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Title Type Subject Creator Date Place Rights
Newspaper article commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Eastern Maine Basketball Champions of 1924
Great Harbor Maritime Museum
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Object, Clothing, Uniform, Sports Uniform
  • Organizations, School Institution
  • People
  • Recreation, Sports, Basketball
  • 1984
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
The photograph is a newspaper clipping (text on reverse) from April 12, 1984 that describes 1924 championship team. The Gilman High School of Northeast Harbor basketball team and their coach Stanley Week posed outside after winning the Eastern Maine basketball tournament at the University of Maine at Orono in 1924. The players are in uniform, and Week holds the plaque they won. People Depicted: Stanley Week, Burton Seavey, Edward Ralph, Albert Manchester, Stuart Branscom, Horace Bucklin, Francis Atwood, Jerome Knowles, Merrill Whitmore and Paul Bucklin. Also mentioned in the article are Douglas Driscoll, Carl Kelley Black and white [show more]
Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Donal C. O'Brien, Jr., May 9, 1980
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Gilley - Wendell Holmes Gilley (1904-1983)
  • 1980-05-09
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
Discusses carvings to be included in the museum collection.
Letter to the Wendell Gilley Museum from Sonia Cohn, Apr. 4, 1983
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • People
  • Cohn - Sonia Cohn.
  • 1983-04-04
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
The letter writer is asking for more information on Wendell Gilley after watching a Boston television program profiling him. She also mentions owning a Gilley carving of a mallard pair.
Letter to Wendell Gilley Museum from John A. Silver, Sept. 9, 1986
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • People
  • Silver - John A. Silver
  • 1986-09-09
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
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.
Rough Draft of Article by Fred Clark for The Mallet
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Document, Manuscript
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • People
  • Clark - Fred Clark
  • 1980 c
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
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.
Ribbon Cutting at Wendell Gilley Museum, July 12, 1981
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Image, Photograph
  • Events
  • People
  • 1981-07-12
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
Guests of honor, Wendell and Addie Gilley cut the ribbon on the museum's opening day.
Wendell and Addie Gilley Entering the Gilley Museum on Opening Day
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Image, Photograph
  • Events
  • People
  • 1981-07-12
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
Wendell and Addie Gilley, guests of honor at the museum's opening day, walk up the front walk
Wendell and Addie Gilley at Opening Day of Gilley Museum
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Image, Photograph
  • Events
  • People
  • 1981-07-12
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
Wendell Gilley waves as Addie enters the front door of the new museum
Wendell and Addie Gilley at the Gilley Museum on opening day
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Image, Photograph
  • Events
  • People
  • 1981-07-12
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
The Gilleys with Steven Rockefeller looking at miniature carvings in a round display case
Addie Gilley with Herons, Opening Day
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Image, Photograph
  • Events
  • People
  • 1981-07-12
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
Addie Gilley examines carving of herons in display case at the museum's opening day.
Wendell Gilley in front of new Wendell Gilley Museum building
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • Structures, Civic, Exhibition, Museum
  • Adams - Richard Adams
  • 1981-02
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
Wendell Gilley at construction site of new museum building
Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Mr. and Mrs. Foster B. Whitlock, February 19, 1982
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Organizations, Civic
  • Gilley - Wendell Holmes Gilley (1904-1983)
  • 1982-02-19
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
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 from Wendell H. Gilley to Mr. and Mrs. Foster B. Whitlock, March 17, 1982
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • Gilley - Wendell Holmes Gilley (1904-1983)
  • 1982-03-17
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
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.
Arnold T. Melbye, February 1983
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • 1983-02
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Arnold T. Melbye, February 1983
Wendell Gilley Museum
Description:
Decoy carver Arnold T. Melbye watching Wendell Gilley film on television at the home of Anne Small in South Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Nina Gormley, February 1981
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • Adams - Richard Adams
  • 1981-02
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Nina Gormley, February 1981
Wendell Gilley Museum
Description:
Nina Z. Gormley with sound recording gear in Wendell Gilley's workshop
Wendell Gilley Carving an Osprey, November 1981
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Image, Photograph
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • People
  • 1981-11-21
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
Polaroid photograph of Wendell Gilley in his workshop working on an osprey carving
Wendell and Addie Gilley at the Gilley Museum on opening day
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Image, Photograph
  • Events
  • People
  • 1981-07-12
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
The Gilleys viewing exhibits followed by Steven Rockefeller
Bangor Daily News article, Oct. 31, 1984.
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • People
  • 1984-10-31
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
Article from the Bangor Daily News reporting on a donation of Wendell Gilley bird carvings by artist Ethel Mae James to the museum
Addie and Wendell Gilley with Barn Owl, Shorebirds and Ducks, Opening Day
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Image, Photograph
  • Events
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • People
  • 1981-07-12
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
Addie and Wendell Gilley passing display cases at the museum's opening day.
Long-billed Curlew
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Image, Photograph
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • 1980-11
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
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
Letter from James C. Collins to The Eider
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Object, Other Object
  • People
  • Collins - James C.
  • 1983
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
Letter to the editor of the Wendell Gilley Museum's publication, The Eider, from James C. Collins after learning of Wendell Gilley's death
Letter to Raymond L. Stearns from Wendell Gilley
Wendell Gilley Museum
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Object, Art, Sculpture, Carving
  • People
  • Gilley - Wendell Holmes Gilley (1904-1983)
  • 1981-10-21
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
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
LaRue Spiker and Friend Picnic on Little Cranberry Photograph, 1980
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • People
  • Recreation
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Dock
  • Daniell, George
  • 1980
  • Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
LaRue Spiker and an unidentified friend sit in a docked boat for a picnic on Little Cranberry Island. A note on the back of the photograph from the photographer George Daniell to Spiker explains the excursion. Daniell also invites Spiker to view other photographs and works of art when she comes to visit him. Inscription on back is a message to LaRue Spiker from the photographer, George Daniell, in red pen. People Depicted: LaRue Spiker Black and white [show more]
Children at College of the Atlantic Ocean Day Photograph, March 21, 1981
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Events
  • Nature, Animals
  • Organizations, School Institution
  • People
  • Jacob, John P.
  • 1981-03-21
  • Bar Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
Children examine whale bones and other materials at the College of the Atlantic "Ocean Day" on March 21, 1981. Inscription on back reads "College of the Atlantic "Ocean Day" March 21, 1981/ Photo by John Jacob/ Please Return" in blue pen and "John P. Jacob/ COA/ 288-5015" in red pen. Black and white
Bird's-eye view of Bar Harbor, Maine
Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association
  • Map
  • Places, Town
  • Rainoff, GregRainoff, Greg
  • 1981
  • Bar Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Bird's-eye view of Bar Harbor, Maine
Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association
Description:
Print of a pen and ink, bird's-eye view of Bar Harbor, Maine.