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A. A. Hanna in Coast Guard Uniform
Acetylene Beacon Traffic Control Tower
Advertisement for Hartford Marine Engines
Advertising photograph for Warren Tools (3)
Agnes Yarnall LePage Collection - Circus
Agnes Yarnall LePage Collection - Clowns
Agnes Yarnall LePage Collection - Mosaics
Alan A. Hanna with Navigation Equipment
Alice Sargeant Memorial, Stained Glass Window
American robin relief on side of Wendell Gilley Museum building
ANP account of weather conditions during Fire of 1947
Antique sewing machine from the Moorfield Storey house
Antique telephone with wooden box and hand crank
Art of the decoy : American bird carvings.
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“At Rest”, Bob Palmer's Digger
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Atlantic Puffin (3)
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Badge. Northeast Harbor Fire Deparment. Original owner Eliot Kimball.
Bald Eagle (6)
Bangor Daily News article, Oct. 31, 1984.
Basket and lid with modern sewing notions
Belle Smallidge Knowles memorial, plaque
Benefit Art Auction and Appraisal Day flyer
Bids on Construction of New Museum Building for MDI Historical Society
Birch bench with green cushion
Bird Carvings by Wendell Gilley Exhibit Sign
Bird nest under a glass bell-like jar
Birds in wood and paint : American miniature bird carvings and their carvers, 1900-1970
Black Capped Chickadee, Pair (2)
Black Duck (2)
Black-capped Chickadee Pair (2)
Blue pitcher with wash basin and vase
Boatbuilding tool or garden weeder (unknown)
Bobwhite (4)
Book of Hours, illuminated manuscript
Bookends and other signage of Charles Savage (2)
Bufflehead (3)
Building the Better Lobster Trap
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Canada Geese (2)
Canada Goose (9)
Canvasback (3)
Canvasback, Male (2)
Carving of Great Blue Heron with Trout in Wendell H. Gilley's Workshop
Carvings and Signage of Charles Savage
Catalog of Woodcarvings and other designs by Charles Savage 1918-1970
Chickadee (2)
Child's high-button leather shoe
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
Chronometer from the Rebecca R. Douglas Schooner
Coat of Arms of State of Maine, carving
Col. Wm Hadlock sword, & Monument
Common eider relief on side of Wendell Gilley Museum building
Common Loon (2)
Composition: The Anatomy of Picture Making
Concealed shoes (early 1800s) recovered from the Parsonage chimney 2013
Connect to nature, creativity at Wendell Gilley Museum[ magazine article]
Construction Plan , Design No. 77
Cormorant (2)
Cosmopolitan Art Journal June 1857 No IV
Crest of Thomas Hodge Patterson
Cross on Flying Mountain for Mrs. Winthrop Sargent
Curtis Memorial at Asticou Terraces
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Decoy Branscom Male Eider ca 1915
Dedication of the Gilman Plaque
Doll (2)
Doll furniture with braided rug
Donald Smith Mount Desert Island High School graduation programs
Double-crested Cormorant, Pair
Down East Bird Carving Exhibit Announcement
Downeast Bird Carvings Exhibit Catalog
Drafting or drawing board ca. 1926
Drawing of Chipmunk, Beaver, and Black Bear
Drawing of lobster pot by C. Gilley
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Edward Lothrop Rand's Vasculum
Emmett Kelley Clown, sculpture
Eyeglasses (2)
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Five metal items from fireplace of GCCC parsonage house
Flag of the United States Customs Service
Folding ruler made of wood and brass
Folk Art from Mount Desert Island Collections
Framed memorial to Harry Neilson
Frederick M. son of Fred & Flora Savage (gravestone)
Frog Fountain in Kimball House Garden
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Garden fork with metal tines and wood handle
George B. Dorr Canton food service set: china plates, cups, bowls.
George B. Dorr Haviland food service set: china plates, cups, bowls.
Gerrish Hill Milliken, memorial plaque
Gilley: Portrait of a Bird Carver
Girl and B(u)oy on the Maine Coast
Goldfinch (4)
Good things from Maine : fine feathers[ magazine article]
Goose Model (8)
Great Blue Heron (4)
Green-winged Teal and Blue-winged Teal
Group of four ducks and a Canada goose
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Hall Quarry: The Little Town That Wasn't There
Hancock County Champions Trophy
Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations
Hand made fishing lines with hooks
Harris Room, sign and dedication
Hats and tobacco brick from Lewis Stanley house
Hauling the Net and Lobstering
Heron relief on side of Wendell Gilley Museum building
Herring Gull (8)
Hinckley Hardware Photographs Produced by Willis Ballard
Hitty Cranberry doll and doll house
Hitty Preble of the Cranberry Isles: A Travelling Adventure Doll
Hitty's First One Hundred Years - Rachel Field
Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments
Hooked rug with diamond pattern
Hooked rug with modified diamond pattern
Hooked Rugs C. B. Murphy Sold to Summer People
Horse Trough Memorial in Acadia National Park - a Mystery
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Ice Cream Scoop (2)
Indian Games, Toys and Pastimes of Maine and the Maritimes
Indigenous American barrel-shaped Sweetgrass Basket
Indigenous American Crafted Sweetgrass Braids
Indigenous American stone tools: 10 arrowheads, flakes, projectile points, and knife blade
Indigenous American Sweetgrass Basket
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J. J. OBrien and His Jesuit Settlement Memorial
John D. Rockefeller, Jr’s Memorial
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Karl Mellon Room, sign and dedication
King Eider (2)
Knife with wood handle and broken blade
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Large metal peavey or cant hook
Large metal pliers with broad head
Large, wooden “Hitty” carved doll
Laura Damon Cross Collection - Publications
Lawrence Beal's ration card holder
Lawrence Beal's war ration book 1 with some ration stamps
Lawrence Beal's War Ration books 1,2,3 WW II
Leather Case for Eyeglasses (2)
Letter: Belle Smallidge Knowles to Mrs. Richard Heckscher
Letter from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr. to Belton Kleberg (B. K.) Johnson, May 6, 1971
Letter from Frank S. Land to Wendell H. Gilley.
Letter from Jack Ekstrom to Fred Clark, 1993
Letter from James C. Collins to The Eider
Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Capt. Benjamin H. Rigg, Oct. 26, 1964
Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Donal C. O'Brien, Jr., May 9, 1980
Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Fred Clark, December 2, 1979
Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Fred Clark, November 17, 1978
Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Fred Clark, November 6, 1978
Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Mr. and Mrs. Foster B. Whitlock, February 19, 1982
Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Mr. and Mrs. Foster B. Whitlock, March 17, 1982
Letter to Byron Cheever from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr.
Letter to Fred Clark from Nina Gormley, February 22, 1992
Letter to Mrs. Otis D. Wolfe from Steven C. Rockefeller
Letter to Nina Gormley from Gertrude Bancroft
Letter to Nina Gormley from Norman Ashley Willock
Letter to Raymond L. Stearns from Wendell Gilley
Letter to Steven C. Rockefeller from Nina Z. Gormley, March 16, 1990
Letter to the Wendell Gilley Museum from Sonia Cohn, Apr. 4, 1983
Letter to Wendell Gilley Museum from Donald M. Fenner, August 26, 2001
Letter to Wendell Gilley Museum from John A. Silver, Sept. 9, 1986
Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Byron Cheever
Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from C. G. Wellington
Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Donal C. O'Brien, Jr. (7)
Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Goodwin J. Knight
Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from J. Edgar Hoover
Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Sherman L. Smith, November 9, 1961
Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Thomas C. Schuller
Letters to Bidding Contractors on New Museum Building
Liberty National Bank, Ellsworth, Maine
Lobby display, Bostitch Company, East Greenwich, Rhode Island, 1961
Lobster cars hauled out for winter 2001
Lobster Traps - History and Development
Louisa Vaughan Conrad Garden Room, dedication
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Maine Studies Room, dedication
Maine's Great Coast Resort: Bar Harbor and Lafayette National Park
Making a Difference, What it Takes to Make a Duck
Mallard Drake (6)
Mallard, Female (3)
Mallard Pair (2)
Man with Lobster Trap Photograph
Maul tool with iron head and hand-fashioned wood handle
Meeting of the Members of the Champlain Fund
Memorial of Champlain Discoverer of Mt. Desert, 1604-1904
Memorial to Downeast Chapter, Merchant Marines
Men Who Died for Their Country
Model boats hand-carved by Philip McLean
Model of MDI Class Sloop, Rugosa, Construction Photographs
Mounted Chelsea Clock and Barometer
Mrs. Jean Howard Wadsworth's Workshirt
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Natalie Beal's war ration book 1 with some ration stamps
Natalie Beal's War Ration books 1,2,3 WW II
Native American acorn-like sweet-grass basket
Native American basket of corn husks and sweetgrass
Native American comb or wall-pocket basket
Native American Indian maiden doll
Native American miniature sweetgrass basket (Passamaquoddy)
Native American sweetgrass basket (3)
Native American sweetgrass basket and lid
Native American sweetgrass basket with lid
Native American sweetgrass square shape
Native American sweetgrass tea-cup basket
Native American sweetgrass whisk brooms
Neighborhood House Event Tickets
Nelson - Carl Gustav (1898-1988)
New England Foundation for the Arts Guide to Programming and Services 1985-1986.
Newsclipping: “Landscape Sargent Painted Gone to make $25,000 DAM” 1936.
Nina Gormley and Wendell Gilley Museum Trustees with Whooping Cranes Sculpture
Nina Gormley with Whooping Cranes Sculpture
Northeast Harbor Jeweler Has Collected Rare Clocks For More Than 40 yrs.
Northeast Harbor Jeweler has Collected Rare Clocks for More Than Forty Years
Northeast Harbor Library Bookplate Design
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Objects of the Southwest Harbor Public Library
Oil lamp with metal base and glass globe
Old Time Tools and Toys of Needlework
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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Part of a balance weighing scale
Pemetic girls basketball team, 1936
Philip McLean (2)
Pintail, Pair (2)
Plier head tool to wrap or cut wire or barbed wire
Portrait of Abraham Lincoln with Flower Arrangment Stereograph, 1874
Postcard from Mary Ann Carroll to her Niece, Gertrude Whitmore Carroll
Postcard Showing Canada Goose Carving
Postcard showing Mallard Drake
Postcard with photograph of Hooked Rug
Potter’s Patent Paper Picture-Card Frame
Puffin relief on side of Wendell Gilley Museum building
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Ralph Stanley's Secundo Violin
Ralph Stanley's Underwood Violin
Ralph Warren Stanley's First Lion's Head Violin Scroll
Red-breasted Merganser, Female
Report on 19th-century concealed shoes and Cape Houses
Request for bids of timber by ANP
Revenue Ensign - Flag of the United States Customs Service
Richardson Family Flintlock Musket
Robert L. Smallidge with model boats
Robert R. Pyle & Orton P. Jackson Jr., plaques
Robert Smallidge Sr. and his Hand Made Gun
Robert Smallidge's Hand Made Gun
Rough Draft of Article by Fred Clark for The Mallet
Route of the Kaiser Wilhelm II to Europe
Rudolf Condon Scuptor and Rug Maker
Ruffed Grouse (3)
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Sailmaker's thimble for pushing needle through heavy canvas
Salting Herring Net Negative, 1944
Saw-whet Owl (5)
Schoolboy Basketball Highlights - SWH High and Pemetic High
Schooner on its port side at low tide
Scrapbook of Lulu Steel Alley 1940-1950s
Shoe remnants discovered in Pasonage crawlspace 2013
Sign. Fire Alarm Call Zones (2)
Silver Inlay - Hand Made Gun (11)
Sitz Bath that belonged to Moorfield Storey
Sketchbook with Pencil Drawings ca. 1960s/1970s?
Southwest Harbor Parking Ticket Form Used by Officer Woodrow Wilson Herrick
SPCA solicitation pail with stand and sign
Spotted and Solitary Sandpipers
Stern of Schooner on its port side at low tide
Steven Valleau in his workshop
Survey of Yesterday's Toys.....And Chistmas
Sword made from a swordfish bill
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The Cosmopolitan Art Journal Vol I #4
The Holy Bible. (2)
The Holy Bible (2)
The Holy Bible - Genesis through Deuteronomy.
The Holy Bible - Job through Solomon’s Song.
The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments
The twenty-second Psalm, a study by R. L. Grindle
Tiny Hitty Nameless doll by Eric Horne
Tommy Sticker: brass candle holder with metal spikes
Tremont Museum Case with toys and other recreational items
Trowel with wood handle inserted into metal trowl head
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Unusual iron, 3-pronged grappling hook
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Vintage 2 hook metal balance scale
Vintage metal canteen with lid
Vintage mystery object/tool wood and leather
Vintage Red Bucket unknown age
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Wallet inscribed: William P Prebles Property, Cranberry Isles 1836
Wallpaper on plasterboard, circular remnant
Wallpaper uncovered during renovation of Ladies Aid
Want to carve a duck? : a beginner's guide
Wayne Beals ration book 2 with some stamps and back cover
Wayne Beal's war ration book 1 no stamps left
Wayne Beal's War Ration books 1,2,3 WW II
Weir or trap license application, February 25, 1944
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 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 with Osprey - 1972
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 Official Seal of the State of Maine, 1955
Wendell H. Gilley Holding Owl Carving
Wendell H. Gilley in his workshop
Wendell H. Gilley in his Workshop
Wendell H. Gilley in his workshop - Dec. 1960
Wendell H. Gilley in his workshop - Oct. 1971
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
Woman's Literary Club Collection - Box 18
Wood Duck, Pair (2)
Wood tamper or sewing needle (unknown)
Woodcock (6)
Wooden implements recovered from GCCC parsonage house
Wooden tool with eyelet (unknown)
Wooden wedge with handle, perhaps a basket splint gauge
Worm tool: large iron corkscrew
WW II ration book 3 stamps and back cover
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Yellowlegs (2)