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New Collections Added to Refreshed Online Gallery

… collections.willacather.org offers Cather readers numerous ways to explore our collections, and newly launched … have made it even easier and faster to navigate. Improvements to the online portal include global searches, faster … offerings or to support our digitization efforts, please contact Director of Collections and Curation, Tracy Tucker, …
Posted: 04/02/2026
Last Updated: 05/28/2026

Collections Access & Policies

… more than one form of publication, the fees are cumulative. Books: Text Illustration One time use, one country 2,000 …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/28/2026

Annotations From the Archives: Ask-An-Archivist

… general safety. I spend a lot of time in spreadsheets and databases. In my particular job, I also care for the museum …
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

… In the spring of 1926, Cather was reviewing the proofs of   My Mortal Enemy  and at the same time, finishing the writing of  Death …
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

… the World War I experience and Cather’s depictions of it in One of Ours . Wherever you went in the United States, it was … and thrift. This issue of Ladies' Home Journal is just one such example from our collections. In One of Ours, …
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

… and  Locomotive Engineering Magazine  were found in the Willa Cather Childhood Home attic and date to the Cather's … Historic Places both for its significance to Willa Cather's writing and its architectural uniqueness. If you would like …
Posted: 06/28/2024
Last Updated: 07/02/2024

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