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New Collections Added to Refreshed Online Gallery

… offerings or to support our digitization efforts, please contact Director of Collections and Curation, Tracy Tucker, …
Posted: 04/02/2026
Last Updated: 04/02/2026

Annotations From the Archives: Ask-An-Archivist

… Annotations From the Archives: Ask-An-Archivist October 16 is Ask-An-Archivist Day! October 16, 2025 October is American Archives Month, a time when archivists across the country … educating patrons and the general public about the value of archives. It’s easy to connect the archives to local history …
Posted: 10/15/2025
Last Updated: 10/16/2025

Annotations from the Archives: Teaching with Primary Sources

… by Willa Cather. Our Director of Education and Engagement, Rachel Olsen, can arrange for your class to take part in these activities; you can contact her at rolsen@willacather.org.   Image Area 4th graders try out …
Posted: 07/29/2024
Last Updated: 09/09/2025

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 …
Posted: 11/06/2023
Last Updated: 08/19/2025

Annotations from the Archives: Use It Up

… Costume and Textile Museum of Kansas State University, the show provides a nostalgic view into American ingenuity, … in the country and in little towns). All the neighbor women began to tell me how to make bread without white flour, … about rice bread, and oatmeal loafs, and rye loafs. All winter long they had experimented with breadstuffs. In New …
Posted: 02/05/2025
Last Updated: 02/11/2025

Annotations from the Archives: A Lost Lady Debuts

… of A Lost Lady Image A Lost Lady Opens Annotations from the Archives: A Lost Lady Debuts January 6, 2025 January 6, … around to liking her. Though the film itself is lost, the archives at the National Willa Cather Center houses a copy … related to Cather's movies, please contact director of collections Tracy Tucker at ttucker@willacather.org. …
Posted: 01/06/2025
Last Updated: 01/21/2025

Annotations from the Archives: Armistice Day

… Roll of Honor for Grosvenor P. Cather Annotations from the Archives: Armistice Day November 5, 2024 On November 11, … day when the veterans of World War I were honored, and our collections are rich with museum and archival items that … of Ladies' Home Journal is just one such example from our collections. In One of Ours, Cather wrote: "It was curious . …
Posted: 11/04/2024
Last Updated: 11/05/2024

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 …
Posted: 09/01/2024
Last Updated: 09/04/2024

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 …
Posted: 06/28/2024
Last Updated: 07/02/2024

Annotations from the Archives: On Reappraisal

… Image Grant Reynard's "Straw Stack" Annotations from the Archives: On Reappraisal August 14, 2022 The archives are … The processes used in cataloging, arranging, and caring for collections are the science; they are reproducible and … who touched the collection: not merely the subjects of the collections themselves and their families, friends, and …
Posted: 02/21/2024
Last Updated: 02/21/2024

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