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Finding Aids

… Finding Aids The National Willa Cather Center houses one of the nation’s largest collections of materials related … Bennett Book Inventory Box 17—Mementos, Photos, Gifts, Notes, including: Map of Grand Manan Drawings … Lincoln, Neb. Brooks, E.S. Historic Boys: Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times 1896 South Ward; …
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National Willa Cather Center

… arts center. The Center occupies Red Cloud’s historic “Moon Block,” an 1887 structure that was fully restored and …
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Willa Cather Biography

… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather is Nebraska's foremost citizen," wrote author and … evinced. Viola Roseboro', later a colleague of Cather's at McClure's and probably the person who brought Cather to the … tell his own story orally; having done so, she wrote his autobiography, one ironically titled  My Autobiography . It …
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Annotations from the Archives: Cather Press Clippings

… Image Willa Cather writes in New Hampshire Annotations from the Archives: Cather … fine clothes, the fascinating company. The Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial Collection contains even more evidence of … Nebraska in 1917, and in 1931, Cather was again the first woman to receive an honorary doctorate from Princeton. …
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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

… Image Organization History Advancing Her Legacy The Willa Cather Foundation (WCF) … noted:   In dedicating this Memorial to Willa Cather, great woman, great literary artist, who once was one of ours and … 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

… backgrounds, such as prairie botany and gardening skills, photography and graphic design, and you have worked as a … you remember that we were first called the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial, and so a great many of Red Cloud’s oldest … keep things—her fan mail is a great example—but living in small New York spaces, keeping must have been hard. I think …
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Meet Our 2021 Summer Interns

… THARA —I was born and raised in Nebraska (Omaha/Bennington) and as a kid I thought of my Grandma and Grandpa’s … I turned 2 (we’re twins), so my Grandma helped my Dad out a ton. My Grandpa stayed in Omaha with my Aunt Kelly who is … summer I spent time with my parents and sister in Bennington, but I’ll be moving to Lincoln after the internship. …
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