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| Shang : a biography of Charles E. Wheeler Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Shang : a biography of Charles E. Wheeler Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Published: Spanish Fork, Utah : Hillcrest Publications, c1984 Inscription to the museum by the author on half title page. | ||
| Want to carve a duck? : a beginner's guide Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Want to carve a duck? : a beginner's guide Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Published: Southwest Harbor, Maine : Publisher's Northeast. Inscription to Nina Gormley by the author on title page. | ||
| Canada Goose Wendell Gilley Museum |
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| King Eider Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  King Eider Wendell Gilley Museum Description: King Eider on post ; painted sheet metal feet ; "Gilley" signature and date engraved on bottom of bird ; bird detaches from post | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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. | ||
| 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. | ||
| 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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| Goldfinch Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Goldfinch Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Adult male goldfinch in summer plumage sitting on real branch ; "Gilley" signature on front topside of base almost completely faded ; additionally underside bears jackknife rubber stamp Gilley mark ; underside of base marked "Wedding gift to Joe + Anne Bragdon from Wendell H. Gilley + Addie" ; dated Oct, 4, 1981. | ||
| Gilley: Portrait of a Bird Carver Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Gilley: Portrait of a Bird Carver Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: A film on DVD about Wendell Gilley, master carver from Southwest Harbor. Title: Gilley: Portrait of a Bird Carver. A documentary story filmed during the construction of the museum built in his honor in 1981. Film by Richard W. Adams, with a 2004 update on the 25th anniversary of the Museum and the centennial of the birth of Wendell Gilley. Running time of 25 minutes. | ||
| 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 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. | |
| Bangor Daily News article, Oct. 31, 1984. Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Bangor Daily News article, Oct. 31, 1984. Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Article from the Bangor Daily News reporting on a donation of Wendell Gilley bird carvings by artist Ethel Mae James to the museum | ||
| Bald Eagle Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Bald Eagle Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Eagle standing over fish. Signed "Gilley" on front of base; inscribed "Bald Eagle 1982 by W.H. Gilley" on underside of base. Metal fish is removeable. | ||
| Long-billed Curlew Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Long-billed Curlew Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Snapshot of curlew carved by Wendell Gilley placed on a coffee table. "Addie's Xmas present" written on reverse side of photograph | ||
| Making a Difference, What it Takes to Make a Duck Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Making a Difference, What it Takes to Make a Duck Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Article from Audubon Adventures, volume 2, number 4 (February/March 1986). Matthew Beal and Stephen Brooks are interviewed about learning to carve at the Wendell Gilley Museum with museum artist Steven Valleau. | ||
| Addie and Wendell Gilley with Barn Owl, Shorebirds and Ducks, Opening Day Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Addie and Wendell Gilley with Barn Owl, Shorebirds and Ducks, Opening Day Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Addie and Wendell Gilley passing display cases at the museum's opening day. | |
| Wendell Gilley Carving an Osprey, November 1981 Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Wendell Gilley Carving an Osprey, November 1981 Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Polaroid photograph of Wendell Gilley in his workshop working on an osprey carving | ||
| Woodcock Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Woodcock Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Adult woodcock with feet stretching downward over face of the domed burl base ; head erect facing straight ahead with long bill pointed downward ; glass eyes, wire legs and metal feet. Signed "Gilley '80" on right side of base ; Marked "Woodcock by W.H. Gilley 1980" on underside of base. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Letter to Wendell Gilley Museum from John A. Silver, Sept. 9, 1986 Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Letter to Wendell Gilley Museum from John A. Silver, Sept. 9, 1986 Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Letter describes Mr. Silver's visit to Elmer Crowell's workshop where he purchased several miniature bird carvings, and his subsequent visit to Wendell Gilley's workshop. Enclosed are photographs of a greater yellowlegs and a duck carved by Crowell. Silver also describes Wendell Gilley's trip to Abercrombie and Fitch where he was inspired to start bird carving. |
