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Nelson, A.L. to Spiker, LaRue Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Nelson, A.L. to Spiker, LaRue Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Letter to LaRue Spiker from A.L. Nelson, director of the Patuxent Wildlife Refuge in reference to Spiker’s article on the Refuge. | |||
Dale, Fred H. to Spiker, LaRue Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Dale, Fred H. to Spiker, LaRue Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Letter to LaRue Spiker from Fred H. Dale in reference to his approval of her article on Patuxent Wildlife Reefuge. With Spiker’s letter to Dr. John L. Buckley in refernece to article on Patuxent Wildlife Refuge. | |||
Letter from Wendell Gilley to Raymond L. Stearns Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Letter from Wendell Gilley to Raymond L. Stearns Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Letter acknowledging return of a bob-white carving as well as discussion of solder and advice on where to get bass wood. Also included are sketches of the leg and foot of a Canada goose. | |
Letter to Fred Clark from Nina Gormley, February 22, 1992 Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Letter to Fred Clark from Nina Gormley, February 22, 1992 Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Letter thanking Fred Clark, President of Warren Tool Co., for promoting the Gilley Museum in its catalog. The letter also describes winter events at the museum as well as the museum's collection of taxidermy. | ||
Letter to Nina Gormley from Norman Ashley Willock Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Letter to Nina Gormley from Norman Ashley Willock Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Letter concerning the packing and shipping of a pintail duck carving commissioned from Wendell Gilley by Norman Willock and returned to the museum for repair. | |
Letter from Jack Ekstrom to Fred Clark, 1993 Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Letter from Jack Ekstrom to Fred Clark, 1993 Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Letter to the president of Warren Tool Co. from artist Ekstrom about an article and artwork of Wendell Gilley's chickadee for Popular Woodworking. Ekstrom describes how he had to carve the chickadee himself before he could finish the article. | |
Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Fred Clark, November 6, 1978 Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Fred Clark, November 6, 1978 Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Letter to the President of Warren Tool Co., Fred Clark, containing Wendell Gilley's pencil illustrations of carving knives and blades | |
Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Fred Clark, November 17, 1978 Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Fred Clark, November 17, 1978 Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Letter to the President of Warren Tool Co., Fred Clark, concerning wood carving tools and ways of holding tools on a work bench. Also mentioned is a grouse carving loaned to Harry Meech, one of the founders of the National Carvers Museum. | |
Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Sherman L. Smith, November 9, 1961 Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Sherman L. Smith, November 9, 1961 Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Letter accompanying a photograph of the Bostitch Company lobby where Wendell Gilley's carving of terns were on display | ||
Christmas Card from Addie and Wendell Gilley, 1969 Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Christmas Card from Addie and Wendell Gilley, 1969 Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Christmas card featuring a carving of a family of bald eagles, the female perched on the edge of the nest of two chicks, the male on a branch above with wings spread. Marked 1969 on reverse of card | |
Christmas Card from Addie and Wendell Gilley, 1976 Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Christmas Card from Addie and Wendell Gilley, 1976 Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Christmas card featuring a carved barn owl on a piece of driftwood. Signed "Addie & Wendell Gilley." Marked "Xmas 1976" on reverse side of card | |
Christmas Card from Addie and Wendell Gilley Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Christmas Card from Addie and Wendell Gilley Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Christmas card featuring a pair of carved wood ducks on a piece of driftwood. No date. Signed "Addie & Wendell Gilley" | ||
Christmas Card from Addie and Wendell Gilley, 1968 Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Christmas Card from Addie and Wendell Gilley, 1968 Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Christmas card featuring a carved saw-whet owl. Signed "Wendell & Addie Gilley" below image. Marked 1968 on reverse side of card. | |
Christmas Card from Addie and Wendell Gilley, 1967 Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Christmas Card from Addie and Wendell Gilley, 1967 Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Christmas card featuring a carved saw-whet owl surrounded by snow covered greenery. Signed "Sincerely, Wendell & Addie Gilley" and dated 1967 on reverse side of card | |
Letter from Harvard to Saltonstall re: shark Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| 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, 1 Sep 1955, to John L. Saltonstall, asking for sample teeth from shark that attacked boat (see items 400-406) | ||
Letter from Harvard to Saltonstall re: shark Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| 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 | ||
Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr. Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr. Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Thank you letter for a gift of a carved pair of ruffed grouse | |
Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr. Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr. Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Letter discusses publishing Gilley's book in a limited edition as well as including a photograph of Gilley with an osprey as an insert. It also mentions a carving of an owl and another of a bobwhite quail on a hatchet. | |
Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr. Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr. Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Letter describing the making of 36 duck decoys.. O'brien also mentions picking up a finished woodcock from Gilley. | |
Letter from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr. to Belton Kleberg (B. K.) Johnson, May 6, 1971 Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Letter from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr. to Belton Kleberg (B. K.) Johnson, May 6, 1971 Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Letter describes a carving of a blue quail and bobwhite purchased by Johnson | |
James Parker to Letitia A. Parker Letter and Envelope, September 27, 1863 Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| James Parker to Letitia A. Parker Letter and Envelope, September 27, 1863 Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: James Parker writes to his sister, Letita A. Parker, from Fort Sumner about the pleasure of receiving letters, the cold weather, a trip he took into the country and some dogs he saw there, and learning to play chess. The original postmarked envelope is included as well. |
Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr. Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr. Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Letter describing O'Brien's sailing trip around Buckle Island, Swans Island and others and the eiders and ospreys he saw. This letter also mentions Gilley's idea for a museum. | |
Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr. Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr. Wendell Gilley Museum Description: O'Brien acknowledges receipt of a spotted sandpiper carving from Gilley and discusses a handle Gillely designed for an X-Acto blade as well as decoy designs. | |
Letter to Wendell Gilley Museum from Isabel Thacher Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Letter to Wendell Gilley Museum from Isabel Thacher Wendell Gilley Museum Description: This letter describes three birds (a bobwhite, a yellowlegs, and a gull) carved by Wendell Gilley and owned by the letter writer, Isabel Thacher. |