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Serena's Album

… was made by a precocious 14-year-old signing herself “Wm. Cather M.D.” This entry by Serena’s classmate Willa Cather … theorizes that Serena came to Red Cloud to continue her studies with J. F. Curran, the very popular Superior High … photographer, of German parentage. He appears in an 1899 volume entitled Biographies and Portraits of the Progressive …
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Scott Kirby's Main Street Souvenirs

… are accompanied by a video featuring nostalgic archival images from America's past, as well as stunning photography …
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Visions of the Prairie

… and it includes chapters about local history, including the National Willa Cather Center. Join us to welcome Scott to the Red Cloud …
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Finding Aids

… tabs. Dimensions: 3 ⅛ wide x 5 ⅜ tall x ⅝” deep. Two black and white photographs. Printed and handwritten … 1891   Document TEX-250-391-035 Deed to Jasper Cather Mr. Blackburn 1779   Document  TEX-250-391-036 Deed from Jasper … Language 1894 notes throughout Lovelace, Maud Hart The Black Angels 1926 "With love from Willa at Jaffrey" written …
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Annotations From the Archives: Ask-An-Archivist

… the questions she gets most often. How do you pronounce Cather? According to Henry Blackman Sell in a short article … frequently that I keep a hard copy at home and at work. Did Willa Cather say, "Anybody can love the mountains, but it's … to Cather's Red Cloud family and friends. Willa Cather Living , by Edith Lewis, Cather's partner. Willa Cather: A …
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For Readers

… For Readers For Readers Three times a year, the  Willa Cather Review  offers a unique combination of original … organization created in 1955 that owns and operates the National Willa Cather Center and the nation's largest …
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Annotations from the Archives: The End of an Era for the Chief

… before the Yellow Pages or Google—of providers of goods and services in a country where goods and services were hard to come by.  Image Red Cloud …
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Meet our 2024 Humanities Interns!

… of their professors and didn't entirely believe they were chosen when Rachel Olsen called with the good news! Since …
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Potter Block Rehabilitation Reaches Fundraising Milestones

… for overnight stays. When developed and conjoined to the National Willa Cather Center’s Farmers and Merchants Bank next door, the …
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Press Room

…  (1918),  One of Ours  (1922),  A Lost Lady  (1923), and  Lucy Gayheart  (1935). Even though Cather lived on the east coast …
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