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A Predictive Model for Common Loon Productivity on Mount Desert Island
A Preliminary List of the Summer Birds of Mount Desert Island Maine
A Profile on Dengue: The Infamous Neglected Tropical Disease
Advertising photograph for Warren Tools (3)
Algal Blooms and Common Loons in Maine
Allen Pond Camp (2)
American robin relief on side of Wendell Gilley Museum building
American water and game birds.
Amphibian Crossings in Acadia National
Art and Nan Kellam with Corey the Dog
Art of the decoy : American bird carvings.
Asticou Terraces, Thuya Lodge & Thuya GardenAsticou Terraces Pictorial Map, 1973
Atlantic Puffin (6)
Audubon Boy (2)
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Bald Eagle (10)
Bar Harbor Life, August 26, 1905
Barn Owl (2)
Barn, woodshed & henhouse, Tom Fennelly's
Betsy Flagg Melcher's Sketchbooks
Beyond the spring : Cordelia Stanwood of Birdsacre.
Bird Stories for Little People
Bird-life : a guide to the study of our common birds
Birds in wood and paint : American miniature bird carvings and their carvers, 1900-1970
Birds of Mount Desert Island and Where to Find Them
Birds of Mt. Desert Island Acadia National Park.
Black Capped Chickadee, Pair (4)
Black Duck (6)
Black Duck, Pair (2)
Black Guillemot Nesting Habitat on Little Duck Island
Black-capped Chickadee Pair (2)
Blackpoll Warbler Nesting Habitat
Bluebird (7)
Bob Howe Catches a Herring Gull
Bob Howe Inspects a Baby Herring Gull
Bobwhite (5)
Bobwhite Quail Hen with Six Chicks
Bowditch Journal account of a beached whale
Brief bird biographies : a guide to birds through habitat associations.
Bronze Plaque on Little Duck Island
Brown Pelican (3)
Bud Long captures a Black Guillemot
Bud Long Takes Notes a Herring Gull Nest
Bud Long's Birding Notebook from 1949
Bufflehead (3)
Bufflehead, Male (2)
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C. S. Murphy 5 Years Old with Horse
Camp Site on Little Duck Island
Canada Geese (3)
Canada Goose (13)
Canvasback (3)
Canvasback, Male (2)
Capt. William Bill Horace Herrick Leading John Whitmore's Fast Speed Horse To Be Shot (2)
Carving of Great Blue Heron with Trout in Wendell H. Gilley's Workshop
Carvings and Signage of Charles Savage
Centennial Hall - As W.H. Ward Jr. Store
Certificate to Neal L. Murphy From Louise M. Heath
Checklist of the Birds of Acadia National Park
Chef Red Long Prepares Another Lobster Dinner
Chickadee (2)
Children at College of the Atlantic Ocean Day Photograph, March 21, 1981
Christmas Card from Addie and Wendell Gilley
Christmas Card from Addie and Wendell Gilley, 1967
Christmas Card from Addie and Wendell Gilley, 1968
Christmas Card from Addie and Wendell Gilley, 1969
Christmas Card from Addie and Wendell Gilley, 1976
Christopher Wendell Lawlor Plowing with Team
Christopher Wendell Lawlor with Work Horse "General"
Christopher Wendell Lawlor's Family in a Sleigh (2)
Clapboard House Unknown Location
Coastal Marine Life History of Mount Desert Island 1903-2021
Cocker Spaniel puppy with two front paws on white ottoman.
Collage of dog photos by Susan White ca. 2010
Common eider relief on side of Wendell Gilley Museum building
Common Loon (4)
Communal nesting of Double-Crested Cormorants
Connect to nature, creativity at Wendell Gilley Museum[ magazine article]
Copy of horse and wagon outside Green Mountain House
Copy of old photo of horse and wagon by Green Mountain House
Cormorant (4)
Cranberry Isles: Glimpses of Island Life, 1976
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"Daisy on Daisy" - Margaret Arnold Rand Side Saddle at Bar Harbor
"Daisy" on "Daisy" and Mr. M. Mounted on "Lillie"
Dale, Fred H. to Spiker, LaRue
Dead Deer and Moose Hanging (2)
Decoy Branscom Male Eider ca 1915
Distribution of Four Ground-Dwelling Arthropod Families
Dog Sniffy (2)
Dot and Rick Church at Homewood with Corey the dog
Dot Church and Marianne New with Corey
Double-crested Cormorant, Pair
Double-Crested Cormorant Phalacrocirax Auritus Nests
Dr. George Arthur Neal with Horse and Sleigh
Dr. George Arthur Neal's Horse, Buggy and Dog at Home
Drawing of Chipmunk, Beaver, and Black Bear
Ducks on Ipswich River, Ipswich, Massachusetts
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Eagle Plaque (2)
Edmund Blanchard Reed II with Horse
Edward Lothrop Rand and Buckboard Party on High Head
Elizabeth M. Thurston, Mrs. Stanwood Hart King and son, Stanwood Leslie King on a Horse
Emily Robinson Farnsworth, Mrs. Alton E. Farnsworth, on a Donkey
Equestrian Extravaganza (Robin Hood Park)
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Finding the Birds of Mount Desert Island
Finding Travel Distances of Snakes to Islands on the Coast of Maine
Fire Pumper and Three Horses Racing to a Fire
Fish in Weir Net (2)
Fish on the Wharf at Southwest Harbor Negative, 1945
Fish Passage Assessment of Mount Desert Island
"Fluffy", Jane Augusta “Jennie” (Lathrop) Rand - Mrs. Edward Sprague Rand's Cat (2)
Four Cows at the Downs at Eastern Point
"Fox Dens" - Underwood Dog "Raynor" (2)
Frank Leslie Hodgdon's Horses Drinking from the Frog Pond Below the Old Center Meeting House
Fred Cutter Parker, Jack Cutter Parker and William "Willie" Edwin Parker on a Buckboard
From Lake to Sea: Winter Habitations of Common Loons
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Gathering Firewood on Little Duck Island
George Harrison and Bennie Long in a "pup tent"
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“Georgie” and Family Dog "Pug"
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Glass Plate Negative, Mount Desert Rock (2)
Global Restrictions on Shark Finning
Golden Eagle (2)
Goldfinch (4)
Good things from Maine : fine feathers[ magazine article]
Goose Model (8)
Gott, James Austin, with his dog.
Grading the Dirt Road near the Simeon Amasa Holden House, Tremont, Maine
Great Blue Heron (4)
Great Blue Heron with Trout (2)
Great Horned Owl (4)
Green Heron (2)
Green-winged Teal and Blue-winged Teal
Group of four ducks and a Canada goose
Gulls (2)
Gulls Hatching on Great Duck Island
Gymkhana Photograph Album no. 1
Gymkhana Photograph Album no. 2
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Hal Harrison Hand-Feeding a Flock of Birds
Harbor view, Bass Harbor Light
Hawksbill Sea Turtle - Eretmochelys imbricata
Heck of a Halibut, article 2004; Bracy's 200-pound halibut
Henry W. Sawyer with Oxen "Crook" and "Straight"
Heron relief on side of Wendell Gilley Museum building
Herring Gull (8)
Herring Gull eggs on Little Duck Island
Herring Gulls (2)
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Ice Harvest on Mt. Desert, Maine
Interpreting the Songbirds of Great Duck Island, Maine
Inventory of Real Estate of Abraham Somes Senior
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Jack - The Bemis Family Horse (3)
James Parker to Letitia A. Parker Letter and Envelope, September 27, 1863
Jane Augusta “Jennie” (Lathrop) Rand's Family Cat - “Tucker”
John Saltonstall, 77, kills attacking shark
John Tyler Murphy and wife Viola A. (Marshall) Murphy on their Wedding Day
Joseph C. Lawlor at the Blue Hill Fair Horse Pulling Contest
Joseph C. Lawlor with friends and "Barney"
J-Pod Southern Resident Killer Whale Movement
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King Eider (2)
King Eider, Male (2)
Kittens in chair at S. N. Gilpatrick's Farm.
Kittens in chair, Northeast Harbor
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LaRita Tapley with Bobtail Kittens
LaRue Spiker and her Camping Trailer
Lawrence Flye and Ralph Holland
Lawrence "Lonnie" B. Sawyer and Ox
Leach's Storm-Petrel Bird with Egg in Burrow
Leach's Storm-Petrel Distribution on Great Duck Island (2)
Leach's Storm-Petrel Oceanodroma Leucorhoa
Letter: Belle Smallidge Knowles to
Letter: Belle Smallidge Knowles to A. H. Lynam
Letter: Belle Smallidge Knowles to Charles W. Eliot
Letter: Belle Smallidge Knowles to Ernest H. Forbush
Letter: Belle Smallidge Knowles to George B. Dorr
Letter: Belle Smallidge Knowles to Jennie Russell Goodall
Letter: Belle Smallidge Knowles to Mrs. E. M. Foster
Letter: Belle Smallidge Knowles to Mrs. F. P. Abbott
Letter: Belle Smallidge Knowles to Mrs. Frank L. Powers
Letter: Belle Smallidge Knowles to Mrs. Frederick P. Abbott
Letter: Belle Smallidge Knowles to Mrs. L. S. Emery
Letter: Charles C. Adams to Belle Smallidge Knowles
Letter: Emerson Hough to Belle Smallidge Knowles
Letter from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr. to Belton Kleberg (B. K.) Johnson, May 6, 1971
Letter from Harvard to Saltonstall re: shark (2)
Letter from Jack Ekstrom to Fred Clark, 1993
Letter from Wendell Gilley to Raymond L. Stearns
Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Fred Clark, November 17, 1978
Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Fred Clark, November 6, 1978
Letter: George B. Dorr to Belle Smallidge Knowles
Letter: Margaret W. Holmes to Belle Smallidge Knowles
Letter: Mrs. L. S. Emery to Belle Smallidge Knowles
Letter: T. Gilbert Pearson to Belle Smallidge Knowles (2)
Letter to Fred Clark from Nina Gormley, February 22, 1992
Letter to Nina Gormley from Norman Ashley Willock
Letter to Wendell Gilley Museum from Isabel Thacher
Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr. (5)
Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Sherman L. Smith, November 9, 1961
Linus the Long-Haired Wonder Horse Advertising Card
Lobby display, Bostitch Company, East Greenwich, Rhode Island, 1961
Lobstering and The Maine Coast
Long-eared Owl with Black-capped Chickadee
Lottie R. King and Howard Milton Reed
Lottie R. King and Howard Milton Reed Holding Animals
Lucy Ella Lawler Whitmore and Family Dog, "Pat"
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Main Street, Northeast Harbor, ME
Main Street, Somesville, 1870.
Maine Lobsterboats: Builders and Lobstermen Speak of Their Craft
Maine Oyster Trail Pilot Project, Damariscotta River
Mallard Drake (12)
Mallard, Female (3)
Mallard Pair (2)
Man Driving a Buckboard at Head of Somes Sound
Man, Woman and Dog on Fuller Street
Marion E. Stanley Holding Her Brother, Charles Warren Stanley, on a Horse
Marion Quincy Winslow Rand, Mrs. Henry Lathrop Rand - "Our Mayflower Buggy"
Mary, Laura, Henrietta and Dick
Mary "May" Melissa (Norwood) Davis Carter Feeding a Young Bald Eagle
MDI Intertidal Species Relation with Sediment Types
Migration of Birds, Atlantic Flyway
Modern Deer Management Methods Needed in Maine
Moses Morse Sawin and Sawin's Express on Oxford Street, Cambridge
Mount Desert Deer, Past and Present, 1944
Mount Desert House Stereograph
Mount Desert House (The Tavern)
Mount Desert Kennel Club Dog Show Poster, c. 1930s
Mount Desert Rock Oceanography Survey
Mout Desert Deer Past and Present
Mr. And Mrs. Seth Sprague Thornton (Nell Rebecca (Carroll) Thornton) Off for Bass Harbor
Mr. M with his Horses "Daisy" and "Lillie"
Mystic Isle Explorer' Club - Duck Island Expedition
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"Nana" - Mary Ann Nana Forbes - and Family Dog Pug
Nathan Rome with large cod 1958
Native Birds of Mount Desert Island
Native Birds of Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park (2)
Nell Rebecca (Carroll) Thornton and Prince at Home in Houlton, Maine
Nell Rebecca (Carroll) Thornton on Prince with Seth Sprague Thornton, Houlton, Maine
Nell Rebecca (Carroll) Thornton with Prince at Houlton, Maine
Nest and Eggs of Black Guillemot
Nest of Herring Gulls on Great Duck Island
Nest Site Selection of the Black Guillemot on Great Duck island
Nesting Sea Turtles on a Changing Caribbean Island
Nests and eggs of the birds of the United States
Nests and Eggs of the Common Eider on Little Duck Island
No Fresh Water on Little Duck Island
Northern Pacific Sound Pollution
Notes Added in 1951, on 20 Years' Change
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On Track of the Pale Clouded Yellow Butterfly
Oral History Interview of John Fernald
Oral History Interview of John Kief
Osprey (4)
Osprey relief on side of Wendell Gilley Museum building
Osprey with Flounder on Branch
Owl relief on side of Wendell Gilley Museum building
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Pelicans (2)
Peter Warren Peterson With His First Horse
Peter Warren Peterson With Horses
Pheasants, their lives and homes.
Philip Clifton Rich and Cindy in Living Room at 50 Clark Point Road, Southwest Harbor
Photos of places , duck hunt, and whale on GCI
Pintail Drake (2)
Pintail, Pair (3)
Portraits of New England birds.
Postcard Showing Canada Goose Carving
Postcard showing Mallard Drake
Profile of cat (2)
Puffin relief on side of Wendell Gilley Museum building
Pug Rand with his Steamer Trunk
Puppy in grass (7)
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Ralph Phippen's Lobster Trap Negative, 1937 (1)
Ralph Phippen's Lobster Trap Negative, 1937 (2)
Rand Family Cat Muffin in a Hammock
Red-breasted Merganser, Female
Red-breasted Merganser, Male (2)
Regulations for taking Clams within the Town of Eden
Rex Brasher's Birds & trees of North America. Volume one.
Ring-necked Pheasant, Male (2)
River Herring Co-management in Downeast Maine
River Herring in the Concord River Watershed
Roadrunner (2)
Robert Morse model bird: Blue Heron
Robert Morse model bird: Great Horned Owl
Robert Morse model bird: Road Runner
Robert Morse model bird: Snowy Owl
Roy Salisbury Collection - Miscellaneous
Roy Salisbury Collection - Nathan Fennelly Invoices
Ruffed Grouse (4)
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Saw-whet Owl (9)
Scans of seven large-format slides by Michael Macfarlan 1955
Screech Owl (2)
SEA GULLS, Mount Desert Island, Maine
Seagulls on the Wharf at Southwest Harbor
Shell Midden Remains and Photographs
Simeon "Sim" Holden Mayo and Lisa Caroline Mayo with "Lady Jane" and Cart
Spaniel Puppy (2)
Spotted and Solitary Sandpipers
Stained Glass Window of Bishop Doane
Steven Valleau in his workshop
Student Projects, Interviews of Locals on Various Topics
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Taxidermist made Stuffed Pheasant
Team of Horses Grading the Avenue, The Underwood Cottage - Squirrelhurst
The Art of Bird Carving: a Guide to a Fascinating Hobby
The Bale National Park: Harenna Forest, Ethiopia
The Dorr Museum Collections and their Global Origins
The Snow Owl - Stuffed Owl in Collection of Wendell Holmes Gilley
Three Lobstermen at Hampton Harbor Photograph
Three Shell Heaps on Frenchman's Bay
Town of Bar Harbor Shellfish Management Map
Tracking Great White Sharks in the Gulf of Maine
Twenty Birds of Mount Desert Island, prints
Two Dogs (2)
Two Herring Gull Nests with Eggs on Great Duck Island
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Unique Features in Forest Growh of MDI Found in Study Completed by Ecologist
Unknown Man with Deer on Unknown Porch
Upland Plover (2)
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Viola A. Marshall Murphy - Mrs. John Tyler Murphy and Children Shopping in Southwest Harbor
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Wagon in Front of Higgins' Store Photograph
Want to carve a duck? : a beginner's guide
Warbler Sightings on MDI from 1993-2011
Wendell Gilley and Steven Rockefeller
Wendell Gilley Carving a Bird (2)
Wendell Gilley Carving a Pheasant
Wendell Gilley Carving an Osprey, November 1981
Wendell Gilley in His Studio Photograph
Wendell Gilley in his Workshop
Wendell Gilley Painting a Canada Goose
Wendell Gilley Painting a Godwit
Wendell Gilley with Great Horned Owl
Wendell Gilley with life-size wild turkey carving
Wendell H. Gilley Carving a Grouse
Wendell H. Gilley Carving Eagle
Wendell H. Gilley Holding Carved Osprey
Wendell H. Gilley Holding Eagle Carving and Miniature Mallard, Summer 1971
Wendell H. Gilley Holding Owl Carving
Wendell H. Gilley in his workshop - Dec. 1960
Wendell H. Gilley Painting a Cardinal
Wendell H. Gilley, September 1974
Wendell H. Gilley with Eagle, November 1970
Wendell Holmes Gilley at Work on a Goose
Wild Turkey (3)
Willet (2)
William "Bill" Lawlor and Joseph C. Lawlor with "Barney"
William "Bill" Lawlor and Team of Horses
William "Bill" Lawlor Haying on Fernald Point
William Croswell Doane & Cluny
William Holden Whitmore Barn with Ox and Hayrick
William Wiggy Edgar Herrick and Children with Horse and Buggy on Maple Lane
Winifred Russell Carroll and Teddy
Winifred Russell Carroll, later Mrs. Albanus Moulton Pottle and Nero
Winifred Russell Carroll with Prince at Houlton, Maine
Woman with 'Fluffy' Jane Augusta 'Jennie' (Lathrop) Rand - Mrs. Edward Sprague Rand's Cat
Women with Horse and Carriage Photograph
Wood Duck (2)
Wood duck decoys carved BS and LCS
Wood Duck, Group (2)
Wood Duck, Pair (3)
Woodcock (12)
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Yellowlegs (6)