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National Willa Cather Center

… travel; happiness and sadness; the bitter and the sweet.   About the Exhibit Introductory Short Film About Willa Cather A new educational museum film welcomes …
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Finding Aids

… Finding Aids The National Willa Cather Center houses one of the nation’s largest collections of materials … and archival collections, housed in Cather's hometown of Red Cloud, Nebraska, containing memorabilia, artifacts, … Correspondence between Jane Pope Geske, a bookseller with Niobrara Books in Lincoln, Nebraska, and Mildred Bennett, …
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Willa Cather Biography

… own letters to researchers. These letters are held in archives throughout the country and the world and, until …
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Annotations from the Archives: Cather Press Clippings

… in New Hampshire Annotations from the Archives: Cather Press Clippings August 1, 2023 As has been noted so often … in Cather's nature. A large collection of Cather's press clippings and reviews are evidence that, though Cather … correspondence that she was a dedicated reader of her press, and that she often saved and sent home clippings for …
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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

… 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

… 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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