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You searched for: Date: 1980sSubject: ObjectSubject: People
Title Type Subject Creator Date Place Rights
Shang : a biography of Charles E. Wheeler
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Publication, Book
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • People
  • Merkt - Dixon MacD. Merkt
  • 1984
Description:
Published: Spanish Fork, Utah : Hillcrest Publications, c1984 Inscription to the museum by the author on half title page.
Letter to Raymond L. Stearns from Wendell Gilley
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • People
  • Gilley - Wendell Holmes Gilley (1904-1983)
  • 1981-10-21
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
Written on museum letterhead, this letter describes the opening of the Wendell Gilley Museum and mentions Wendell Gilley's donation of his carvings to the museum
Bangor Daily News article, Oct. 31, 1984.
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • People
  • 1984-10-31
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
Article from the Bangor Daily News reporting on a donation of Wendell Gilley bird carvings by artist Ethel Mae James to the museum
Making a Difference, What it Takes to Make a Duck
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Publication, Periodical
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • People
  • 1986-02
  • In Copyright
Description:
Article from Audubon Adventures, volume 2, number 4 (February/March 1986). Matthew Beal and Stephen Brooks are interviewed about learning to carve at the Wendell Gilley Museum with museum artist Steven Valleau.
Addie and Wendell Gilley with Barn Owl, Shorebirds and Ducks, Opening Day
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Image, Photograph
  • Events
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • People
  • 1981-07-12
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
Addie and Wendell Gilley passing display cases at the museum's opening day.
Wendell Gilley Carving an Osprey, November 1981
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Image, Photograph
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • People
  • 1981-11-21
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
Polaroid photograph of Wendell Gilley in his workshop working on an osprey carving
Rough Draft of Article by Fred Clark for The Mallet
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Document, Manuscript
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • People
  • Clark - Fred Clark
  • 1980 c
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
The published version of this draft appeared with the title "A Visit with Wendell Gilley, A Legend in the Carving World" in the National Carver's Museum publication, The Mallet. The author indicates that in Nov. 1979 Wendell told him about the planned building of the Wendell Gilley Museum.
Letter to Wendell Gilley Museum from John A. Silver, Sept. 9, 1986
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • People
  • Silver - John A. Silver
  • 1986-09-09
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
Letter describes Mr. Silver's visit to Elmer Crowell's workshop where he purchased several miniature bird carvings, and his subsequent visit to Wendell Gilley's workshop. Enclosed are photographs of a greater yellowlegs and a duck carved by Crowell. Silver also describes Wendell Gilley's trip to Abercrombie and Fitch where he was inspired to start bird carving.
Newspaper article commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Eastern Maine Basketball Champions of 1924
Great Harbor Maritime Museum
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Object, Clothing, Uniform, Sports Uniform
  • Organizations, School Institution
  • People
  • Recreation, Sports, Basketball
  • 1984
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
The photograph is a newspaper clipping (text on reverse) from April 12, 1984 that describes 1924 championship team. The Gilman High School of Northeast Harbor basketball team and their coach Stanley Week posed outside after winning the Eastern Maine basketball tournament at the University of Maine at Orono in 1924. The players are in uniform, and Week holds the plaque they won. People Depicted: Stanley Week, Burton Seavey, Edward Ralph, Albert Manchester, Stuart Branscom, Horace Bucklin, Francis Atwood, Jerome Knowles, Merrill Whitmore and Paul Bucklin. Also mentioned in the article are Douglas Driscoll, Carl Kelley Black and white [show more]
Letter to the Wendell Gilley Museum from Sonia Cohn, Apr. 4, 1983
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • People
  • Cohn - Sonia Cohn.
  • 1983-04-04
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
The letter writer is asking for more information on Wendell Gilley after watching a Boston television program profiling him. She also mentions owning a Gilley carving of a mallard pair.
Letter from James C. Collins to The Eider
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Object, Other Object
  • People
  • Collins - James C.
  • 1983
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
Letter to the editor of the Wendell Gilley Museum's publication, The Eider, from James C. Collins after learning of Wendell Gilley's death
Raising the Flagpole With Byron Lewis Robinson Ship Model
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Object, Other Object
  • People
  • 1989-06
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
The occasion of the flag raising is described in Anne's account "Making Woods a Garden" (SWHPL 353) and in Tom Coleman's handwritten book "The House that Anne Built" (SWHPL 9979).
Gary A. Parsons Hauls One of his New Wire Lobster Traps
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Object, Fishing, Fish Trap, Lobster Trap
  • People
  • Cameron - Gary A. Cameron
  • 1985-05-27
  • Mount Desert
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
Compare this photograph to Item 6207 that shows Ralph Ober Phippen hauling lobsters in a wooden trap with a rope and pulley in 1937.