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| George H. Spiker Obituary Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  George H. Spiker Obituary Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Funeral Notice for George H. Spiker from LaRue Spiker Funeral Notice Folder The Angel of Peace in Loving Remembrance of George H. Spiker, Died Nov. 14, 1911 Age 5 years On Back: Copyright 1908 by H.F. Wendell & Company, Liepsie, Ohio | ||||
| Frank Sample Funeral Notice Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Frank Sample Funeral Notice Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Funeral Notice for Frank Sample from LaRue Spiker Funeral Notice Folder Frank Sample died Aug. 4, 1918 Age 85 years | |||
| LaRue Spiker Report Card Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  LaRue Spiker Report Card Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Postcard adressed to Miss LaRue Spiker, Gridley Street, Bushnell, Illinois Postmarked Minneapolis Minn. Dec. 22 at 2 PM On Back: Pre-Shakes., Drama, Grade A, Thank you From LaRue Spiker Personal Papers/Family Papers | |||
| LaRue Spiker Report Card Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  LaRue Spiker Report Card Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Postcard adressed to Miss LaRue Spiker, Bushnell, Illinois Postmarked Minneapolis Minn. Dec. 23 at 1 PM On Back: Botany, Exam 91, Grade A, Thank you From LaRue Spiker Personal Papers/Family Papers | |||
| Obituaries Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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|  Obituaries Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: John Heiliker, 91 Cranberry Is. artist and teacher died Feb. 22.He was a professor of art at Columbia for 27 years. His career included attend the Art Students League and was a member of the New York arts scene. | |||
| Donald Smith Mount Desert Island High School graduation programs Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Donald Smith Mount Desert Island High School graduation programs Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: * empty envelope with the inscription "Aunt Mildred" written in script (poor quality) * * column by R.L. Grindle entitled "Before the Drought, Tradition Regarding the Naming of Toddy Pond" *Program of the "Speaking Contest", Somesville School, May 1948; judges were Bertha Reed, Janette Hamblen and Ruby Burlock; speakers were Joyce Richardson, Jane Brown, Leota H. Black, Helen Robinson, Miriam Hews, Kathryn Kimball, Wilmer Merchant, E.E. Rexford, Robert Fernald, Annie H. Donnell, Valorie Merchant, Persis Cunningham; winners of the literary club cup are listed for 1938-1947 *xerox of the Mount Desert High School basketball team in 1935 with the trophies they won in three tourneys with a typewritten explanation and notes of the class happenings sent by Marion; there is a detachable slip to send in if alumni planned to attend the function on August 11, 1985 at the Seawall Dining Room *envelope and two name cards, one for Donald E. Smith and the other for Stuart J. Smith and class of 1930 stickers * *diploma of Stuart T. Smith from Mount Desert High School, Somesville, Maine awarded on June 6th, 1934 (this has a leather book frame that is stored separately and caused the discoloration) *excerpt from Bangor paper featuring three pictures of the boys who won honors in Mt. Desert High School; they were Donald Smith, Valedictory; Meredith Bordeaux, Salutatory; Pearl Freeman, Oration *6 page handwritten report on the"Industries of Maine" by Donald Smith *envelope addressed to C.P.L. Donald Smith from Fred H. Somes with a postal cancellation of April 3, 1945 when he was serving overseas *two page handwritten letter which was sent in the envelope referred to in the preceeding item [show more] | |||
| ANP account of weather conditions during Fire of 1947 Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| ANP account of weather conditions during Fire of 1947 Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Account of conditions | |||
| Request for bids of timber by ANP Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Request for bids of timber by ANP Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: Call for bids on salvage of timber within Acadia National Park. Appears unsuccessful. | |||
| 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 to Wendell H. Gilley from Thomas C. Schuller Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Thomas C. Schuller Wendell Gilley Museum Description: This letter asks Gilley to repair one of a pair of herons that was damaged in a move. | |
| 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. | |
| Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Capt. Benjamin H. Rigg, Oct. 26, 1964 Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Letter from Wendell H. Gilley to Capt. Benjamin H. Rigg, Oct. 26, 1964 Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Letter accompanied by a cardboard pattern of a spread tail grouse and a photograph of a belt grinder | |
| Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from C. G. Wellington Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from C. G. Wellington Wendell Gilley Museum 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. | ||
| Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Goodwin J. Knight Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Goodwin J. Knight Wendell Gilley Museum 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. | ||
| Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from J. Edgar Hoover Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from J. Edgar Hoover Wendell Gilley Museum 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. | ||
| Letter to Steven C. Rockefeller from Nina Z. Gormley, March 16, 1990 Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Letter to Steven C. Rockefeller from Nina Z. Gormley, March 16, 1990 Wendell Gilley Museum 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 | ||
| Letter to Fred Clark from Nina Gormley, February 22, 1992 Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Letter to Fred Clark from Nina Gormley, February 22, 1992 Wendell Gilley Museum 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. | ||
| Letter from Frank S. Land to Wendell H. Gilley. Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Letter from Frank S. Land to Wendell H. Gilley. Wendell Gilley Museum 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. | ||
| Eagles Wendell Gilley Museum |
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|  Eagles Wendell Gilley Museum Description: Typescript draft of a section included in The Art of Bird Carving by Wendell Gilley describing his techniques for carving eagles. | |||
| Fire Alarm Call Chart Great Harbor Maritime Museum |
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|  Fire Alarm Call Chart Great Harbor Maritime Museum | |||
| Letter: Belle Smallidge Knowles to Mrs. Richard Heckscher Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Letter: Belle Smallidge Knowles to Mrs. Richard Heckscher Northeast Harbor Library Description: Regarding Mrs. Dale and room furnishings | ||
| Rebecca's Dolls Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Rebecca's Dolls Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Carroll family mythology says that Rebecca Carroll made sixteen dolls for her grandchildren – one for each grandchild born while she was alive. Researchers have found evidence of three of the dolls and are looking for the others. | |||
| John D. Rockefeller, Jr’s Memorial Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  John D. Rockefeller, Jr’s Memorial Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| J. J. OBrien and His Jesuit Settlement Memorial Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  J. J. OBrien and His Jesuit Settlement Memorial Southwest Harbor Public Library |