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Annotations from the Archives: A Map of the World
… available online through both paid and free services, like Newspapers.com, ChroniclingAmerica.gov, Ancestry.com, … gaps: men and women who just couldn't be located in local newspapers, census data, or other records. Some might be … maps and the real estate transfer section of the Red Cloud newspapers. In hopes of verifying that he was a speculator …
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Annotations from the Archives: The World of Willa Cather
… in the NWCC archives as he began work on a Bennett auto/biography which blends his original research and interviews … of Willa Cather was published by Dodd, Mead. The first biography of Cather, it appeared four years after her death. …
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Annotations from the Archives: New Year, New View
… Image Annotated map of Greenwich Village, by Lew Ney (born Luther Emanuel Widen, 1886-1963), circa 1925. Annotations from the Archives: New Year, New View … Bridge and beginning a new novel, which would become O Pioneers!. A new locale was just the thing! In this …
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Annotations From the Archives: Red Cloud's Christmas Traditions
… Just as in the days of old, the gifts she selects are simple, practical, and personal—just what you might expect …
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Annotations From the Archives: Thanksgiving in Red Cloud
… . . . But our great National feast day was originated by a private individual, and a woman at that. Above all her other … in Red Cloud. What a happy time that was for me! I shall always think of the old house just as it was then—exactly as … personal artifacts or dig into Red Cloud history in a new way! …
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Annotations From the Archives: Ask-An-Archivist
… true. Every so often, this quote makes the rounds on social media, and no matter how much I wish Cather had said it, I … O'Keeffe? Many readers of Cather's work and her biography immediately connect her with Georgia O'Keeffe—with good …
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Annotations from the Archives: Teaching with Primary Sources
… Detective" Educators can put these resources to use in myriad ways. Bellringers that use archival resources are … text. This cartoon , though published thirty years before My Ántonia , draws inspiration from a popular motif that Cather …
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Annotations from the Archives: Cather in Santa Fe
… Cather's circa 1924 map of Santa Fe Annotations from the Archives: Cather in Santa Fe November 7, 2023 In the 1910s … who would like to visit the National Willa Cather Center archives, please make an appointment with archivist Tracy …
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Annotations From the Archives: Red Cloud's Photographers
… Cather's novels and short stories. A more comprehensive index to Red Cloud's photographers continues to evolve as …
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Annotations from the Archives: Use It Up
… Image Rationing Poster, United State Office of War Information, 1943 Annotations from the Archives: Use It Up February 7, 2025 Use it up, Wear it out, Make it do, Or do without. This … Cather wrote to her family, “The new Swedish edition of “O Pioneers” is one of the handsomest books I have ever seen. I …
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