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Finding Aids
… Finding Aids The National Willa Cather Center houses one of the nation’s largest collections … life and works of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Willa Cather. Our museum and archival collections, housed in … and journals, Union College, Western Literature, Prairie Schooner, etc Box 46 Cassettes and Recordings …
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National Willa Cather Center
Image National Willa Cather Center Advancing Her Legacy The National Willa Cather Center offers the opportunity to fully explore the life and legacy of one of America's most celebrated authors. The Center is the heart of the largest collection of …
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Willa Cather Biography
… Willa Cather: A Literary Life had each appeared in 1987; about that time too the era’s leading Cather critic, the … when his magazine was having difficulties with its staff in 1906, to offer her a job and bring her to New York. … that transformed her career. Building upon her solid foundation as an energetic journalist in Lincoln and …
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Annotations from the Archives: Cather Press Clippings
… Image Willa Cather writes in New Hampshire Annotations from the Archives: Cather Press Clippings August 1, 2023 As has been noted so … worker Grace Abbott, as well as Helen Keller, Jane Addams, opera singer Ernestine Schumann-Heink, and Mary E. Woolley, …
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Annotations from the Archives: The Library
… of the Auld Library and the purchase of books. Charles Cather was elected the first president of the library board. … what became of the Carnegie application. The photo of Willa Cather reading to her younger siblings is significant; … valued literature and story. Willa Cather talked often about the influences of the things she read, and she …
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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 … citizens led by Mildred R. Bennett, the first biographer of Cather. Upon moving to Red Cloud shortly after Cather’s … of her short stories. For the first twenty-five years of operations, the Foundation amassed a large museum collection …
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Virtual Author Series: Dr. Rebecca Faber
… Image Image Opera House Thursday, Nov 4, 2021 | 7pm We are excited to welcome …
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Meet Our “New” Director of Collections and Curation: Tracy Sanford Tucker
… well, along with more personal belongings. She was such a private person that I would love to know more about she and … student, Chris Wolak. My favorite collection item will always and forever be the brass and steel bloodletting lancet … perhaps in unprocessed collections or maybe in the hands of private collectors. It’s wonderful to imagine what might yet …
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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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