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You searched for: Date: 1950sSubject: Object
Title Type Subject Creator Date Place Rights
Santa Christmas Card
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence, Greeting Card
  • Object, Other Object
  • Hawthrone and Sommerfield
  • 1950
  • Cranberry Isles, Great Cranberry Island
  • No Copyright - United States
Santa Christmas Card
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
A Hawthorne and Sommerfield Christmas card that possibly dates back to the 1950s. The Inside of the card reads "Merry Christmas and A Bright and Happy New Year"
Ralph Warren Stanley's First Lion's Head Violin Scroll
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Object, Musical, Stringed Instrument, Fiddle, Violin
  • 1955
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
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
  • Image, Photograph
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Gilley - Wendell Holmes Gilley (1904-1983)
  • 1958
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
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
  • Image, Photograph
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Gilley - Wendell Holmes Gilley (1904-1983)
  • 1958
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
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
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Gilley - Wendell Holmes Gilley (1904-1983)
  • 1954
Ring-necked pheasant
Wendell Gilley Museum
Description:
Signed "Gilley" on front right of driftwood base
Canada Goose
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Gilley - Wendell Holmes Gilley (1904-1983)
  • 1959
Canada Goose
Wendell Gilley Museum
Description:
Signed "Gilley" on left front of driftwood base
Woodcock
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Gilley - Wendell Holmes Gilley (1904-1983)
  • 1956
Woodcock
Wendell Gilley Museum
Description:
Signed "Gilley" on front right of carved oblong base
Canada Goose
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Gilley - Wendell Holmes Gilley (1904-1983)
  • 1956
Canada Goose
Wendell Gilley Museum
Description:
Signed "Gilley '56" on left side of driftwood base
Canada Goose
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Gilley - Wendell Holmes Gilley (1904-1983)
  • 1956
Canada Goose
Wendell Gilley Museum
Description:
Signed "Gilley '56" on side of base
Bald Eagle with Fish
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Gilley - Wendell Holmes Gilley (1904-1983)
  • 1959
Bald Eagle with Fish
Wendell Gilley Museum
Description:
Signed "Gilley '59" on driftwood base.
Laughing Gull
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Gilley - Wendell Holmes Gilley (1904-1983)
  • 1959
Laughing Gull
Wendell Gilley Museum
Description:
Signed "Gilley, '59" on driftwood base. Hook for hanging on back.
Southwest Harbor Lobster Boat and Wharf Negative, 1954
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Negative
  • Object, Fishing, Fish Trap, Lobster Trap
  • People
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Wharf
  • Vessels, Commercial Fishing Vessel, Trapping Vessel, Lobsterboat
  • Ballard, W. H.
  • 1954
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Southwest Harbor Lobster Boat and Wharf Negative, 1954
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Lobster boat at the wharf in Southwest Harbor, ME. Black and white
Spotted sandpiper
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Gilley - Wendell Holmes Gilley (1904-1983)
  • 1950 c
Spotted sandpiper
Wendell Gilley Museum
Description:
Signed "Gilley" on bottom of driftwood base
Wendell H. Gilley holding Official Seal of the State of Maine, 1955
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Image, Photograph
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • People
  • 1955
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
Wendell Gilley holding the carving of the Maine state seal he carved for the Northeast Harbor Public Library
Dedication of the Gilman Plaque
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Document, Program
  • Events
  • Object, Sign
  • Daniel Coit Gilman
  • 1959
Dedication of the Gilman Plaque
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
April 26, 1959 Program from the dedication of the Gilman Plaque honoring Daniel Coit Gilman at the Mount Desert High School in Northeast Harbor, Maine.
Coat of Arms of State of Maine, carving
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Object, Sign
  • Wendell Gilley
  • 1955
Description:
Commissioned by Mrs. Milliken, Sr. for the old Milliken Room.
Main Street, Northeast Harbor
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Object, Ticket
  • 1951
Main Street, Northeast Harbor
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Scanned copy of a benefit ticket of Boy Scout Troop #96 for trip to Camp Roosevelt. Scanned from Facebook