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Collections Access & Policies

Collections Access & Policies The National Willa Cather Center houses the earliest Willa Cather museum collections and archives, and we continue to make new collection materials available to researchers. To access our collections, browse our Finding Aids …
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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

… Boulder, Colorado. His appearances include a segment on CBS News Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood and the Smithsonian …
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Finding Aids

… and archival collections, housed in Cather's hometown of Red Cloud, Nebraska, containing memorabilia, artifacts, … journals, and rare book collections, as well as items belonging to Willa Cather like letters, clothing, jewelry, … to explore individual objects in the collection! For a broad view of the collections, finding aids are available for …
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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 … That came from Louis Toothman in 1961 and was printed in a National Wildlife Federation report , though they don't …
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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

… from the first extant Red Cloud Chief, October 9, 1873 Volume I, No. 15, is the first surviving issue of the Red … local history or, in our case, exploring the life of Willa Cather. We know that Willa Cather held a warm place in her … a regular reader of that newspaper. Decades later as Cather Studies were just beginning, it was through those preserved …
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Meet our 2024 Humanities Interns!

… senior year of high school when her literature class read My Ántonia . Drawn in not only by Cather’s strong prose, …
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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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