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Rarely Seen Willa Cather Postcard on Exhibit

… Image Rarely Seen Willa Cather Postcard on Exhibit September 25, 2019 In the recent … Memorial collection, we were happy to run across this postcard of Willa Cather to Charles Moore. Written during …
Posted: 09/24/2019
Last Updated: 09/26/2019

Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… John Swift p. 75  Also in this issue:  Cather Project Names Electronic Projects Editor p. 54  Issue Editor's Note … TITLE: Meta Schaper Cather: [1942?] Short Letter, Big Meaning AUTHOR: Melissa Homestead TITLE: Virginia, Margaret, … In subsequent divisions the style choices may vary. Many names are listed in this index, and many have only one entry …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 01/16/2023

New Photos Join the Jack and Irma Cather Collection

… Image New Photos Join the Jack and Irma Cather Collection November 19, 2020 Throughout the year, … to light, including a John A. Bulkley portrait of teenaged Willa Cather, circa 1888. Bulkley, a Civil War veteran from … team, above, circa 1909. Printed on an uncirculated postcard, a handwritten note on the back of the card …
Posted: 11/19/2020
Last Updated: 12/28/2020

Finding Aids

… Checks from City National Bank, Lincoln   1900 Newspaper TX-50-1000-014 Newspaper Clippings About Princeton Honorary Degree     … OBJ-50-1000-016 Willa Cather     Document Tx-50-1000-017 Articles of Indenture     Document TX-50-1000-018 Jeremiah …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 11/17/2025

Annotations From the Archives: Thanksgiving in Red Cloud

… to regard this great feast day of ours as a thing that came about because of a general sentiment and through a general … Red Cloud was.” If you've ever thought of coming home (or visiting) Red Cloud over the holidays, Cather's dear old house is available for guest lodging . Historic but entirely unfussy, the Cather Second …
Posted: 11/06/2025
Last Updated: 11/07/2025

Cather's Santa Fe: A Walking Tour

… Our tour guide, Garrett Peck, will lead us on a 2 hour  Death Comes for the Archbishop  walking tour, retracing Cather's steps through …
Posted: 10/30/2025
Last Updated: 10/30/2025

Cather's Santa Fe: A Walking Tour - SOLD OUT!

… Image Cather wrote to decline a lecture request in 1925, using this La Fonda postcard Join us on the Plaza! Special Events Wednesday, Nov … visit the Cathedral on your own before joining the National Willa Cather staff for a drink and small bites nearby, …
Posted: 09/18/2023
Last Updated: 10/15/2024

Annotations from the Archive: Thanksgiving Traditions

… —from the essay, "Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle," by Willa Cather [ The Nation , September 5, 1923] Thanksgiving, as … at that time.” NOTE on ARCHIVES and IMAGE :  This whimsical postcard was sent by Willa Cather to her niece Mary Virginia …
Posted: 11/20/2019
Last Updated: 05/23/2023

Annotations from the Archive: Discovering Emanuel Prettyman

… also lived in the house, it was full of both Cather family artifacts and period historical pieces; she hosted several … the years. After her death, a great deal of Wagner’s Cather collections were donated to us in Red Cloud, including … only image of Prettyman identified. Research continues to learn more about Prettyman’s life; his military records and …
Posted: 04/23/2022
Last Updated: 05/23/2023

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