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50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp
… Following are excerpts of that process gleaned from past newsletters. [Scroll down to read what was entered into the … Nebraska.] It Began With a Letter Writing Campaign The WCPM newsletter urged “loyal Cather admirers” to write on behalf … and alive by using your influence?” In the winter 1972 newsletter it was noted that plans were going forward for a …
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Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index
… Miriam Mountford Aims of the WCPM p. 1 Staff p. 1 Museum News and Donors p. 1 Interesting Visitors p. 2 Nebraska … Wide Interest in Cather p. 3 Annual Conference p. 4 Acknowledgements p. 4 … Visit with Irene Rich AUTHOR: Lucia Woods p. 2 Photograph Exhibits p. 3 New Board Officers and Bequests to the …
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Serena's Album
… Richard II: “Nay, let us share thy thoughts, as thou dost ours.” The “autographic confessions” in Serena’s album span … upon Mary for Julia, the musical Harling sister, in My Ántonia , and Mary played the Beast in the production of … C. Laslette,” minister there from March to May, 1899. (The final e on his name begins to appear in records about this …
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Annotations from the Archives: A Map of the World
… research phase Image Township maps, circa 1930, Blanche Cather Ray Collection Image 1880 federal census enumerated … available online through both paid and free services, like Newspapers.com, ChroniclingAmerica.gov, Ancestry.com, … no. We'll have a map, and it will show similar information about immigrant communities. The data is more granular, even …
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Finding Aids
… available for download. Betty Kort Collection Date range: 1762-1973 Bulk dates: 1918-1943 Finding Aid created by Tracy … genealogy Burlington & Missouri River Railroad journals building records financial instruments Related Materials: … materials Notes on WCPM museum displays, historic sites, tour scripts Loose clippings about Cather, WCPM, Red Cloud …
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Annotations From the Archives: Ask-An-Archivist
… Blackman Sell in a short article for the Chicago Daily News , Cather is "pronounced to rhyme with rather, if you … fast and twice as far as something real. Did Willa Cather know Georgia O'Keeffe? Many readers of Cather's work and her … job, I also care for the museum and art collections, create exhibitions, and lead the team that maintains the historic …
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Annotations from the Archives: The End of an Era for the Chief
… from the first extant Red Cloud Chief, October 9, 1873 Volume I, No. 15, is the first surviving issue of the Red … local history or, in our case, exploring the life of Willa Cather. We know that Willa Cather held a warm place in her … a regular reader of that newspaper. Decades later as Cather Studies were just beginning, it was through those preserved …
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Press Room
… (1918), One of Ours (1922), A Lost Lady (1923), and Lucy Gayheart (1935). Even though Cather lived on the east coast …
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Annotations from the Archive: Early Magazine Days
… (March 28, 1897), with these observations at the start of Cather's early and prolific career in magazine writing and … literary tastes are, her club standing, her home, her legal studies, how she came to take them up etc. You know what I … bank he is president of. Well I did'nt mean to write you a volume, and of course nothing may come of it. But my …
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Remembering Our Fallen
… for a complete traveling schedule. The author Willa Cather, who gave her commencement speech from the Red Cloud … met him just on the edge of town, and we stopped to chat about the war news. I believe he always wanted to be a soldier. I can see …
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