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Annotations From the Archives: Ask-An-Archivist
… frequently that I keep a hard copy at home and at work. Did Willa Cather say, "Anybody can love the mountains, but it's … sodbusters" or "early Dakota settlers" or generic "Willa Cathers" with no clue about the actual source. The closest … Georgia O'Keeffe? Many readers of Cather's work and her biography immediately connect her with Georgia O'Keeffe—with …
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Annotations from the Archives: Teaching with Primary Sources
… Detective" Educators can put these resources to use in myriad ways. Bellringers that use archival resources are … text. This cartoon , though published thirty years before My Ántonia , draws inspiration from a popular motif that … does a threshing machine work?" The page below, related to My Ántonia, is an example of an FAQ Sheet exercise. Not only …
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Annotations from the Archives: Cather in Santa Fe
… Fe 1912 City Plan: A "City Beautiful" and City Planning Document , by Harry Moul and Linda Tigges History of …
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Annotations from the Archives: Use It Up
… as different as bankers and Boy Scouts. It addressed myriad social problems from poverty and debt to the … packages of cards like those I am sending to you. While my mother lived, she liked me to send my Christmas cards to her. But now there are very few people …
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Annotations from the Archives: A Lost Lady Debuts
… amused by the fuss. In January 1925, A Lost Lady made its Nebraska debut in Red Cloud, opening to a packed Besse …
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Annotations from the Archives: Armistice Day
… National Willa Cather Center, please reach out to archivist Tracy Sanford Tucker (ttucker@willacather.org) to schedule an appointment. …
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Annotations from the Archives: The End of an Era for the Chief
… Seb,” Tucker said. Image Seb Johnson serving in Company K, Nebraska National Guard “As it turns out, he played an … rifle range. It was completed in October 1915 as the Nebraska National Guard began preparing to send men to …
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Annotations from the Archives: From a Trainman's Library
… Annotations from the Archives: From a Trainman's Library July 2, 2024 Red Cloud's … N.B. was the station master A great many books—from several collections—speak to the technical knowledge required of the … Technical bulletins and manuals are also represented in our collections. In addition to the important role these …
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Annotations from the Archives: On Reappraisal
… only tell a portion of the story, and that’s where the art comes in. Every object, every paper, is a part of a web that … . In September 1947, just a few months after Willa Cather’s death, Mildred Bennett, newly settled in Red Cloud after the … Hampshire, Willa Cather was working on “Death Comes To the Archbishop” [sic] there. I believe this was 1926. Oddly …
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Annotations from the Archives: The Cather Family Library
Image Cather included details of "The Grief of the Pasha" in her 1915 novel, The Song of the Lark. Image Willa Cather wrote her name and the year 1882 in this school text Image Charles Cather's Spanish-English dictionary from a trip to Mexico Image Elsie …
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