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You searched for: Date: 1950sSubject: Object
Title Type Subject Creator Date Place Rights
Calendar page 1957
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Advertising, Advertisement
  • Object, Other Object
  • 1957
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
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
  • Document, Advertising, Advertisement
  • Object, Other Object
  • 1957
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
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
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Gilley - Wendell Holmes Gilley (1904-1983)
  • 1950 c
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
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Gilley - Wendell Holmes Gilley (1904-1983)
  • 1950
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
  • Publication, Book
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Upton - John Upton (1897-)
  • 1958
The art of wood carving.
Wendell Gilley Museum
Description:
Published by D. Van Nostrand Co., Inc.
Water fountain in Philadelphia
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Object, Art
  • LaRue Spiker
  • c 1950s
  • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Water fountain in Philadelphia
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Statue and water fountain.
Water fountain in Philadelphia
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Object, Art
  • LaRue Spiker
  • c 1950s
  • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Water fountain in Philadelphia
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Statue and water fountain. Two copies, one 3x5, one 8.5x11
At the museum
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Object, Art
  • People
  • LaRue Spiker
  • c 1950s
  • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
At the museum
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
People looking at artwork in a museum. Two copies, one 8x10, one 3x5
Statue entitled Social Conciousness
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Object, Art
  • LaRue Spiker
  • c 1950s
  • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Statue entitled Social Conciousness
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Statue entitled Social Conciousness Two copies, one 8.5x11, one 3x5
Photo of painting of calling bird
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Object, Art
  • LaRue Spiker
  • c 1950s
  • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Photo of painting of calling bird
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Modern Painting of calling bird on rock.
Photo of painting in Philadelphia
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Object, Art
  • LaRue Spiker
  • c 1950s
  • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Photo of painting in Philadelphia
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Photo of Modern Painting of nude man
Liberty Bell
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Object, Art
  • LaRue Spiker
  • c 1950s
  • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Liberty Bell
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
The Liberty Bell
Decorative Design
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Object, Art
  • Other, Decorations
  • Brod, Fritzi
  • 1958.
Decorative Design
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Composition: The Anatomy of Picture Making
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Object, Art
  • Other, Drawing
  • Stenbey, Harry
  • 1958.
Composition: The Anatomy of Picture Making
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Schoolboy Basketball Highlights - SWH High and Pemetic High
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Manuscript
  • Object, Basketball Gear, Basketball
  • Other, Pemetic High School
  • Other, Southwest Harbor
  • 1958
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
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • People
  • Wellington - C. G. (Clarence George) Wellington (1890-1960)
  • 1957-03-04
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
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Object, Site Marker, Monument
  • 1959-06
  • In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
Oblate Seminary cross
College of the Atlantic
Description:
The Oblate Seminary cross.
Canada Geese
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Gilley - Wendell Holmes Gilley (1904-1983)
  • 1950
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
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Gilley - Wendell Holmes Gilley (1904-1983)
  • 1957
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
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • People
  • Knight - Goodwin Knight (1896-1970)
  • 1957-04-08
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
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • People
  • Hoover - J. Edgar Hoover (1895-1972)
  • 1957-05-01
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
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • People
  • Land - Frank S. Land (1890-1959)
  • 1956
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
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Gilley - Wendell Holmes Gilley (1904-1983)
  • 1958
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
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Gilley - Wendell Holmes Gilley (1904-1983)
  • 1950
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
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Gilley - Wendell Holmes Gilley (1904-1983)
  • 1957 ?
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