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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
… two more would be born in the next several years. The tiny settlement known as “Elora” — Mrs. Keifer gives it as her … of a town, established in 1882 by Mr. Keifer and another settler, and discontinued in 1891. Much of the nearby land … frequently advocated reform). Extravagant bustles and corseting were still common in the mid-1880s, but Belle Barclay …
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Scott Kirby's Main Street Souvenirs
… Prairies. These, together with new musical compositions, set the groundwork for his multi-media project “Main Street …
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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
… Finding Aids The National Willa Cather Center houses one of the nation’s largest collections of materials … author Willa Cather. Our museum and archival collections, housed in Cather's hometown of Red Cloud, Nebraska, … Hotel Sherry (Chicago, IL) Shoreham Hotel (DC) Parker House (Boston) The Beaconsfield (Boston) The Puritan …
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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!
… Sarah Pacholski (left) and Sophie Ryan at our 69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference in June Meet our 2024 Humanities … Interns! June 12, 2024 The Humanities Internship at the National Willa Cather Center offers an experiential learning …
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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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