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50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp

… Image 50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp The process—and celebration—of a commemorative … Following are excerpts of that process gleaned from past newsletters. [Scroll down to read what was entered into the … to hear Regional Postmaster General Clarence B. Gels speak about Willa Cather. Also in the audience were relatives of …
Posted: 09/06/2023
Last Updated: 09/07/2023

Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index Table of Contents … p. 1  Service by Volunteers p. 1  Restoration Attracts National Attention p. 1  Notable Comments p. 2  WCPM … Displays p. 1  New Equipment Renovation p. 2  Research Center p. 2  Interest in Cather p. 2  Willa Cather Merit …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 01/16/2023

Serena's Album

… is the album’s only reference to the bicycle. 16-17 Ed. M. Short Left Edward M. Short, probably in the 1890’s. Edward Marion Short was 25 … of church music. Hattie’s favorite amusement, “Jack Stories,” come from Appalachian oral tradition, tales of a …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 04/01/2026

Annotations from the Archives: A Map of the World

… and then there's the sense of understanding that you get when you surround yourself with the facts, when you just …
Posted: 03/31/2026
Last Updated: 04/01/2026

Finding Aids

… Finding Aids The National Willa Cather Center houses one of the nation’s largest collections … Related Materials: The NWCC also holds a number of bound volumes of McClure’s Magazine , Ladies Home Journal , and … children, as well as some unidentified people. Diplomas and teaching certificates, commencement program for Roscoe and …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/09/2026

Annotations From the Archives: Ask-An-Archivist

… true. Every so often, this quote makes the rounds on social media, and no matter how much I wish Cather had said it, I … O'Keeffe? Many readers of Cather's work and her biography immediately connect her with Georgia O'Keeffe—with good …
Posted: 10/15/2025
Last Updated: 10/16/2025

Annotations from the Archives: The End of an Era for the Chief

… newspapers that we were able to follow along with Red Cloud happenings, just as Cather had from her apartment in New …
Posted: 09/01/2024
Last Updated: 09/04/2024

Press Room

… life. Cather was the first American writer to use the Great Plains as a detailed setting for fiction; she taught her readers how to see the prairie-plains. She built worlds. Cather’s evocation of the American … in Cather's work—in particular  O Pioneers!  (1913),  The Song of the Lark  (1915),  My Ántonia  (1918),  One of Ours …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/25/2023

Annotations from the Archive: Early Magazine Days

… (March 28, 1897), with these observations at the start of Cather's early and prolific career in magazine writing and … literary tastes are, her club standing, her home, her legal studies, how she came to take them up etc. You know what I … bank he is president of. Well I did'nt mean to write you a volume, and of course nothing may come of it. But my …
Posted: 05/19/2021
Last Updated: 05/23/2023

Remembering Our Fallen

… began. I drove over the Campbell one day, and G. P. took a load of wheat over. I was coming back and met him just on …
Posted: 12/27/2014
Last Updated: 07/19/2022

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