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| Calendar page 1957 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Calendar page 1957 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Calendar page, Jan and Feb 1957, Coca-Cola ad, woman with skis, "the pause that refreshes" | ||
| Calendar page 1957 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Calendar page 1957 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Calendar page, Mar and Apr 1957, Coca-Cola ad, woman with cat and ball of yarn, "just what I need" | ||
| Snowy Egret Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Snowy Egret Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Miniature adult on driftwood base stands erect, neck [?] back, head up, glass eyes, metal legs, feet, and crest feathers, painted details. Signed on lower right of base "Gilley." | ||
| Ruffed Grouse Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Ruffed Grouse Wendell Gilley Museum Description: "Made for Len and Dianne with love" inscribed on underside of base | ||
| The art of wood carving. Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Decorative Design Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Decorative Design Mount Desert Island Historical Society | ||
| Composition: The Anatomy of Picture Making Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Composition: The Anatomy of Picture Making Mount Desert Island Historical Society | ||
| Schoolboy Basketball Highlights - SWH High and Pemetic High Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Schoolboy Basketball Highlights - SWH High and Pemetic High Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Copy #2 of "Schoolboy Basketball Highlights - Southwest Harbor High and Pemetic High" by Simon Sklar. Undated, but appears to have been written in 1958. Covers period 1908-1957. | |||
| Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from C. G. Wellington Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from C. G. Wellington Wendell Gilley Museum 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. | ||
| Oblate Seminary cross College of the Atlantic |
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| Canada Geese Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Canada Geese Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Pair of Canada geese on driftwood base ; "McInnes" written on underside of base ; stamped "1950" | ||
| Ring-necked Pheasant Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Ring-necked Pheasant Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Slightly larger than miniature; male ; signed and dated "Gilley '57" on front top corner of driftwood base | ||
| Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Goodwin J. Knight Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Goodwin J. Knight Wendell Gilley Museum 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 |
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|  Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from J. Edgar Hoover Wendell Gilley Museum 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 |
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|  Letter from Frank S. Land to Wendell H. Gilley. Wendell Gilley Museum 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. | ||
| Black-capped Chickadee Pair Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Black-capped Chickadee Pair Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Two chickadees, near life size, on driftwood, both with glass eyes, metal legs and feet, carved and painted detail ; both upright, left chickadee has head down. Signed, dated on rear of base "Gilley '58". | ||
| Mallard Drake Box Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Mallard Drake Box Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Six-board pine box, lap-joined and nailed, with clear acrylic finish ; rounded-edge lift cover, carved underneath to set in box cavity. Five-inch long mallard is screw-mounted lengthwise in the center of cover ; has two curled lead-strip tail-curls, glass eyes. Marked "Made for Hilda and Hulda Bragdon" on underside of box. Signed "Made by Wendell Gilley" and dated 1950 (in a circle). | ||
| Little Blue Herons Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Little Blue Herons Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Juvenile standing with wings raised on branch, adult standing on base ; signed "Gilley" on right rear corner of base ; no date | ||
| Ralph Warren Stanley's First Lion's Head Violin Scroll Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Ralph Warren Stanley's First Lion's Head Violin Scroll Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Ralph built his first violin, the “Underwood” violin, in 1955 using a birch stair tread from the demolished Underwood cottage, “Squirrelhurst.” The tradition of Lion’s Head scrolls goes as far back as at least the 17th Century when Austrian Jakob Stainer, “one of the great violin makers of all times” made his Lion’s Head scroll violins. | ||
| Blue-winged Teal, Pair Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Blue-winged Teal, Pair Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Photograph of a pair of blue-winged teal carved by Wendell Gilley. Marked "Sec. of Treas. Robert Anderson 1958" on reverse. | |
| Cinnamon Teal, Pair Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Cinnamon Teal, Pair Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Photograph of a pair of cinnamon (?) teal carved by Wendell Gilley. Marked "Sam Rayburn" on reverse. "1958" written in blue ballpoint lower right corner. | |
| Ring-necked pheasant Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Ring-necked pheasant Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Signed "Gilley" on front right of driftwood base | ||
| Canada Goose Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Woodcock Wendell Gilley Museum |
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