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50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp

… Image 50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp The process—and … of Willa Cather’s birth; the goal was to have the first stamps offered for sale in Red Cloud on December 7, … Day of Issue stamps. Ten Red Cloud organizations and almost fifty volunteers from eleven Nebraska towns helped the …
Posted: 09/06/2023
Last Updated: 09/07/2023

Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Miriam Mountford  Title: Prototypes of Characters in My Ántonia Recognized at Spring Banquet  AUTHOR: Victor P. Hass … S. Shannon, daughter of Roscoe Cather dies p. 11  First scholarly volumes to be produced p. 37  …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 01/16/2023

Serena's Album

… the greatest folly of the 19th century. Mary Miner’s entry includes a jesting reference to riding a tricycle, but this …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 04/01/2026

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 …
Posted: 03/31/2026
Last Updated: 04/01/2026

Finding Aids

… Our museum and archival collections, housed in Cather's hometown of Red Cloud, Nebraska, containing memorabilia, … Francisco, CA Santa Barbara, CA Schenectady, NY Shepherdstown, WV Stratton, NE Washington, DC Weston, MA   Geographic … materials Notes on WCPM museum displays, historic sites, tour scripts Loose clippings about Cather, WCPM, Red Cloud …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/09/2026

Annotations From the Archives: Ask-An-Archivist

… Month, a time when archivists across the country focus on educating patrons and the general public about the value of archives. It’s easy to connect the … revolutionary partners, the French. As we start to think about America250 next year, it's time to celebrate archives! …
Posted: 10/15/2025
Last Updated: 10/16/2025

Annotations from the Archives: The End of an Era for the Chief

… and Wegmann, photographers who had studios in Red Cloud’s Moon Block (where the NWCC is located) in the late … they add to our knowledge of the Bradbrook & Wegmann Moon Block studio and expand our collection of their images. …
Posted: 09/01/2024
Last Updated: 09/04/2024

Press Room

… bloggers, and the public to visit our virtual Press Room often for the latest newsworthy information about our … Moving to Red Cloud exposed Cather to new ethnic groups and childhood experiences. Through her lifelong learning and … most of her life, she often returned to Red Cloud to visit friends and family.  For more information about Red Cloud, …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/25/2023

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 … of her future brilliant fiction. You can read more about her views on magazine writing, her years as editor, … them up etc. You know what I want, personal matter that the newspapers dont give. Of course I will keep your name out of …
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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