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New Collections Added to Refreshed Online Gallery
… been digitized from the Yost Leak Postcard Collection New Collections Added to Refreshed Online Gallery April 2, 2026 Have you visited our online collections portal recently? With more than 2,000 objects … to readers and to college students who are after hands-on archives and collections experience. Digitization of the …
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Annotations From the Archives: Ask-An-Archivist
… 16 is Ask-An-Archivist Day! October 16, 2025 October is American Archives Month, a time when archivists across the … 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 …
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Annotations from the Archives: Teaching with Primary Sources
… 150 years can be examined in close detail. Our archivist, Tracy Sanford Tucker, regularly hosts individuals and small groups for … Cather in your classroom—please reach out to archivist Tracy Tucker at ttucker@willacather.org to schedule a time …
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Annotations from the Archives: Cather in Santa Fe
… Center archives, please make an appointment with archivist Tracy Tucker, at ttucker@willacather.org. We are also looking … remain for this program. You can register online or email Tracy Tucker for details. Sources include: Letters to Henry …
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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 …
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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. …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Annotations from the Archives: On Reappraisal
… This process is underway in our collections now, as we revisit and reappraise many of the objects acquired when the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial was a nebulous new idea, yet … much rubbish and had freed me to the great and thrilling experience of drawing and painting people and places which I …
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