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New Collections Added to Refreshed Online Gallery

New Collections Added to Refreshed Online Gallery April 2, 2026 Image Thousands of new images have been digitized from the Yost Leak Postcard Collection Have you visited our online collections portal recently? With more than 2,000 objects currently …
Posted: 04/02/2026
Last Updated: 05/28/2026

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 available to researchers. To access our collections, browse our Finding Aids …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/28/2026

Annotations From the Archives: Ask-An-Archivist

… Blackman Sell in a short article for the Chicago Daily News , Cather is "pronounced to rhyme with rather, if you …
Posted: 10/15/2025
Last Updated: 10/16/2025

Annotations from the Archives: Teaching with Primary Sources

… archives are open to anyone with research interest—and that includes students who might be making their very first … the twentieth century. The zine also features archival images of Cather, words to the original music written for …
Posted: 07/29/2024
Last Updated: 09/09/2025

Annotations from the Archives: Cather in Santa Fe

… earlier 1925 version, complete with the same typographical error in the credit line. Interestingly, Cather’s …
Posted: 11/06/2023
Last Updated: 08/19/2025

Annotations from the Archives: Use It Up

… Their utility as a vehicle for collecting or transferring goods was naturally of primary importance on the frontier. …
Posted: 02/05/2025
Last Updated: 02/11/2025

Annotations from the Archives: A Lost Lady Debuts

… career: the opening of the feature film adaptation of her 1923 novel, A Lost Lady. It was the first of her works to be … Movie." Warner Bros., in answer to this concern over the content of films, sent several executives on a nationwide … to Red Cloud characters rather than artistic merit or moral content. The Grand Island Independent noted, " From a …
Posted: 01/06/2025
Last Updated: 01/21/2025

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 …
Posted: 11/04/2024
Last Updated: 11/05/2024

Annotations from the Archives: The End of an Era for the Chief

… images. Teresa Young, director of the WCHM, received a file folder of images from her museum's opening, as well as … the early history of Red Cloud without the newspaper files to refer to!! Red Cloud and Webster County are …
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

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