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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 … Following are excerpts of that process gleaned from past newsletters. [Scroll down to read what was entered into the … to hear Regional Postmaster General Clarence B. Gels speak about Willa Cather. Also in the audience were relatives of …
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Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index
… Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index Table of … and "About Jim and Elsie" Reprints of Cather's Early Works p. 2 TITLE: A Note on The White Bear Stories AUTHOR: … Mellanee Kvasnicka p. 4 TITLE: Book Review: Approaches to Teaching Cather's My Ántonia, S. Rowsowski Editor p. 4 …
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Serena's Album
… entitled Mental Portraits , probably as a 16th birthday gift. These books, also known as autograph albums or … popular in the late 19th century, usually purchased in stationery stores rather than bookstores, and widely given as … Richard II: “Nay, let us share thy thoughts, as thou dost ours.” The “autographic confessions” in Serena’s album span …
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Annotations from the Archives: A Map of the World
… "The thesis of the work," she said," was to see if I could verify and demonstrate the effectiveness of the Burlington's … as well as obituary, marriage, and family tree data to verify the country of birth. This also brings up a … transfer section of the Red Cloud newspapers. In hopes of verifying that he was a speculator and not a settler, Tucker …
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Finding Aids
… Roscoe Cather Willa Cather Banking, taxes, and investment Health and medical Related Materials: WCPM Collection - …
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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 …
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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
… public to visit our virtual Press Room often for the latest newsworthy information about our activities, events, and announcements. Please … that follow for contact information, buzz about Cather, her ongoing relevance, links to our social media, …
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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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