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Collections Access & Policies

… Collections Access & Policies The National Willa Cather Center houses the earliest Willa Cather museum …
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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 … to live in Shenandoah, Iowa. They had a son, Fayette, born about 1891, and a daughter, Genevieve, born about 1894. J. … motto is from Pope’s “Essay on Man,” a line well-loved by newspaper writers. Mrs. Keifer’s father-in-law, J. W. …
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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

… chapters about local history, including the National Willa Cather Center. Join us to welcome Scott to the Red Cloud … House is made possible with the support of the Baldwin Foundation, Nebraska Arts Council, and Nebraska Cultural …
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Finding Aids

… Finding Aids The National Willa Cather Center houses one of the nation’s largest collections of materials … and archival collections, housed in Cather's hometown of Red Cloud, Nebraska, containing memorabilia, artifacts, … Correspondence between Jane Pope Geske, a bookseller with Niobrara Books in Lincoln, Nebraska, and Mildred Bennett, …
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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 … her with Georgia O'Keeffe—with good reason! They both visited New Mexico at the invitation of Mabel Dodge Luhan …
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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!

… Pacholski (left) and Sophie Ryan at our 69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference in June Meet our 2024 Humanities … at the National Willa Cather Center offers an experiential learning opportunity for an advanced undergraduate … Since arriving in Red Cloud, Sarah has been a very avid prairie goer, and it's been their writing sanctuary when on …
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Potter Block Rehabilitation Reaches Fundraising Milestones

… stays. When developed and conjoined to the National Willa Cather Center’s Farmers and Merchants Bank next door, the buildings will become a mixed-use facility, including gallery and exhibit areas and space for historic site tours … enjoy the museum, the historic sites, the town, the Cather Prairie, and other scenic places Cather loved. In the first …
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