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Finding Aids

… Finding Aids The National Willa Cather Center houses one of the nation’s largest collections of materials … author Willa Cather. Our museum and archival collections, housed in Cather's hometown of Red Cloud, Nebraska, … Hotel Sherry (Chicago, IL) Shoreham Hotel (DC) Parker House (Boston) The Beaconsfield (Boston) The Puritan …
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Annotations From the Archives: Thanksgiving in Red Cloud

… feast day was originated by a private individual, and a woman at that. Above all her other interests and duties, the … people, how invaluable would be its associations. That man of mighty proclamations first proclaimed "Thanksgiving … with her family. In a letter to Elizabeth Wolfe Huffmann, on June 13, 1945, Cather recalled her last holidays in …
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Join Our Team

… Join Our Team Career Opportunities at the National Willa Cather Center The Willa Cather Foundation—formerly the Willa … increase occupancy and restaurant customers at the Center’s lodging properties and newly opened boutique hotel. The … listings on sites such as Google Business, TripAdvisor, Visit Nebraska, etc.  Public Relations and Traditional …
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Hotel Garber Opens in Red Cloud to Bolster Tourism and Advance Willa Cather Legacy

… Garber Opens in Red Cloud to Bolster Tourism and Advance Willa Cather Legacy April 9, 2025 RED CLOUD, NE—The National Willa … made possible by gifts from many generous individuals and foundations. These private gifts helped leverage grant …
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Artist Karen Thurlow on Place and Memory

… from photographs—or both? I do both. Sometimes a photo is involved but I may add some remembered things which could be … or stenciling with no end in mind. Something usually will get my imagination going and in the end it actually is a … nothing was told to me and my imagination put the story together. Hopefully I tell the story in the way the painting …
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Historic Sites

… an American author. Willa Cather Childhood Home Built in 1879, this house was five years old when the Cather family … restored exterior finishes, but will also offer accessible tours for those with mobility limitations. “When she went … removing redundant facilities from major lines. To save the building from destruction, it was moved from its original …
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Willa Cather Biography

… of its projected fifteen in print) has established true texts for her works and, through each volume’s extensive … apparatus, established the making of and biographical contexts of each volume. Complementing the scholarly editions … and medicine. James Woodress, who published the whole text, called it "a ringing defense of scientific inquiry" …
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Collections Policies

… one form of publication, the fees are cumulative. Books: Text Illustration One time use, one country 2,000 copies or … = $400.00 10,001 or more copies = $500.00 Periodicals: Text Illustration One time use, one country Circ. 1,000 or …
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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 Director, National Willa Cather Center The Amos Fortune Forum • FREE …
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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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