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| 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 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 | |
| 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. | |||
| Guestbooks Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Guestbooks Wendell Gilley Museum Description: 3 Guestbooks containing signatures of Wendell Gilley's visitors from March 1944 - Nov. 1951, July 24, 1971 - July 9, 1974, and July 12, 1974 - June 13, 1977. 1 notebook listing names of visitors to his workshop between May 1970 and July 24, 1971 | |||
| Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Fred Clark, November 6, 1978 Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Fred Clark, November 6, 1978 Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Letter to the President of Warren Tool Co., Fred Clark, containing Wendell Gilley's pencil illustrations of carving knives and blades | |
| Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Fred Clark, December 2, 1979 Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Fred Clark, December 2, 1979 Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Letter to the President of Warren Tool Co., Fred Clark, discussing carving knives and blades | |
| Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Fred Clark, November 17, 1978 Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Fred Clark, November 17, 1978 Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Letter to the President of Warren Tool Co., Fred Clark, concerning wood carving tools and ways of holding tools on a work bench. Also mentioned is a grouse carving loaned to Harry Meech, one of the founders of the National Carvers Museum. | |
| Christmas Card from Addie and Wendell Gilley, 1969 Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Christmas Card from Addie and Wendell Gilley, 1969 Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Christmas card featuring a carving of a family of bald eagles, the female perched on the edge of the nest of two chicks, the male on a branch above with wings spread. Marked 1969 on reverse of card | |
| Christmas Card from Addie and Wendell Gilley, 1976 Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Christmas Card from Addie and Wendell Gilley, 1976 Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Christmas card featuring a carved barn owl on a piece of driftwood. Signed "Addie & Wendell Gilley." Marked "Xmas 1976" on reverse side of card | |
| Christmas Card from Addie and Wendell Gilley Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Christmas Card from Addie and Wendell Gilley Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Christmas card featuring a pair of carved wood ducks on a piece of driftwood. No date. Signed "Addie & Wendell Gilley" | ||
| Christmas Card from Addie and Wendell Gilley, 1968 Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Christmas Card from Addie and Wendell Gilley, 1968 Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Christmas card featuring a carved saw-whet owl. Signed "Wendell & Addie Gilley" below image. Marked 1968 on reverse side of card. | |
| Christmas Card from Addie and Wendell Gilley, 1967 Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Christmas Card from Addie and Wendell Gilley, 1967 Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Christmas card featuring a carved saw-whet owl surrounded by snow covered greenery. Signed "Sincerely, Wendell & Addie Gilley" and dated 1967 on reverse side of card | |
| Desk calendar Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| Desk calendar Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Printed date on calendar is 1955 but it appears the Gilleys reused calendar pages to record events in subsequent years. | |||
| Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Donal C. O'Brien, Jr., May 9, 1980 Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Donal C. O'Brien, Jr., May 9, 1980 Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Discusses carvings to be included in the museum collection. | |
| Letter to Byron Cheever from Wendell H. Gilley, April 29, 1971 Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Letter to Byron Cheever from Wendell H. Gilley, April 29, 1971 Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Wendell suggests carvings he had on hand that could be photographed to illustrate his book. Birds he suggests are: bob white quail, scaled quail, flock of 7 Canada geese, pair of Wilson snipe, pair of grouse, single woodcock, several miniature birds of all types, great blue heron with trout in mouth, group of three pintails, life size eagle, pair of life size wood duck, spotted sandpiper on mussel shell, life size pileated woodpecker, pair of eagles with two babies in nest. [show more] |