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| Downeast Bird Carvings by Wendell Gilley exhibit opening invitation Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Downeast Bird Carvings by Wendell Gilley exhibit opening invitation Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Invitation to a black tie dinner celebrating the opening of the exhibit Downeast Bird Carvings by Wendell Gilley at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, Pa. On the back page is a handwritten note from Barbara Tyson to Wendell. | ||
| Letter to Mrs. Otis D. Wolfe from Steven C. Rockefeller Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Letter to Mrs. Otis D. Wolfe from Steven C. Rockefeller Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Letter to the donor of a bronze sculpture by Walther Matia in memory of Foster Whitlock . The letter thanks her for her donation of the sculpture to the museum and describes the dedication ceremony. | ||
| Benefit Art Auction and Appraisal Day flyer Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Benefit Art Auction and Appraisal Day flyer Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Flyer advertising the Wendell Gilley Museum Benefit Art Auction and Appraisal Day, Aug. 10, 1990. Auctioned items included a framed set of prints, "20 Birds of Mount Desert Island" by Carroll Sargent Tyson. | ||
| Wendell Gilley's Maine Master Plumber License Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Wendell Gilley's Maine Master Plumber License Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Original master plumber license issued by the State of Maine to Wendell Gilley, owner of Gilley Plumbing Company, in 1944 | |||
| Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Mr. and Mrs. Foster B. Whitlock, February 19, 1982 Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Mr. and Mrs. Foster B. Whitlock, February 19, 1982 Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Letter mentions meetings of the Mount Desert Island Bird Club and MDI Hospital Auxiliary being held at the Gilley Museum. Enclosed with the letter is a Polaroid photo of an unpainted eagle carving. Wendell also mentions working on two life-size grouse . | |
| Letter to Raymond L. Stearns from Wendell Gilley Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Letter to Raymond L. Stearns from Wendell Gilley Wendell Gilley Museum 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 | |
| Letter from Wendell Gilley to Raymond L. Stearns Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Letter from Wendell Gilley to Raymond L. Stearns Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Letter acknowledging return of a bob-white carving as well as discussion of solder and advice on where to get bass wood. Also included are sketches of the leg and foot of a Canada goose. | |
| Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Thomas C. Schuller Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Thomas C. Schuller Wendell Gilley Museum Description: This letter asks Gilley to repair one of a pair of herons that was damaged in a move. | |
| Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Mr. and Mrs. Foster B. Whitlock, March 17, 1982 Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Mr. and Mrs. Foster B. Whitlock, March 17, 1982 Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Letter mentions receiving a bird book from the Whitlocks. It also talks about working on carvings of an eagle with a fish and a ruffed grouse with spread tail and another taking off in flight. Enclosed with the letter are drawings of male and female swimming buffleheads. | |
| Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Capt. Benjamin H. Rigg, Oct. 26, 1964 Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Capt. Benjamin H. Rigg, Oct. 26, 1964 Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Letter accompanied by a cardboard pattern of a spread tail grouse and a photograph of a belt grinder | |
| 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. | ||
| Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Lemuel T. Ward, Nov. 8, 1965 Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Lemuel T. Ward, Nov. 8, 1965 Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Lemuel T. Ward, the noted decoy carver, wrote this letter to Wendell Gilley after meeting him at an unnamed carving show | ||
| 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 to Steven C. Rockefeller from Nina Z. Gormley, March 16, 1990 Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Letter to Steven C. Rockefeller from Nina Z. Gormley, March 16, 1990 Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Letter regarding the possible exhibition of a Gilley piece in the Spirits and Nature Exhibition organized by Steven Rockefeller and held at Middlebury College. The piece was a carved and painted group of eiders made in 1970. Color slide transparency enclosed with letter | ||
| Letter to Fred Clark from Nina Gormley, February 22, 1992 Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Letter to Fred Clark from Nina Gormley, February 22, 1992 Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Letter thanking Fred Clark, President of Warren Tool Co., for promoting the Gilley Museum in its catalog. The letter also describes winter events at the museum as well as the museum's collection of taxidermy. | ||
| University of Maine at Orono Distinguished Achievement Award to Wendell H. Gilley Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  University of Maine at Orono Distinguished Achievement Award to Wendell H. Gilley Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Distinguished achievement award recognizing Wendell Gilley's accomplishments presented posthumously at University of Maine at Orono commencement exercises on May 14, 1983. | |||
| University of Maine at Orono Distinguished Achievement Award Citation Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  University of Maine at Orono Distinguished Achievement Award Citation Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Citation honoring Wendell Gilley read at University of Maine, Orono Commencement May 14, 1983 | |||
| University of Maine at Orono Class of 1925 Golden Anniversary Certificate Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  University of Maine at Orono Class of 1925 Golden Anniversary Certificate Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Certificate marking Wendell Gilley's fifty years as an alumnus of the University of Maine | |||
| 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. | ||
| Eagles Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Eagles Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Typescript draft of a section included in The Art of Bird Carving by Wendell Gilley describing his techniques for carving eagles. | |||
| Letter from Robert M. Peck to Wendell Gilley, March 1, 1977 Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Letter from Robert M. Peck to Wendell Gilley, March 1, 1977 Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Letter congratulating Gilley on the success of the exhibition Downeast Bird Carvings of Wendell Gilley at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. On exhibit were sixty-one carvings of birds "on display together for the first time." 34, 272 people attended the exhibit during its ten week run from October 29, 1976 to January 7, 1977. | |
| Letter to Wendell Gilley from Barbara Tyson Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Letter to Wendell Gilley from Barbara Tyson Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Letter thanking Wendell Gilley for the loan of his carvings for the exhibit Downeast Bird Carvings by Wendell Gilley held at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Oct. 29, 1976 through Jan. 7, 1977 | |
| Rough Draft of Article by Fred Clark for The Mallet Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Rough Draft of Article by Fred Clark for The Mallet Wendell Gilley Museum 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 Nina Gormley from Gertrude Bancroft Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Letter to Nina Gormley from Gertrude Bancroft Wendell Gilley Museum Description: This letter is a reply to the Gilley Museum Director's request for a garden to be donated by the Garden Club of Mount Desert. It also mentions a carving of three gulls on a driftwood based that Mrs. Bancroft commissioned from Wendell Gilley. |