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New Collections Added to Refreshed Online Gallery

… Postcard Collection Have you visited our online collections portal recently? With more than 2,000 objects currently … easier and faster to navigate. Improvements to the online portal include global searches, faster results return, and …
Posted: 04/02/2026
Last Updated: 05/28/2026

Collections Access & Policies

… in all formats. Fees are subject to change, and payment must be received before digital or physical …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/28/2026

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 … frequently that I keep a hard copy at home and at work. Did Willa Cather say, "Anybody can love the mountains, but it's … That came from Louis Toothman in 1961 and was printed in a National Wildlife Federation report , though they don't …
Posted: 10/15/2025
Last Updated: 10/16/2025

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 … does a threshing machine work?" The page below, related to My Ántonia, is an example of an FAQ Sheet exercise. Not only …
Posted: 07/29/2024
Last Updated: 09/09/2025

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

Annotations from the Archives: Use It Up

… it do, Or do without. This week, the Red Cloud Opera House Gallery opens the traveling exhibit Thrift Style , a … contributions of Great Plains communities. In the first place, diet and cookery, the foundation of life, were …
Posted: 02/05/2025
Last Updated: 02/11/2025

Annotations from the Archives: A Lost Lady Debuts

… to view (and is now considered lost). Woods wrote an account of the visit in the Fall 1977 issue of the Willa …
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

… Cloud Chief front page, December 1888 Annotations from the Archives: The End of an Era for the Chief September 3, 2024 … some of the photos found there were bound for museums collections at the Webster County Historical Museum and the … Center rely upon to bolster and preserve their historic collections within the community. It also highlights the …
Posted: 09/01/2024
Last Updated: 09/04/2024

Annotations from the Archives: From a Trainman's Library

… the sounds and sensations of a working station. Image Train orders were used to coordinate all train movements Technical …
Posted: 06/28/2024
Last Updated: 07/02/2024

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