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Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Fred Clark, November 17, 1978
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Gilley - Wendell Holmes Gilley (1904-1983)
  • 1978-11-17
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
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
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Smith - Sherman Lewis Smith (1895 - 1973)
  • 1961-11-09
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
  • Document, Correspondence, Greeting Card
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Bragdon - Addie (Bragdon) Gilley (1905-1983)
  • Gilley - Wendell Holmes Gilley (1904-1983)
  • 1969
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
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
  • Document, Correspondence, Greeting Card
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Bragdon - Addie (Bragdon) Gilley (1905-1983)
  • Gilley - Wendell Holmes Gilley (1904-1983)
  • 1976
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
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
  • Document, Correspondence, Greeting Card
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Bragdon - Addie (Bragdon) Gilley (1905-1983)
  • Gilley - Wendell Holmes Gilley (1904-1983)
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
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
  • Document, Correspondence, Greeting Card
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Bragdon - Addie (Bragdon) Gilley (1905-1983)
  • Gilley - Wendell Holmes Gilley (1904-1983)
  • 1968
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
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
  • Document, Correspondence, Greeting Card
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Bragdon - Addie (Bragdon) Gilley (1905-1983)
  • Gilley - Wendell Holmes Gilley (1904-1983)
  • 1967
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
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 to Wendell H. Gilley from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr.
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • O'Brien - Donal C. O'Brien, Jr.
  • 1970-05-25
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
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
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Other
  • O'Brien - Donal C. O'Brien, Jr.
  • 1972-03-29
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
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
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Object, Other Object
  • O'Brien - Donal C. O'Brien, Jr.
  • 1970-06-10
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
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
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • O'Brien - Donal C. O'Brien, Jr.
  • 1971-05-06
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
Letter describes a carving of a blue quail and bobwhite purchased by Johnson
Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr.
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Places, Island
  • O'Brien - Donal C. O'Brien, Jr.
  • 1970-06-04
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
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
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Object, Other Object
  • O'Brien - Donal C. O'Brien, Jr.
  • 1971-08-05
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
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.
A Preliminary List of the Summer Birds of Mount Desert Island Maine
Jesup Memorial Library
  • Document, List
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Mount Desert Island
Checklist of the Birds of Acadia National Park
Jesup Memorial Library
  • Document, List
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Mount Desert Island
Letter to Wendell Gilley Museum from Isabel Thacher
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • People
  • Thacher - Isabel
  • 1991
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.
Birds - Mount Desert
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Document, Other Documents
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Samuel A. Eliot
  • 1959
Birds - Mount Desert
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
June 10-24, 1959 Notes added to the Birds of Mount Desert.
Notes Added in 1951, on 20 Years' Change
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Document, Other Documents
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Samuel A. Eliot
  • 1951
Description:
Notes added to the Birds of Northeast Harbor from 1931.
Birds of Northeast Harbor
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Document, Other Documents
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Samuel A. Eliot
  • June 1931
Birds of Northeast Harbor
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Notes of birds seen by Samuel A. Eliot Jr. in the "last fortnight of June 1931."