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New Collections Added to Refreshed Online Gallery
… New Collections Added to Refreshed Online Gallery April 2, 2026 … to readers and to college students who are after hands-on archives and collections experience. Digitization of the … collection, available is a primary objective. To learn more about our online offerings or to support our …
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Collections Access & Policies
… Collections Access & Policies The National Willa Cather Center houses the earliest Willa Cather museum collections and archives, and we continue to make new collection materials …
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Annotations From the Archives: Ask-An-Archivist
… frequently that I keep a hard copy at home and at work. Did Willa Cather say, "Anybody can love the mountains, but it's … sodbusters" or "early Dakota settlers" or generic "Willa Cathers" with no clue about the actual source. The closest … Georgia O'Keeffe? Many readers of Cather's work and her biography immediately connect her with Georgia O'Keeffe—with …
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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 … gain a deeper understanding of Willa Cather. Our museum's collections rotate through our historic sites, providing …
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Annotations from the Archives: Cather in Santa Fe
… Image Willa Cather's circa 1924 map of Santa Fe Annotations from the … that a pre-1924 date is a problematic fit for Cather's timeline. The Buckman Bridge was privately built and … marked trails than Cather's. Still, knowing what we do about Cather’s travels, it is possible that she picked up …
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Annotations from the Archives: Use It Up
… to the Depression-era practice of reusing flour, sugar, and feed sacks to create clothing, quilts, and other … challenging time of economic hardship and war. The reuse of feed, flour, and sugar sacks was a cost-saving and …
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Annotations from the Archives: A Lost Lady Debuts
… best sellers from the galley forms before the books even reach the public. Mrs. Keating reads 3 hundred novels a …
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Annotations from the Archives: Armistice Day
… He knew he was not the only farmer boy who wished himself tonight beside the Marne. . . . Lying still and thinking fast, … army. One's manners wouldn't matter on the Marne tonight, the night of the eighth of September, 1914. There was … the poem was written in May 1915 and published in Punch in December 1915, the poem took on a life of its own as one of …
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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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Annotations from the Archives: From a Trainman's Library
… Annotations from the Archives: From a Trainman's Library July 2, 2024 Red Cloud's … N.B. was the station master A great many books—from several collections—speak to the technical knowledge required of the … Technical bulletins and manuals are also represented in our collections. In addition to the important role these …
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