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50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp

… Image 50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp The process—and celebration—of a commemorative … Princeton. In 1944 she received the gold medal from the National Institute of Arts and Letters.” 50 Volunteers, 34 …
Posted: 09/06/2023
Last Updated: 09/07/2023

Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index Table of … Cather's Early Works p. 2  TITLE: A Note on The White Bear Stories  AUTHOR: Mildred R. Bennett p. 4  … 45 Cather as "Singing Novelist", Looking Toward a Scholarly Collected Poems p. 46 Call for Papers: Food, Drink, and …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 01/16/2023

Serena's Album

… was made by a precocious 14-year-old signing herself “Wm. Cather M.D.” This entry by Serena’s classmate Willa Cather … photographer, of German parentage. He appears in an 1899 volume entitled Biographies and Portraits of the Progressive … the coming school year; Adella L. Hurlbutt would have had teaching responsibilities as well. She was one of the two …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 04/01/2026

Annotations from the Archives: A Map of the World

… interpretive panels and photos from the Burlington Depot walls as we prepared for the building's renovation. … Easily one of the most popular features of our old Depot tour, several maps highlighted Webster County's … create the narrative for the new interpretive plan at the depot, our intention was to bring those maps back in their …
Posted: 03/31/2026
Last Updated: 04/01/2026

Finding Aids

… Webster, Beveridge Weisz, Irene Miner West, Rebecca Wiener, Annie Willard, Elisa Mary Willard, Charles W. Williams, Ruth … Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröck   bookmarks throughout; underlining throughout. "W. Cather … 1948 Document Tx-50-4000-F33 Checks for Anna Sadilek Pavelka from Willa Cather (Copies) Willa Cather 1943-1946 …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/09/2026

Annotations From the Archives: Ask-An-Archivist

… country focus on educating patrons and the general public about the value of archives. It’s easy to connect the … the questions she gets most often. How do you pronounce Cather? According to Henry Blackman Sell in a short article for the Chicago Daily News , Cather is "pronounced to rhyme with rather, if you …
Posted: 10/15/2025
Last Updated: 10/16/2025

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 …
Posted: 09/01/2024
Last Updated: 09/04/2024

Press Room

… career began with stunning success in journalism—several years as managing editor of the leading monthly magazine of … Center " Ways of Reading: On the Road With Tim Youd's 100 Novels Project, " Tulsa Kinney,  Artillery , July 12, … is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization dedicated to celebrating the work, life, and legacy of this great …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/25/2023

Annotations from the Archive: Early Magazine Days

… them up etc. You know what I want, personal matter that the newspapers dont give. Of course I will keep your name out of … an experience with the managing editor of the ‘Times’ and ‘News’ that I thought might interest you, so I'll take time … to me.’ Told me to go ahead and do some special [illegible] articles as things struck me and he'd take them. Said there …
Posted: 05/19/2021
Last Updated: 05/23/2023

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 …
Posted: 12/27/2014
Last Updated: 07/19/2022

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