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Annotations From the Archives: Ask-An-Archivist
… frequently that I keep a hard copy at home and at work. Did Willa Cather say, "Anybody can love the mountains, but it's … sodbusters" or "early Dakota settlers" or generic "Willa Cathers" with no clue about the actual source. The closest … Georgia O'Keeffe? Many readers of Cather's work and her biography immediately connect her with Georgia O'Keeffe—with …
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Annotations from the Archives: Teaching with Primary Sources
… students 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 …
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Annotations from the Archives: Cather in Santa Fe
… as “The Most Wonderful 50 Mile Square in America,” and many versions of Cather’s map exist, dating from the 1910s to the … differs slightly in the details. A collector’s dated 1925 version has many of the same details as Cather’s undated … Differences become more noticeable when comparing a 1930 version, which features the name of H[arry] H. Dorman, a …
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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 …
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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
… 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 . …
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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
… only tell a portion of the story, and that’s where the art comes in. Every object, every paper, is a part of a web that … . In September 1947, just a few months after Willa Cather’s death, Mildred Bennett, newly settled in Red Cloud after the … Hampshire, Willa Cather was working on “Death Comes To the Archbishop” [sic] there. I believe this was 1926. Oddly …
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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 …
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