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Finding Aids

… Finding Aids The National Willa Cather Center houses one of the nation’s largest collections … Fisher New York Herald Tribune 1933 Clipping TX-50-1000-054 Review of  April Twilights Pittsburg Gazette 1903 Clipping …
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National Willa Cather Center

… Image National Willa Cather Center Advancing Her Legacy The National Willa Cather … in 2017 as an arts and cultural center that serves as a living memorial to renowned writer, Willa Cather. Located in …
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Willa Cather Biography

… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather is … of scientific inquiry" which "ranges from the dawn of history to the present moment" (60). Ironically, the Chief … 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

… as she became a traveler of the world; she was down-to-earth and plain spoken, but she enjoyed the niceties that her … to indicate the most pertinent portion of the review or article. Our collections include hundreds of such clippings, … distant relatives, kindly people whom I had known in some part of the United States. . . . From this experience I …
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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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