
| Bufflehead Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Bufflehead Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Male bufflehead in adult plumage, swimming position ; head withdrawn and turned slightly to the left ; glass eyes, matte black, white, greys with minimal body detail ; blending of red/orange on head behind white wedge. Underside signed in pyrographic scratching "W.H.G." "Gilley" branded in script. Also written in felt-tip pen " '82 Buffle-Head". | ||
| Bufflehead Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Saw-whet Owl Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Saw-whet Owl Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Saw-whet owl looking to the side, perched on driftwood branch. Underside of driftwood inscribed Saw Whet Owl by W.H. Gilley 1969. Signed "Gilley" on lower part of driftwood near owl's tail. | ||
| Saw-whet Owl Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Saw-whet Owl Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Saw-whet owl looking to the side, perched on driftwood branch attached to carved wooden base by single screw. Underside of base inscribed Saw-whet Owl 1/2 life size made for Mary Holmes 1973. Signed "Gilley" on lower part of driftwood branch. | ||
| Quail Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Quail Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Quail standing on mound shaped wooden base, one leg lifted. Very faded signature on underside of base. No date visible. | |||
| Great Blue Heron Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Great Blue Heron Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Great blue heron standing on driftwood branch. Metal legs and feet. Branch signed "Gilley '73" near feet. Underside inscribed "Gt. Blue Heron", "Addie Gilley", | ||
| Certificate to Neal L. Murphy From Louise M. Heath Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Certificate to Neal L. Murphy From Louise M. Heath Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: The unusual image on this certificate from the South Seal Cove School depicts a little girl lighting a flame under two kittens in a chaffing dish. The original notes on this item say: - Schools - Tremont - Seal Cove - South Seal Cove School - Certificate to Neal L. Murphy From Louise M. Heath. - Neal L. Murphy (1898-) son of John T. and Viola A. (Marshall) Murphy - Louise M. Heath (1872-1958), daughter of William Webster Allen and Alvena D. (McKenzie) Heath [show more] | |||
| Portraits of New England birds. Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Portraits of New England birds. Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Drawn in color by Louis Agassiz Fuertes and Allan Brooks for "Birds of Massachusetts and other New England states" by Edward Howe Forbush. Published by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. | ||
| Birds of America. Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Birds of America. Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Editor-in-Chief, T. Gilbert Pearson, consulting editor, John Burroughs. Published by The University Society, Inc. Nature Lovers Library, volume 3. | ||
| The warblers of America : a popular account of the wood warblers as they occur in the Western Hemisphere. Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| The warblers of America : a popular account of the wood warblers as they occur in the Western Hemisphere. Wendell Gilley Museum Description: By Ludlow Griscom, Alexander Sprunt, Jr. and other ornithologists of note. Illustrated by John Henry Dick. Published by The Devin-Adair Co. |
