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Finding Aids

… Finding Aids The National Willa Cather Center houses one of the nation’s largest collections of materials related … Nebraska, containing memorabilia, artifacts, historic photographs, art and decorative arts, journals, and rare … Pen holder     Personal objects OBJ-50-1000-060-1 Small metal purse     Personal objects OBJ-50-1000-060-2 …
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National Willa Cather Center

… the opportunity to fully explore the life and legacy of one of America's most celebrated authors. The Center is the … comes with the unique experience of an embrace from the small community where Willa Cather spent her formative … narratives that are interwoven with priceless historical photographs and artifacts. The exhibit’s name, taken from …
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Willa Cather Biography

… George Marsden, for Rinehart-Marsden Studios, Omaha, 1921. Photographic portrait of Willa Cather. Photographic portrait … 1921. Rinehart-Marsden Studios. Today Willa Cather is one of the most important American novelists of the first … matriculation requirements.) Having just arrived from a small town, she took full advantage of the capital's …
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Annotations from the Archives: Cather Press Clippings

… Image Willa Cather writes in New Hampshire Annotations from the Archives: Cather Press Clippings August 1, 2023 As has been noted so … she often saved and sent home clippings for friends and family. Occasionally, Cather adds a handwritten note to …
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Annotations from the Archives: The Library

… local organizations or simply had to purchase their own small selection of reading materials. In 1913, the new Red Cloud YMCA created a library in one of its rooms, with material donated by the P.E.O. club, … It's unclear what became of the Carnegie application. The photo of Willa Cather reading to her younger siblings is …
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Organization History

… early years. In the early 1950s, Bennett gathered a small group of Red Cloud citizens, interested individuals, … Cather, great woman, great literary artist, who once was one of ours and now belongs to the great world and to time, … Sites and the collection became known as the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial Collection. The Foundation later assumed …
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Virtual Author Series: Dr. Rebecca Faber

… to welcome Dr. Rebecca Faber to talk about her book, One Small Photo , a collection of poetry and one short story that was …
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Meet Our “New” Director of Collections and Curation: Tracy Sanford Tucker

… and plants. I think Cather liked to keep things—her fan mail is a great example—but living in small New York spaces, …
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Meet Our 2021 Summer Interns

… fixing any errors. Currently, I’m reviewing the archive’s photo collection and then digitizing them for future use. … are, unfortunately, missing. But there are some really good ones (with Beauty and the Beast costumes and elephants … I wasn’t walking with my grandparents). They lived in the small town of West Point, so I was already familiar with …
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