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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

… and helping readers, teachers, and students to imagine the settings of Cather’s many works set in Red Cloud. Our …
Posted: 07/29/2024
Last Updated: 09/09/2025

Annotations from the Archives: Cather in Santa Fe

… on and refine the details of the landscape and historical settings for   Death Comes for the Archbishop . A close …
Posted: 11/06/2023
Last Updated: 08/19/2025

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 …
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

… There was nothing on earth he would so gladly be as an atom in that wall of flesh and blood that rose and melted …
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

Annotations from the Archives: The Cather Family Library

… French, at the University of Nebraska Annotations from the Archives: The Cather Family Library February 6, 2024 The … Willa Cather's grandmother. While not all items from our collections have been digitized, our new searchable online collections page is making it increasingly easy to explore …
Posted: 02/05/2024
Last Updated: 02/06/2024

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