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Conservation of Willa Cather's Attic Bedroom Wallpaper

… here, with a sloping ceiling, like my 'rose bower' in our old first house. Do you remember? I can always work best in … process and evaluate the original wallpaper (c.130 years old). They cleaned the paper on the walls and stabilized as … which, for a few pivotal years in a small and busy household of nine, provided the eldest child the solitary space …
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Finding Aids

… Douglass Cather   Document TX-50-1000-020 Boak Birth and Death Records     Document TX-50-1000-021 Receipt  James … Poems Burr McIntosh 1936     Book BK-207-023 Cather: Death Comes for the Archbishop Notes Cliff's Notes Incorporated 1965     Book …
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Childhood Home Tour

… Image Image Image Childhood Home Tour Understand Cather's Youth The Willa Cather … short walk or drive from the National Willa Cather Center. Tours last approximately 30 minutes.  Book a Tour Located at …
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Guided Seven Building Town Tour

… 1884-1904. Willa Cather describes it in great detail in The Song of the Lark and “Old Mrs. Harris.” Willa Cather’s room was upstairs …
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Annotations from the Archives: A Lost Lady Debuts

… the first of her works to be made into a movie, and a 1934 film of the same name was to be the last in Cather's … you can get a very high price for the film rights of "The Song of the Lark" I'll consent to the sale," she wrote to her editor …
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Willa Cather Childhood Home

… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home Willa Cather Childhood Home A National Historic … of the house that ended when the home opened for tours in 1967. The house was declared a National Historic …
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Guided Three Building Downtown Tour

… two permanent exhibits:  Making A Place: A Long History of Red Cloud  and  American Bittersweet: The Life and … journey from Virginia; the domestic spaces in The Song of the Lark , "Old Mrs. Harris," and 'The Best Years"  that were …
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Hommage: Willa Cather

… Hommage à trois . Each year this contest has been structured into three categories designed to honor the memory of … inspired by Willa Cather will be on display in the Red Cloud Opera House gallery at the National Willa Cather Center, May …
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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home • April 2024 Image Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens A … Cather house is vividly described in Cather's novel,  The Song of the Lark , and short stories, “Old Mrs. Harris,” and “The Best …
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Historic Sites

… Cather Pioneer Memorial, we have been at the forefront of of the preservation movement, restoring and caring for … attic bedroom is described in detail in her 1915 novel The Song of the Lark. The home was acquired by the Willa Cather Foundation …
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