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| Evening Grosbeak, Male Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Evening Grosbeak, Male Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Adult male on gnarled driftwood root; glass eyes, wire legs and cut metal feet. Signed "Gilley '78" on oblong pine base ; underside of base marked "Evening Grosbeak #33" | ||
| Pine Grosbeak, Female Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Pine Grosbeak, Female Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Signed "Gilley" on driftwood base below bird's left wing. Gilley's stamp on bottom of base | ||
| Red-breasted Merganser, Female Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Red-breasted Merganser, Female Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Has black A.E. Crowell & Son label on underside of base. Label marked "Fe. Shelldrake" | |||
| Red-breasted Merganser, Male Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Red-breasted Merganser, Male Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Has black A.E. Crowell & Son label on underside of base. Label marked "Shelldrake" | |||
| Common Eider, Male Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Common Eider, Male Wendell Gilley Museum Description: One of five eiders Wendell Gilley wanted to make for the museum at the end of his life. He was able to complete three. "Gilley" engraved on undersides of body and head. | ||
| Cormorant Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Cormorant Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Neck extended and head turned to the right. Glass eyes, metal legs and feet. Driftwood base, no visible signature or date | |||
| Blue-winged Teal Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Connect to nature, creativity at Wendell Gilley Museum[ magazine article] Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Connect to nature, creativity at Wendell Gilley Museum[ magazine article] Wendell Gilley Museum Description: From the 2018 Premier Edition of Cultural adventures : Acadia and Downeast Maine. Gives background information about Wendell Gilley and describes carving classes offered by the Wendell Gilley Museum. Features photos of a great horned owl carved by Wendell Gilley as well as sandpipers carved by students in the museum's carving classes. | |
| Good things from Maine : fine feathers[ magazine article] Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Good things from Maine : fine feathers[ magazine article] Wendell Gilley Museum Description: From the July 2021 issue of Down East Magazine. Describes the history and current day programming of the Wendell Gilley Museum. Resident artist Steve Valleau is featured. | |
| Seal Cove Auto Museum Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Seal Cove Auto Museum Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Five page typed and annotated draft of an article on the Seal Cove Auto Museum written for an unknown publication and unknown date. Previously archived as object Id 013.FIC.30.7 | |||
| Bids on Construction of New Museum Building for MDI Historical Society Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Bids on Construction of New Museum Building for MDI Historical Society Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Six sheets containing five bids by various contractors for construction of new museum building in Somesville for the MDI Historical Society. | ||
| Letters to Bidding Contractors on New Museum Building Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Letters to Bidding Contractors on New Museum Building Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Two double sided typewritten sheets containing carbon copies of letters to bidding contractors on new museum building for MDI Historical Society. Letters inform contractors that a contractor had been chosen. | ||
| Drawing of heads of 2 dogs Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Drawing of heads of 2 dogs Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Drawing of the heads of two dogs by LaRue Spiker undated Previously archived as 012.FIC.053.1, **1366 | |||
| Wood carving : with suggestions in chip carving : designed as an elementary course of instruction and to meet the requirements of technical classes in connection with the Board of Education. Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Description: By Thomas C. Simmonds with numerous illustrations by the author, published by George Allen & Unwin, 1892, reprinted 1924. | ||
| Bufflehead Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Bufflehead Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Male bufflehead in adult plumage, swimming position ; head withdrawn and turned slightly to the left ; glass eyes, matte black, white, greys with minimal body detail ; blending of red/orange on head behind white wedge. Underside signed in pyrographic scratching "W.H.G." "Gilley" branded in script. Also written in felt-tip pen " '82 Buffle-Head". | ||
| Bufflehead Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Saw-whet Owl Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Saw-whet Owl Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Saw-whet owl looking to the side, perched on driftwood branch. Underside of driftwood inscribed Saw Whet Owl by W.H. Gilley 1969. Signed "Gilley" on lower part of driftwood near owl's tail. | ||
| Saw-whet Owl Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Saw-whet Owl Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Saw-whet owl looking to the side, perched on driftwood branch attached to carved wooden base by single screw. Underside of base inscribed Saw-whet Owl 1/2 life size made for Mary Holmes 1973. Signed "Gilley" on lower part of driftwood branch. | ||
| Quail Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Quail Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Quail standing on mound shaped wooden base, one leg lifted. Very faded signature on underside of base. No date visible. | |||
| Great Blue Heron Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Great Blue Heron Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Great blue heron standing on driftwood branch. Metal legs and feet. Branch signed "Gilley '73" near feet. Underside inscribed "Gt. Blue Heron", "Addie Gilley", | ||
| Art of the decoy : American bird carvings. Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Art of the decoy : American bird carvings. Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Drawings by Lou Schifferl. Published by Bramhall House. Signed by the author. | ||
| The art of wood carving. Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Wood carving. Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Wood carving. Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Illustrated by Constance Morton. Published by Bonanza Books. | ||
| Liberty National Bank, Ellsworth, Maine Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Liberty National Bank, Ellsworth, Maine Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Watercolor sketch, Liberty National Bank, Ellsworth, Maine, 1949 | ||
| Chickadee Pair Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Chickadee Pair Wendell Gilley Museum Description: One chickadee hanging upside down near top of branch above second chickadee perched on lower part of branch. Branch attached to carved oval wooden base. Underside of base inscribed "Chickadees by Wendell Gilley S.W. Harbor, Maine. No date visible. |
