1 - 7 of 7 results
You searched for: Date: 1950sSubject: ObjectSubject: People
Refine Your Search
Refine Your Search
Title Type Subject Creator Date Place Rights
At the museum
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Object, Art
  • People
  • LaRue Spiker
  • c 1950s
  • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
At the museum
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
People looking at artwork in a museum. Two copies, one 8x10, one 3x5
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.
Southwest Harbor Lobster Boat and Wharf Negative, 1954
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Negative
  • Object, Fishing, Fish Trap, Lobster Trap
  • People
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Wharf
  • Vessels, Commercial Fishing Vessel, Trapping Vessel, Lobsterboat
  • Ballard, W. H.
  • 1954
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Southwest Harbor Lobster Boat and Wharf Negative, 1954
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Lobster boat at the wharf in Southwest Harbor, ME. Black and white
Wendell H. Gilley holding Official Seal of the State of Maine, 1955
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Image, Photograph
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • People
  • 1955
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
Wendell Gilley holding the carving of the Maine state seal he carved for the Northeast Harbor Public Library