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Finding Aids

… Miner Sherwood. Microfilm roll of Day by Day with the Utah Pioneers, 1847 . Language: The material is in English Access … Leader 12/29/1896 to 1/11/1904 Day by Day with the Utah Pioneers, 1847 1847 Willa Cather letters to Carrie Miner … for Belief" (1989), Craig Anderson (executive producer of O Pioneers! Hallmark Hall of Fame Movie, 1991), Karen …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/09/2026

National Willa Cather Center

… of America's most celebrated authors. The Center is the heart of the largest collection of nationally designated … The National Willa Cather Center opened in 2017 as an arts and cultural center that serves as a living memorial to … museum, archive, research center, classroom, bookstore, art gallery, and performing arts center. The Center occupies Red …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/21/2025

Willa Cather Biography

… he published her stories ("The Sculpter's Funeral," "Paul's Case"), but after she arrived there her contributions to the … Harbison. New York: Penguin, 1999. Hicks, Granville. "The Case Against Willa Cather." 1933. Willa Cather and      Her …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

Annotations from the Archives: Cather Press Clippings

… interesting dualities. She was intensely engaged with her small hometown, even as she became a traveler of the world; … fine clothes, the fascinating company. The Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial Collection contains even more evidence of … patrons would not like. During the sittings, Thérese Bonney photographed Cather and Bakst in the studio, a photo that …
Posted: 07/25/2023
Last Updated: 08/01/2023

Annotations from the Archives: The Library

… the Carnegie Corporation for the Red Cloud Library. Public input overwhelmingly urged city officials to accept …
Posted: 07/11/2023
Last Updated: 07/11/2023

Organization History

… Cather  is still widely used by scholars as a valuable source work for Cather’s early years. In the early 1950s, … work; the  St. Juliana Catholic Church , of the novel  My Ántonia  the  Grace Episcopal Church , which houses a pair … and the Pavelka Farmstead, the rural setting for the final scenes in  My Ántonia . A pivotal event was the 1962 …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/25/2023

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 …
Posted: 07/09/2021
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

Meet Our “New” Director of Collections and Curation: Tracy Sanford Tucker

… maintenance—just like physical archives do—or those digital files could be gone forever. At the end of the day, as …
Posted: 10/24/2022
Last Updated: 11/22/2022

Meet Our 2021 Summer Interns

… archives. The Humanities Internship at the National Willa Cather Center is funded through a collaboration between the … good ones (with Beauty and the Beast costumes and elephants walking down Red Cloud’s main street), and I enjoy reading … special projects behind the scenes. I am trained to give tours, and interacting with guests and helping them utilize …
Posted: 07/20/2021
Last Updated: 08/17/2021

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