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Annotations from the Archive: Webster County Collections

… Image Image Annotations from the Archive: Webster County Collections February 25, 2022 The installation of the … is a smaller local exhibition of materials pulled from the collections of the National Willa Cather Center and the … hundred years. Included in the exhibit are thirty-seven artifacts and 118 historic photos that are visually …
Posted: 02/25/2022
Last Updated: 05/23/2023

Museum Collections Associate Wanted!

… Museum Collections Associate Wanted! December 5, 2022 Job Title: Museum Collections Associate Reports To: Director, Collections & … maintenance and preservation of museum facilities housing artifacts and art objects; conduct basic research; and …
Posted: 12/05/2022
Last Updated: 12/28/2022

National Willa Cather Center Selected to Appear in Collections Assessment for Preservation (CAP) Program

… National Willa Cather Center Selected to Appear in Collections Assessment for Preservation (CAP) Program July … in the United States selected to participate in the Collections Assessment for Preservation (CAP) program . CAP … addition of six historic properties and approximately 8,000 artifacts. These artifacts include thousands of items that …
Posted: 07/23/2020
Last Updated: 07/11/2022

Travel Through the Pages of American Literature

… Through the Pages of American Literature Discover Willa Cather and Red Cloud "I'm not exaggerating, Carrie, when I … sites and sounds that changed American literature. Take a detour from the scramble of urbanity and absorb the rolling … ADAPTIVE REUSE PROJECT Willa Cather Childhood Home & Guided Tours Experience An Author's World Willa Cather’s literary …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/20/2026

Finding Aids

… Willa Cather Center houses one of the nation’s largest collections of materials related to the life and works of … Prize-winning author Willa Cather. Our museum and archival collections, housed in Cather's hometown of Red Cloud, Nebraska, containing memorabilia, artifacts, historic photographs, art and decorative arts, …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/09/2026

Nebraska Collaborative Research Grants

… archival materials housed in UNL’s Archives and Special Collections as well as the collections of the NWCC. Scholars ranging from advanced … Lincoln, includes letters, photographs, books, and personal artifacts. Depending on availability, the NWCC may also …
Posted: 11/05/2025
Last Updated: 11/21/2025

Cather After Dark: Mourning, Medicine, and Murder

… Home, Burlington Depot, and J.L. Miner House while viewing artifacts from our museum and archival collections connected to mourning practices, workplace …
Posted: 08/18/2025
Last Updated: 10/14/2025

Emily Caroline Cather's Trunk

… PHO-4-W689-132. WCPM Collection. Willa Cather Foundation Collections & Archivesat the National Willa Cather Center in … six Cather-related historic sites, and more than 8,000 artifacts that comprise the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial … Center have been integral partners in our prior collections conservation work, specifically assisting with …
Posted: 08/26/2024
Last Updated: 10/02/2025

Annotations from the Archives: Teaching with Primary Sources

… Willa Cather. Our museum's collections rotate through our historic sites, providing context and helping readers, teachers, and … maps and oral histories, underpin the interpretation at our historic sites, and from the beginning, Red Cloud was an …
Posted: 07/29/2024
Last Updated: 09/09/2025

The Willa Cather Foundation

… for museums. Stewardship: We are good stewards of sites, collections, and charitable gifts that are entrusted to us. … a small cohort of writers; Curation of exhibits featuring artifacts from the Foundation’s collections, which include thousands of items that belonged …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/06/2025

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