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New Collections Added to Refreshed Online Gallery

… to make a drive is Doctor Creighton.” Dr. Creighton was a Cather family physician. Thousands of new images have been … Collection New Collections Added to Refreshed Online Gallery April 2, 2026 Have you visited our online …
Posted: 04/02/2026
Last Updated: 04/02/2026

Annotations From the Archives: Ask-An-Archivist

… country focus on educating patrons and the general public about the value of archives. It’s easy to connect the … the questions she gets most often. How do you pronounce Cather? According to Henry 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

… examine primary sources Annotations from the Archives: Teaching with Primary Sources September 9, 2025 The collections and archives at the National Willa Cather Center have always, since our founding, played … and students to imagine the settings of Cather’s many works set in Red Cloud. Our archival materials, from letters …
Posted: 07/29/2024
Last Updated: 09/09/2025

Annotations from the Archives: Cather in Santa Fe

… Cather's circa 1924 map of Santa Fe Annotations from the Archives: Cather in Santa Fe November 7, 2023 In the 1910s … in a story for the ages. You can  explore more of our collections  digitally on our website, which is constantly … at the National Willa Cather Center Southwick Family Collections at the National Willa Cather Center Kathleen …
Posted: 11/06/2023
Last Updated: 08/19/2025

Annotations from the Archives: Use It Up

… State Office of War Information, 1943 Annotations from the Archives: Use It Up February 7, 2025 Use it up, Wear it out, … of thrifty living in the 1880s are easy to find, and in our collections, nearly every collection contains an example of … utilizing scraps and fabric from sugar and flour sacks. Our collections boast several quilts that were handmade by Anna …
Posted: 02/05/2025
Last Updated: 02/11/2025

Annotations from the Archives: A Lost Lady Debuts

… Image A Lost Lady Ad Image Pearl Keating Speaks in Des Moines Image Dorothy Farnum, screenwriter of A Lost Lady Image A Lost Lady Opens Annotations from the Archives: …
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

… 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

… the art comes in. Every object, every paper, is a part of a web that interconnects and weaves together the lives of …
Posted: 02/21/2024
Last Updated: 02/21/2024

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