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Collections Access & Policies

… "Publication" includes: print, electronic (online or other media), film, microfilm, or other recorded materials. … "Publication" includes print, electronic (online or other media), film, microfilm, or other recorded materials. …
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Echoes of the Archbishop

… Image Willa Cather at Mesa Verde Image Willa Cather's circa 1924 map of … Lewis’s Tall Tales of the Southwest,” by David Harrell. In Vol. 33 of the Willa Cather Newsletter & Review. pp. 4-8.  …
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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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Annotations From the Archives: Thanksgiving in Red Cloud

… niece, 1909 Annotations From the Archives: Thanksgiving in Red Cloud November 7, 2025 "There we have short, bitter … of beauty and sentiment, as spring is in the Old World." —Willa Cather,  "Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle,"   … Red Cloud was.” If you've ever thought of coming home (or visiting) Red Cloud over the holidays, Cather's dear old …
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Hotel Garber Opens in Red Cloud to Bolster Tourism and Advance Willa Cather Legacy

… An eyesore at the corner of two major intersecting highways, the Potter building had been vacant and decaying for … recalled these occasions in both her published work and private letters. Now joined with the Center’s preserved … gifts from many generous individuals and foundations. These private gifts helped leverage grant awards from the Nebraska …
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Artist Karen Thurlow on Place and Memory

… but ,as a child, I was not aware of the hardships.  We always ate well thanks to big gardens, canning, and homegrown … do art when I grew up. I was able to take some lessons from private teachers and workshops. I studied art books and did … In the 1990s, I did a lot of mural work in businesses and private homes. This gave me the opportunity to paint BIG. I …
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Historic Sites

Historic Sites Since our organization's founding as the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial, we have been at the forefront of of the preservation movement, restoring and caring for the sites that were important to Willa Cather's life and writing. “Every time I …
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Willa Cather Biography

… 2023 too, it has sponsored celebratory Cather 150 events held all over the country—Los Angeles, New York, … other places found there too: the desert southwest of  The Song of the Lark ,  The Professor's House , and  Death Comes for the …
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Willa Cather as Creator: Breaking the Mold and Carving a Place in History

… Fortune Forum Image Littleton Alston with his statue of Willa Cather at the U.S. Capitol Image Ashley Olson, Executive … as a mature artist in the prime of her career. His bronze sculpture of Cather was installed in the U.S. Capitol on …
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Willa Cather and Her Illustrators

… a path for artists to achieve nationwide recognition, in a way that gallery exhibition and private collection could not. Cather and the artists who … art, and that it is worth caring about, than in any other way.” This exhibit explores eight of Cather’s illustrators, …
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