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Accession # | Identifier | Title | Type | Subject | |
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1238 | Down East Bird Carving Exhibit Announcement |
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| Description: Page from an unknown publication announcing Gilley's exhibit of bird carvings at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia | |
1217 | Benefit Art Auction and Appraisal Day flyer |
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| Description: Flyer advertising the Wendell Gilley Museum Benefit Art Auction and Appraisal Day, Aug. 10, 1990. Auctioned items included a framed set of prints, "20 Birds of Mount Desert Island" by Carroll Sargent Tyson. | |
1400 | Desk calendar |
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| ![]() Description: Printed date on calendar is 1955 but it appears the Gilleys reused calendar pages to record events in subsequent years. | |
1553 | University of Maine at Orono Distinguished Achievement Award to Wendell H. Gilley |
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| Description: Distinguished achievement award recognizing Wendell Gilley's accomplishments presented posthumously at University of Maine at Orono commencement exercises on May 14, 1983. | |
1554 | University of Maine at Orono Distinguished Achievement Award Citation |
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| Description: Citation honoring Wendell Gilley read at University of Maine, Orono Commencement May 14, 1983 | |
1555 | University of Maine at Orono Class of 1925 Golden Anniversary Certificate |
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| Description: Certificate marking Wendell Gilley's fifty years as an alumnus of the University of Maine | |
1328 | Letter From Byron Cheever to Wendell H. Gilley |
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| Description: Original letter from Byron Cheever, Publisher of North American Decoys, expressing Cheever's willingness to publish Wendell Gilley's book and asking questions about publication and printing details. | |
1329 | Letter to Byron Cheever from Wendell H. Gilley, April 29, 1971 |
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| 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] | |
1351 | Letter from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr. to Wendell H. Gilley, June 10, 1971 |
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| Description: This letter accompanied O'Brien's submission of his draft foreword to Gilley's book The Art of Bird Carving | |
1353 | Letter to Nina Gormley from Gertrude Bancroft |
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| 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. | |
1354 | Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Donal C. O'Brien, Jr., May 9, 1980 |
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| Description: Discusses carvings to be included in the museum collection. | |
1355 | Letter from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr. to Belton Kleberg (B. K.) Johnson, May 6, 1971 |
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| Description: Letter describes a carving of a blue quail and bobwhite purchased by Johnson | |
1365 | Letter to the Wendell Gilley Museum from Sonia Cohn, Apr. 4, 1983 |
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| 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. | |
1410 | Letter to Wendell Gilley Museum from John A. Silver, Sept. 9, 1986 |
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| 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. | |
1435 | Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Sherman L. Smith, November 9, 1961 |
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| Description: Letter accompanying a photograph of the Bostitch Company lobby where Wendell Gilley's carving of terns were on display | |
1437 | Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Fred Clark, November 17, 1978 |
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| 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. | |
1438 | Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Fred Clark, December 2, 1979 |
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| Description: Letter to the President of Warren Tool Co., Fred Clark, discussing carving knives and blades | |
1439 | Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Fred Clark, November 6, 1978 |
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| Description: Letter to the President of Warren Tool Co., Fred Clark, containing Wendell Gilley's pencil illustrations of carving knives and blades | |
1440 | Letter to Wendell Gilley Museum from Donald M. Fenner, August 26, 2001 |
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| Description: Describes Wendell Gilley's visit to Herkimer New York where in 1967 Fenner invited him to be guest speaker at the National Woodcarvers Association Woodcarving Show held there. This letter is accompanied by photos of Wendell Gillley at the show. | |
1445 | Letter from Jack Ekstrom to Fred Clark, 1993 |
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| Description: Letter to the president of Warren Tool Co. from artist Ekstrom about an article and artwork of Wendell Gilley's chickadee for Popular Woodworking. Ekstrom describes how he had to carve the chickadee himself before he could finish the article. | |
1446 | Note from Ted Madara to Nina Gormley |
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| Description: Notecard reads "Dear Nina: We are lifelong summer residents of SWH and had the great fortune growing up to meet Wendell several times in his workshop while he was carving birds for my grandparents which we now cherish. My mother Linda Madara was asked by Downeast Magazine to write a story about Wendell and to photograph him and his carvings. We came across the text and original copy this summer and thought you may want it for the archives. Best regards, Ted Madara" Note accompanies a typescript of the magazine article, "Wendell Gilley - The Art of Fine Bird Carving" and photographic negatives. [show more] | |
1481 | Letter to Fred Clark from Nina Gormley, February 22, 1992 |
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| Description: Letter thanking Fred Clark, President of Warren Tool Co., for promoting the Gilley Museum in its catalog. The letter also describes winter events at the museum as well as the museum's collection of taxidermy. | |
1511 | Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Capt. Benjamin H. Rigg, Oct. 26, 1964 |
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| Description: Letter accompanied by a cardboard pattern of a spread tail grouse and a photograph of a belt grinder | |
1512 | Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Mr. and Mrs. Foster B. Whitlock, February 19, 1982 |
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| 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 . | |
1513 | Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Mr. and Mrs. Foster B. Whitlock, March 17, 1982 |
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| 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. | |
1552 | Letter from Frank S. Land to Wendell H. Gilley. |
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| 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. | |
1556 | Letter to Steven C. Rockefeller from Nina Z. Gormley, March 16, 1990 |
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| Description: Letter regarding the possible exhibition of a Gilley piece in the Spirits and Nature Exhibition organized by Steven Rockefeller and held at Middlebury College. The piece was a carved and painted group of eiders made in 1970. Color slide transparency enclosed with letter | |
1557 | Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from J. Edgar Hoover |
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| 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. | |
1558 | Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Goodwin J. Knight |
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| 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. | |
1559 | Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from C. G. Wellington |
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| 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. | |
1565 | Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Lemuel T. Ward, Nov. 8, 1965 |
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| Description: Lemuel T. Ward, the noted decoy carver, wrote this letter to Wendell Gilley after meeting him at an unnamed carving show | |
1196 | Letter from James C. Collins to The Eider |
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| 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 | |
1197 | Letter to Wendell Gilley Museum from Isabel Thacher |
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| Description: This letter describes three birds (a bobwhite, a yellowlegs, and a gull) carved by Wendell Gilley and owned by the letter writer, Isabel Thacher. | |
1198 | Letter from Steven C. Rockefeller to Members of the Wendell Gilley Museum Nominating Committee |
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| Description: Letter concerning the proposed nomination of Arthur Rogers, Jr. for trustee of the museum by Jim Wallis | |
1199 | Letter to Mrs. Otis D. Wolfe from Steven C. Rockefeller |
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| Description: Letter to the donor of a bronze sculpture by Walther Matia in memory of Foster Whitlock . The letter thanks her for her donation of the sculpture to the museum and describes the dedication ceremony. | |
1200 | Letter from Raymond L. Stearns to Nina Gormley |
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| Description: Letter to the Museum Director about sending the museum copies of letters received from Wendell Gilley. Enclosed are two letters by Wendell Gilley to Mr. Stearns. | |
1201 | Letter from Wendell Gilley to Raymond L. Stearns |
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| 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. | |
1202 | Letter to Raymond L. Stearns from Wendell Gilley |
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| 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 | |
1203 | Letter to Nina Gormley from Norman Ashley Willock |
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| Description: Letter concerning the packing and shipping of a pintail duck carving commissioned from Wendell Gilley by Norman Willock and returned to the museum for repair. | |
1204 | Letter to Nina Gormley from Lucretia W. Evans |
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| Description: This letter expresses Lucretia Evans' intention to donate her copy of Wendell Gilley's book Bird Carving, a Guide to a Fascinating Hobby, which she believed might be a first edition. | |
1205 | Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr. |
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| Description: This letter acknowledges receipt of a letter and chisel from Gilley, and discusses various carvings including a spotted sandpiper on a mussel shell and two pairs of quail | |
1206 | Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr. |
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| Description: This letter discusses correspondence between Wendell Gilley and Byron Cheever, author and magazine publisher, about Gilley's book. The author of the letter makes suggestions about paper and cover art and discusses copyright. | |
1207 | Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr. |
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| Description: Letter discusses sending text, artwork, and photos for the book, Art of Bird Carving, to Byron Cheever. Flying goose, bob-white and blue quail carvings are also mentioned. | |
1208 | Letter to Donal C. O'Brien, Jr. from Byron Cheever |
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| Description: Letter acknowledges receipt of a copy of O'Brien's letter to Wendell H. Gilley. Cheever promises to work on the material for Gilley's book but says hes is in the process of getting the summer issue of North American Decoys ready for the printer. | |
1209 | Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Byron Cheever |
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| Description: Contains instructions for making changes to Gilley's book The Art of Bird Carving for a new edition. | |
1210 | Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Thomas C. Schuller |
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| Description: This letter asks Gilley to repair one of a pair of herons that was damaged in a move. | |
1211 | Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Byron Cheever |
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| Description: Cheever writes that he has received the materials for Gilley's book and that he read the new chapter on decoys and thought it was well done. He also talks about meeting carver Harold Haertel in Chicago at a meeting of decoy collectors. | |
1212 | Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr. |
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| Description: Note from O'Brien included with a copy of a letter from Byron Cheever. O'Brien mentions having been asked by Peggy Rockefeller if Gilley would sell her a flock of geese. | |
1213 | Letter From Byron Cheever to Wendell H. Gilley |
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| Description: Photocopy from the original by Byron Cheever listing questions he had regarding publishing Gilley's book. Gilley's answers as dictated to Donal C. O'Brien, Jr. are in pencil after each question. | |
1214 | Letter to Byron Cheever from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr. |
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| Description: This letter praises Wendell Gilley's inventiveness, his carving and his book . O'Brien refers to a vise for holding decoys and carvings for painting that Wendell includes in the book. | |
1215 | Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr. |
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| Description: This letter thanks Gilley for sending a vise. O'Brien also encloses correspondence with Byron Cheever about publishing Gilley's book. | |
1216 | Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr. |
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| Description: Letter describing O'Brien's sailing trip around Buckle Island, Swans Island and others and the eiders and ospreys he saw. This letter also mentions Gilley's idea for a museum. | |
1218 | Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr. |
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| Description: Letter describing the making of 36 duck decoys.. O'brien also mentions picking up a finished woodcock from Gilley. | |
1219 | Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr. |
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| Description: O'Brien acknowledges receipt of a spotted sandpiper carving from Gilley and discusses a handle Gillely designed for an X-Acto blade as well as decoy designs. | |
1220 | Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr. |
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| Description: Thank you letter for a gift of a carved pair of ruffed grouse | |
1221 | Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr. |
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| Description: Letter discusses publishing Gilley's book in a limited edition as well as including a photograph of Gilley with an osprey as an insert. It also mentions a carving of an owl and another of a bobwhite quail on a hatchet. | |
1240 | Letter from Robert M. Peck to Wendell Gilley, March 1, 1977 |
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| Description: Letter congratulating Gilley on the success of the exhibition Downeast Bird Carvings of Wendell Gilley at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. On exhibit were sixty-one carvings of birds "on display together for the first time." 34, 272 people attended the exhibit during its ten week run from October 29, 1976 to January 7, 1977. | |
1241 | Letter to Wendell Gilley from Barbara Tyson |
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| Description: Letter thanking Wendell Gilley for the loan of his carvings for the exhibit Downeast Bird Carvings by Wendell Gilley held at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Oct. 29, 1976 through Jan. 7, 1977 | |
1630 | Downeast Bird Carvings by Wendell Gilley exhibit opening invitation |
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| Description: Invitation to a black tie dinner celebrating the opening of the exhibit Downeast Bird Carvings by Wendell Gilley at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, Pa. On the back page is a handwritten note from Barbara Tyson to Wendell. | |
1411 | Christmas Card from Addie and Wendell Gilley |
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| Description: Christmas card featuring a pair of carved wood ducks on a piece of driftwood. No date. Signed "Addie & Wendell Gilley" | |
1412 | Christmas Card from Addie and Wendell Gilley, 1969 |
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| 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 | |
1413 | Christmas Card from Addie and Wendell Gilley, 1976 |
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| 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 | |
1414 | Christmas Card from Addie and Wendell Gilley, 1967 |
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| 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 | |
1415 | Christmas Card from Addie and Wendell Gilley, 1968 |
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| Description: Christmas card featuring a carved saw-whet owl. Signed "Wendell & Addie Gilley" below image. Marked 1968 on reverse side of card. | |
1480 | Rough Draft of Article by Fred Clark for The Mallet |
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| 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. | |
1589 | Wendell Gilley's Maine Master Plumber License |
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| Description: Original master plumber license issued by the State of Maine to Wendell Gilley, owner of Gilley Plumbing Company, in 1944 | |
1330 | Eagles |
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| Description: Typescript draft of a section included in The Art of Bird Carving by Wendell Gilley describing his techniques for carving eagles. |