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Schoolhouse Enters Portfolio of Historic Structures

… Its period objects—from student desks and blackboards to maps, lamps, and a school bell—will help bring history to …
Posted: 04/02/2026
Last Updated: 04/02/2026

Annotations from the Archives: A Map of the World

… on the Webster County map, Tucker decided to keep the map simple: the printed map only represents the birth country of …
Posted: 03/31/2026
Last Updated: 04/01/2026

Finding Aids

… William Boone, nd) Box 47 Alicia Blue materials     Brockway Paper Collection Date range:  1880–1987 Bulk dates: … Cyrus the Great and Alexander the Great 1880 Wm. Cather Jr. Private Library No. 71 Akins, Zoë Interpretations: A Book of … M. Jack and Jill: A Village Story 1887 Wm. Cather Jr., Private Library No. 25 Alcott, Louisa M. Jo's Boys: And How …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/09/2026

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

… 1924 and is shown on a dated version of the 1925 map; that maps also shows fewer marked trails than Cather's. Still, …
Posted: 11/06/2023
Last Updated: 08/19/2025

Annotations from the Archives: From a Trainman's Library

… contains many items from the railroad's heyday, such as maps charting the railroad's expansion across the state, as … golden age, the schematic drawings, timetables, and maps from these manuals will become important visual …
Posted: 06/28/2024
Last Updated: 07/02/2024

Soundstitching: Sites and Sounds of Willa Cather's World

… each color to a key. Following the order of the color maps, Kite then uses the piano color scale to assign musical …
Posted: 03/15/2022
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index Table of Contents … for the Archbishop  AUTHOR: Mildred R. Bennett p. 3  TITLE: Studies of Willa Cather  AUTHOR: Charlotte S. McClure, … of Grace  AUTHOR: John J. Murphy p. 13  John J. Murphy Volume at Cather Book Shop p. 15  WCPM announces 1985 trip …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 01/16/2023

Ring in the Holiday Season in Red Cloud

… Tour of Homes from 1-4 p.m. on December 7. Tickets and maps are $10 and can be purchased at the Library beginning …
Posted: 12/29/2014
Last Updated: 07/19/2022

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