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Annotations from the Archives: A Map of the World
… plat books in the WCPM Collection Annotations from the Archives: A Map of the World Revisiting Webster County's … Ancestry.com, FamilySearch.org, and the National Archives, Archives.gov. We made use of all of these resources as we …
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Annotations from the Archives: The World of Willa Cather
… Annotations from the Archives: The World of Willa Cather Bennett's Book Helped Launch Cather Studies … an important anniversary: the 75th year of The World of Willa Cather , written by Mildred Bennett, a school teacher, … in the NWCC archives as he began work on a Bennett auto/biography which blends his original research and interviews …
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Annotations from the Archives: New Year, New View
… Emanuel Widen, 1886-1963), circa 1925. Annotations from the Archives: New Year, New View January 7, 2026 After the … in the neighborhood of Red Cloud, you can always book an archives tour or make an appointment for research by …
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Annotations From the Archives: Red Cloud's Christmas Traditions
… Cather Family Christmas Decorations Annotations From the Archives: Red Cloud's Christmas Traditions December 10, 2025 … and family back in Nebraska during the holidays. Our archives hold a large collection of Christmas cards that she …
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Annotations From the Archives: Thanksgiving in Red Cloud
… 1923 In November 1896, after leaving for her first job as editor of The Home Monthly in Pittsburgh , Willa Cather … to Sara Josepha Hale, who, like her, was a writer and editor of a popular ladies’ magazine. In addition to writing … tireless work to create a Thanksgiving holiday—both in her editorials and through a presidential letter-writing …
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Annotations From the Archives: Ask-An-Archivist
… 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 please." … can love the mountains, but it's takes a soul to love the prairie"? Everyone really wants this to be true. Every so …
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Annotations from the Archives: Teaching with Primary Sources
… and students examine primary sources Annotations from the Archives: Teaching with Primary Sources September 9, 2025 The collections and archives at the National Willa Cather Center have always, … Cather’s inspirations from her girlhood. Often, however, archives are presented in popular culture as sequestered …
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Annotations from the Archives: Cather in Santa Fe
… back at work in Jaffrey, New Hampshire, and wrote to her editor at The Forum , Henry Goddard Leach, before she … installment of the novel. “It cheers one a lot to have an editor feel really pleased” with the work, she wrote. Her …
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Annotations From the Archives: Red Cloud's Photographers
… Image Bicycle Races Annotations From the Archives: Red Cloud's Photographers March 6, 2025 Think …
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Annotations from the Archives: Use It Up
… as different as bankers and Boy Scouts. It addressed myriad social problems from poverty and debt to the … packages of cards like those I am sending to you. While my mother lived, she liked me to send my Christmas cards to her. But now there are very few people …
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