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Finding Aids

… explore individual objects in the collection! For a broad view of the collections, finding aids are available for the … OBJ-50-1000-016 Willa Cather     Document Tx-50-1000-017 Articles of Indenture     Document TX-50-1000-018 Jeremiah … Pen holder     Personal objects OBJ-50-1000-060-1 Small metal purse     Personal objects OBJ-50-1000-060-2 Small …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/09/2026

National Willa Cather Center

… heart of the largest collection of nationally designated historic buildings and sites devoted to any American author. Your visit to the Center comes with the unique experience of an …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/21/2025

Willa Cather Biography

… published which have changed just how Cather is seen and understood. Two of the most prominent recent volumes are … a countryside and a people. That relationship, he knew, cannot be gone after and found; it must be long and deliberate, … The Song of the Lark  (150)—the Willa Cather who was about forty years of age was ready to do what was needed to …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

Annotations from the Archives: Cather Press Clippings

… part of the United States. . . . From this experience I learned a lesson. The better the advertising, the worse it … are open to research. To request an appointment or learn more, please contact archivist Tracy Tucker at …
Posted: 07/25/2023
Last Updated: 08/01/2023

Annotations from the Archives: The Library

… Annotations from the Archives: The Library July 11, 2023 Creating a culture of … Red Cloud did not have a public library until 1917. Though literary clubs were popular in the area, most people relied …
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

… to move to a digital collections management system, update our policies and procedures, and begin rehousing some … Some things go very quickly—a single page letter with a date? That’s straightforward. Mystery items like the lancet … having an organization and center in her name? Did she save any correspondence from others, or then “future …
Posted: 10/24/2022
Last Updated: 11/22/2022

Meet Our 2021 Summer Interns

… and helping other employees with various tasks like mail ordering, stocking books, and even watering flowers.  …
Posted: 07/20/2021
Last Updated: 08/17/2021

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