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Visions of the Prairie

… Sandpoint Magazine , Kirby began making art at the age of forty. Although the attempts to capture these mostly … formal piano instruction for seventeen years. He worked under Robert Howat of Wittenberg University of Ohio, and …
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Finding Aids

… Outgoing, Grosvenor P. Cather Grosvenor P. Cather 1905   Correspondence TEX-250-391-006 Incoming, Grosvenor P. … Willa Cather 1922 association copy Mrs. CF Cather The Troll Garden BK-50-323 Willa Cather 1905 1st printing association …
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Annotations From the Archives: Ask-An-Archivist

… country focus on educating patrons and the general public about the value of archives. It’s easy to connect the … the questions she gets most often. How do you pronounce Cather? According to Henry Blackman Sell in a short article for the Chicago Daily News , Cather is "pronounced to rhyme with rather, if you …
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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

Image Red Cloud Chief front page, December 1888 Annotations from the Archives: The End of an Era for the Chief September 3, 2024 Last week, we received the last edition of the Red Cloud Chief , a newspaper that had a 150-year history. It was Webster …
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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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Collections Policies

… Collection Materials Any publication of images from the National Willa Cather Center materials must be approved in writing and may …
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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

… cultures in desert southwest; and the pursuit of artistic success. Her work remains the subject of scholarly … importance as an American writer active in the first part of the 20th Century, but whose work and influence … House (restored in 2003). It contains an archive, museum, gallery, and study center owned and operated by the Willa …
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Annotations from the Archive: Early Magazine Days

… Image Image Annotations from the Archive: Early Magazine Days May 19, 2021 Jeanette Barbour wrote a profile, “A Woman Editor,” in the Pittsburg Press (March 28, 1897), with … woman she certainly should be mentioned among the pioneers in woman's advancement... Miss Cather is just …
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