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Finding Aids
… ____________ Bulk dates: 1878-1921 Finding Aid created by Lucy Koenig and Tracy Sanford Tucker, 2023 Copyright: … Mildred Bennett Collection documents the organizational and scholarly work of the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial’s … (Copy pp. 47-72 199-200) Manuscript Tx-50-4000-F05 Lucy Gayheart Typescript (Copy pp. 22-118) Magazine …
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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
… Edition (thirteen volumes of its projected fifteen in print) has established true texts for her works and, through … best place, Red Cloud, Nebraska, such as in her novels of prairie pioneering, O Pioneers! and My Á ntonia , but … other places found there too: the desert southwest of The Song of the Lark , The Professor's House , and Death Comes …
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Annotations from the Archives: Cather Press Clippings
… Image Willa Cather writes in New Hampshire Annotations from the … turned down speaking engagements, lectures, and even club appearances, but she was urged by her publisher, Alfred … women. Alfred says one can't refuse to take a medal, no matter how little one wants it." To do so, she tells friend …
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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) was founded in 1955 by a group of … used by scholars as a valuable source work for Cather’s early years. In the early 1950s, Bennett gathered a small … museum, reflecting the settings for six of Cather’s twelve novels and many of her short stories. For the first …
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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
… Image Meet Our “New” Director of Collections and Curation: Tracy Sanford Tucker October 30, … & Curation as part of an internal restructuring. Learn more about Tracy and her new role—and what this means … move to a digital collections management system, update our policies and procedures, and begin rehousing some collection …
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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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